Regional Development Agency of Slavonia and Baranja

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Organizzazione tipo
Public local/regional authority
Descrizione:
Regional Development Agency of Slavonia and Baranja is non-profit ltd founded by local and regional authorities – City of Osijek and Osijek-Baranja County with an aim of fostering development and providing assistance to its founders in the area of EU funding opportunities. Vision of the Agency is to be the link between public, scientific, private and civil sector in building up of strategic partnership in application and implementation of projects that contribute to rising of life standard on the territory of Slavonia and Baranja. The Agency is also certified “development coordinator” for Osijek-Baranja County (certified by Croatian Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds) providing assistance to more than 40 cities and municipalities of the territory. Agency has a lot of experience in organizing international events, workshops, educations, seminars, etc. and has used those events to create cross-border and transnational networks for future cooperation. Staff team is composed of variety of experts with long term experience in conceiving and successfully implementing, among others, projects related to sustainable development.

RDA conducted 39 projects funded through different EU programmes and funds as a leader or partner. The projects were mostly dealing with activities in the business sector (SMEs, crafts, family farming), tourism sector, sustainable development, energy efficiency and renewables’, social inclusion and promotion of employment and sustainable jobs. Some of the relevant programmes are:

EFRD, ESF, IPA CBC Hungary-Crotia, IPA CBC Croatia-Serbia, Interreg Adriatico, IPA MED, IPARD, IPA Info, Erasmus +, etc. Among this, Regional Development Agency of Slavonia and Baranja has previous experience in applying for Europe for Citizens, twice, as a partner for the programme funding. First time, unfortunately, the proposal failed.

In second round, when RDA was technical support to the Erdut municipality in project submission, which was considered as appropriate partner, the proposal passed, and the implementation of that project started in October last year with main event to be organized in October, this year.