Open Society Club in Rousse has already collected 200 profile questionnaires from companies and organizations in the cross-border area Bulgaria - Romania, based on which the interactive Internet network will be set up. The latter is being developed under the BRAVO project - Bulgarian-Romanian Actions for Viable Organizations.
The project aims at assisting the process of local businesses and organizations’ needs identification, at suggesting possible solutions to common challenges, at evaluating the cross-border resources, at expanding the means of funding and at setting up effective partnerships in the districts of Vidin, Vratsa, Montana, Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven, Rousse, Silistra and Dobrich and in Romania: Mehadintsi, Olt, Dolge, Teleorman, Calarasi, Gurgue and Konstantsa.
The next project stage will get together 100 experienced organizations from the whole cross-border area to participate in six Forum meetings. The latter will be held in the cities of Rousse, Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria and Gurgue, Calarasi and Kraiova, Romania.
The BRAVO project is funded by the 2004 PHARE Cross-Border Cooperation Program between Bulgaria and Romania. Its duration is 12 months and the total project amounts to 25 433 EUR, 15% of which is project partners’ own contribution. These partners include: the Open Society Club - Rousse and the Bulgarian-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The main activities include:
- Information campaign to encourage the participation of 100 organizations from the border region in the project.
- Conducting of 6 Forum meetings (3 in Bulgaria and 3 in Romania), gathering the selected organizations. The participants will be introduced to the Bulgaria-Romania strategic program documents and will work in groups to jointly brainstorm project ideas.
- Setting up of an interactive partners’ Internet network. It will contain profiles of all the project participants and will secure reliable data search, based on preliminary set indicators.
- Elaboration of analytical report on the project ideas, discussed during the Forum meetings as well as description of the civil society identified problems and needs.
- Promotional activities.
Setting up of an interactive partners’ Internet network is one of the five activities, which are being implemented under the BRAVO project. The functioning of the network will be sustained by the Open Society Club - Rousse. Such an asset as the network will significantly contribute to establishing contacts and partnerships between the institutions in both countries even after the PHARE Program ends up.
Open Society Club - Rousse
78 Borissova Str.
Rousse
bl. Boris I
7012 Bulgaria
Tel./Fax: (++ 359 82) 822773
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http://www.oscrousse.org/programs/bravo/bravo_info.htm
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