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CEI Summit Economic Forum Bratislava, 23 November
2005
CEI Funding Unit - Cooperating in a wider Europe
CEI experience in multilateral co-operation for
successfully promoting transnational projects in
the CEI region
Presentation by Izabela Gostisa Pasic
www.ceinet.org
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• Funding Unit created in 2004, the year of EU
  enlargement, since when the CEI encompasses
• 2 old EU Members (Italy, Austria)
• 5 new EU Members (Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia,
  Czech Republic, Poland)
• 3 EU Candidate Countries (Bulgaria, Romania,
  Croatia)
• 4 Western Balkans Countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina,
  Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia)
• 3 NIS countries (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus)

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New External EU border passing across the CEI
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CEI Funding Unit Objectives and Tasks

• Information on EU programmes
• Partner search assistance in Central and Eastern
  Europe
• Promoting CEI participation in EU projects
• Supporting non EU country participation

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Participation in EU projects an added value

• Facilitating links with authorities from Central
  and Eastern Europe
• Know-how transfer, exchange of experiences
• Disseminating project activities, contacts and
  results throughout the wide territory of CEI
• Promoting horizontally institutional links
  between those countries not directly involved in
  the project
• Promoting vertically links between
  regional/local and government authorities

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Some figures on projects
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Central European Initiative
LIST OF PROJECTS


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Central European Initiative
LIST OF PROJECTS


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Central European Initiative
LIST OF PROJECTS


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Central European Initiative
LIST OF PROJECTS


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Central European Initiative
LIST OF PROJECTS


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Conclusions

• As with other spheres of the CEI activity, the
  flexibility is the important factor CEI able to
  adapt and interpret its roles projects in
  various sectors, various roles of the CEI
• As with other instruments of CEI co-operation,
  availability of instruments (Cooperation Fund,
  Funding Unit, CEI Networks) at the disposal of
  the Member States to utilize it in the best way
  they find appropriate
• The CEI asset are its Networks, not only new
  ones (University, ST), but networks of people
  such as Working Groups for example, Network is a
  key word for co-operation

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Conclusions

• Cooperation projects at European level prepared
  and carried out by a Consortium of partners, CEI
  institutional framework ideal for comprehensive
  initiatives involving EU and non EU countries
  interesting
• CEI an area with its specific problems where
  action can better be performed jointly (e.g.
  strategic projects, planning projects, pilots, in
  transport, environment, innovation, Lisbon
  Agenda...)
• CEI experience in multilateral co-operation for
  successfully promoting transnational projects in
  the CEI region!

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Contacts
Thank you for your attention!
Lara Tassan Zanin E-mail tassanzanin_at_cei-es.org P
hone 39 040 77 86 777/ 731 Izabela Gostisa
Pasic E-mail gostisa_at_cei-es.org Phone 39 040
77 86 777/ 741