Contracting Parties
The EUSAIR FACILITY POINT project is contracted between:
• Emilia-Romagna Region, represented by the General Directorate for Resources, Europe, Innovation, and Institutions (Managing Authority - MA) of the Interreg VI-B IPA Adriatic Ionian Programme (IPA ADRION), involving Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, San Marino, Serbia, and Slovenia.
And
• Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development of the Republic of Slovenia, acting as the Lead Partner under Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1059.
The Ministry of European Integration of the Republic of Serbia participates as a project partner, actively contributing to effective and efficient functioning of EUSAIR governance structures and implementation of the Strategy and Action Plan.
Project Value
• Total project budget: €7,872,900.00
• Interreg fund contribution: € 6,336.750.00 (80,50%)
• Ministry of European Integration budget: €525,050.00
• Interreg fund contribution for MEI: €446,292.50 (85%)
Project Objectives and Expected Results
The overall project objective is to facilitate the coordination, communication and implementation of EUSAIR by enhancing the institutional capacity of EUSAIR governance structures, fostering cross-pillar cooperation, increasing the visibility of EUSAIR and by monitoring and evaluating the progress of implementation of joint priorities.
The project main outputs:
- Facility Point network comprises 11 public institutions from national, regional and local level from 10 EUSAIR participating countries providing effective and quality administrative, operational and content support to the EUSAIR governance structures.
- Functional EUSAIR governance structures. The FP facilitates effective functioning of the EUSAIR Governing Board, Thematic Steering Groups and the Youth Council.
- EUSAIR macro regional exchange and cooperation. The Facility Point partners bring together macro-region's stakeholders to exchange on policies and practices related to the implementation of the Strategy and Action Plan, and to foster macro-regional cooperation and innovation.
- EUSAIR Communication actions are produced to foster effective collaboration of the EUSAIR governance structures with different EUSAIR target groups and to improve external communication on the EUSAIR achievements.
- FACILITY POINT capacity building comprises a range of capacity building actions to strengthen the capacity of key implementers for informed decision-making.
- EUSAIR monitoring and evaluation system supports the EUSAIR governance structures in monitoring of the Strategy implementation and serves as a tool for collecting lessons learned for steering future implementation.
The project Facility Point 2023-2027 is a follow-up of the Facility Point 2016-2023 and it was designed considering key results, experience and lessons learned from the implementation of the Facility Point strategic project in the period 2016-2023 as well as recent developments related to the implementation of the EUSAIR and its Action Plan.
Implementation Period
The project will be implemented from September 1, 2023, to December 31, 2027.
More information can be found at the following links:
Project "EUSAIR FACILITY POINT": https://facilitypoint.interreg-ipa-adrion.eu/,
The European Union Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR): http://www.adriatic-ionian.eu/,
Interreg IPA Adrion Programme: https://www.interreg-ipa-adrion.eu/.
