UMBRELLA - Boosting cross-border cooperation capacities of local actors in South Baltic Sea
What is the project changing?
UMBRELLA supports small local and regional organisations in the South Baltic area to initiate their active participation in cross-border cooperation.
What was the challenge?
The Interreg South Baltic Programme is still poorly available to small organisations, because of insufficient institutional and financial capacities.
What is the project creating?
UMBRELLA creates awareness raising events to address newcomers in cross-border cooperation. In order to increase skills and capacities, UMBRELLA creates trainings on participation in cross-border cooperation.
Project Outputs
UMBRELLA Moodle training platform
Project Website
Find the UMBRELLA Project Website here.
Full project description
The research shows that the South Baltic Programme (SBP) is still poorly available to small organisations, because of their insufficient institutional and financial capacities. In general among the SBP stakeholders there are still communication barriers due to lack of English language skills, lack of competences and capacities for project development and implementation, especially by small local actors. As a consequence, low-level international activity of small actors can be observed. This leads to the fact, that local community actors (especially newcomers and small organisations) are hampered in participating in cross-border cooperation projects, thus in using cross-border cooperation as an instrument for local policy development. To address these challenges, Umbrella project aims at developing know-how capacities for small local and regional organisations in the South Baltic Programme area to initiate their actively participation in the cross-border cooperation in their daily activities. To achieve this goal, project implements significantly wider approach (in comparison with the regular projects financed by the SBP within Priority Area 5), going much beyond typical scope of projects’ intervention. This is determined by a strategic decision of the partnership to address different levels of capacity building processes – from single institutional capacity of potential project partner, via micro-activities addressed to the micro organisations till strategic capacity building on the programme macro level. To ensure relevant spectrum of competences, the partnership structure covers whole geographical South Baltic region and consists of 6 Project Partners and 9 Associated Organisations representing regional authorities, macro-regional structures and scientific / training institutions, partly involved in the previous Capacity Building Project implemented in the programming period 2007-2013.
986 566,00 EUR
786 652,00 EUR
01 Jan 2018
30 Jun 2020
Name: Association of Polish Communes of Euroregion Baltic
eurobalt.org.pl
Address: Stary Rynek 25, 82-300 Elbląg
Region/Subregion: Warmińsko-Mazurskie
Country: Poland
Address: ul. Okopowa 21/27, 80-810 Gdańsk
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland
Address: Tetmajera 60, 81-406 Gdynia
Region/Subregion: Pomorskie
Country: Poland
Address: Herkaus Manto 84 LT-92294 Klaipeda
Region/Subregion: Lithuania
Country: Lithuania
Address: Strömgatan 13, 391 26 Kalmar
Region/Subregion: Kalmar län
Country: Sweden
Address: Parkvej 37, 4800 Nykøbing F
Region/Subregion: Sjælland
Country: Denmark
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