This year’s call for tenders of the Small Project Fund closed on November 15, 2023. The fund continued to focus on building mutual trust, helping the communities living in the Rába-Duna-Vág EGTC area to develop strong relationships and successfully implement cooperation. Supported initiatives included cultural festivals, sports events, professional events and children’s and youth camps.
Rába-Duna-Vág EGTC held the final conference of the Small Project Fund in Šamorín on 19 June 2023.
At the end of 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade launched a call for proposals to support the operational and project funding activities of the European Groupings for Territorial Cooperation in 2023. The available funding was HUF 170 million, of which a maximum of HUF 17 million per applicant could be awarded.
The action plan of the Rába-Danube-Vág EGTC, called Food industry (“Cooperation of food industry, scientific and professional institutes to increase rural employment ”), aims to develop the local manufacturing industry and the agricultural sector with an ERDF support of EUR 2,343,334.85.
The work carried out by the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation, which bears the names of the three rivers, was one of the main topics of the 5th Danube Conference in the Star Fortress (Csillagerőd) in South Komárom.
The Rába-Duna-Vág Limited Liability European Territorial Cooperation was established in 2011 as an autonomous, non-profit organisation composed of local authorities with legal personality. The primary task of the Cooperation is to implement cooperation programmes in the administrative territory of its members and realize programmes and projects through other EU funding mechanism.
The main purpose of the RDV EGTC is to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion in the area of operation; to promote cross-border regional cooperation by the various development axes and to create a permanent institutional structure covering the entire Hungarian-Slovak Danube area. The RDV EGTC is dedicated to support every initiative that can draw the attention of the world to the region. The most important aspect of successful cross-border cooperation is that people accept and understand each other and they are able to continue to work together.
The RDV EGTC Monitoring Committee of the Small Project Fund launched a written vote on 11 January 2022, to summarise and approve the order of the submitted proposals for the call SKHU/WETA/2101 (3rd November 2021 – 3rd December 2021).
On 9 and 10 November 2021, Rába-Danube-Váh EGTC held an online Information Day in Hungarian and Slovakian, where a new call for proposals for improving cross-border cooperation between public institutions and people living in border areas under Priority Axis 4 (SKHU/WETA/2101) was presented.
The Georgia project focuses on developing and improving the social and business ecosystem of enterprises at the regional level. The goal is to support local entrepreneurs by building a network of local stakeholders based on the principles of local economic development and regional branding. Funding is provided on the basis of the experience of the Visegrad countries.