The Flemish cooperation program with Romania

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IMISInfrastruture managementInformation System
forOradea city in Romania

• The Flemish cooperation program with Romania
• Dirk Van der Stede
• President and CEO
• HEMMIS n.v.
• Oradea, November 18th 2005

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AGENDA

• Flanders in Belgium
• Flanders Administration Foreign Affairs
• Fund Flanders CE-Europe
• HEMMIS within Flanders CE-Europe
• ... the future

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Flanders and EC-Europe
HEMMIS
2 hours
2 hours

• Gent

1 hour
2 hours
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Flanders in Belgium

• 3 regions / 3 communities
• regionilized matters
• Education
• Infrastructure
• Agriculture
• Science and technological innovation
• (Environment and nature, Mobility, Economy,
  Labour, Tourism, Culture, Sports and media,
  Finance and budget, Land use, Housing, Monuments
  and Landscapes)
• Foreign policy

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Flanders Foreign Policy Administration

• Resposibilities and tasks
• Foreign policy and European matters
• Development agreements
• Remark this includes tasks regarding
• PHARE, TACIS, MEDA and INTERREG
• Bi-lateral agreements
• Flanders CE-Europe Fund

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Co-operation programme with Central en Eastern
Europe

• Since 1994 Flanders offers co-financing to
  project were a cooperation is established between
  a Flemish promoter and an organisation in one of
  the CEEC countries
• The priorities and the eligible countries changed
  from year to year and are based on bilateral
  agreements
• Policy for 2005 based on 3 Pillars
• pillar I post-accession model co-operation with
  the new member states
• pillar II pre-accession support for Bulgaria,
  Romania and Croatia
• pillar III support to the new neighbours (in
  2005 only Ukraine).

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Co-operation programme with Romania in 2005

• Budget 700.000
• Support to projects with focus on the adoption of
  the acquis communautaire
• promotion activities (cross-sectoral tourism,
  culture, science, language, ...)
• stimulating twinnings among cities
• co-financing Interreg projects
• Procedure
• Flemish promotor submits application form
• Evaluation by the Flemish Government
• Selection in joint commission
• 2006 ???

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HEMMIS within Flanders CE-Europe

• IT for EHSQ
• (Information Technology)
  (Environment, Health, Safety Quality)
• Since 1990
• from data to information and decision
• Projects
• Products
• EMAServer (Environmental Management System)
• WEST (modelling and simulation)
• Dataloggers

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the future

• Extension IMIS with new OMAP proposal (Oradea
  Metropolitan Area Traffic Planning) ???
• New proposals for 2006 ???
• Others
• Interreg

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HEMMIS and CE-Europe
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