BULGARIAN MUNICIPALITIES COMPETENT PARTICIPANTS IN THE UTILIZATION OF EU FUNDS PROJECT

Implemented with the Financial Support of the Open Society Foundation Sofia

The project aims at improving the absorption capacity of municipalities in the process of utilization of pre-accession and structural EU funds, through strengthening the professional skills and knowledge of municipal officials. Long-term module training related to the establishment of a municipal development policy, as well as the pre-accession EU financial instruments have been developed and schedules within the project framework. Through these activities will be enhanced the dissemination of successful know-how and experience of other European countries and will stabilized the potential of two regional associations of municipalities to provide expert assistance to their members. The main beneficiaries under the project are municipal and regional experts, representatives of regional associations and municipalities and the Committee for Economic and Social Cohesion (CESC) of North-East Planning Region.

For contact:

Marina Dimova,

Project Coordinator

Tel.: (+359 2) 9434422

e-mail: [email protected]