Project information

Together for an cross-border competitiveness and economical cooperation – HURO/0901/232/2.1.2

Partners:

Solicitant:Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Agriculture Arad, Romania

Partner 1:Dél-Európai Együttmuködések Fejlesztéséért Szolgáltató Közhasznú Nonprofit Korlátolt Felelosségu Társaság, Ungaria (DEEF)

Project Duration: 12 months

General Objective:

Promoting and supporting cross-border cooperation between Romanian and Hungarian partners, supporting the improvement of mutual economic relations.

Specific Objectives:

1. Assessing the current state of economic relations through a Market study that will provide the needs and opportunities for companies
2. Creating the means to develop sustainable business relations and CBC business projects

Target group:

The direct beneficiaries of the project are the business environment in the Arad - Csongrad border area.

The indirect beneficiaries of the project will be: the businessmen in the Arad- Csongrad, beneficiaries of modern tools created in the project - 2000 recipients of the web portal; SMEs and the communities in the border area, who will benefit of long-term development of business in the area of project progress.

Activities

A1 – Project management

AIM: Guarantee sound project management, smooth implementations of activities and good reporting to the Secretariat.

A1.1 Management and coordination
A1.2 Financial management
A1.3 External evaluation

A2 – Communication activities

AIM: Support the dissemination of the project activities, contributing to the continuity of project activities

A2.1 Launching conference
A2.2 Website and logo
A2.3 Elaboration of informative materials
A2.4 Closing conference

A3 – Market study on the business environmen

AIM: Develop an analysis of the economic reality of the border region, to determine the business needs and opportunities and to identify potential areas of CB Cooperation. This Report will be making an observation of the economic territory for economic information that is reliable and will be useful for the development of the business environment.

A3.1 Elaboration of a questionnaire and interviews / sending/receiving the questionnaires / a database of enterprises
A3.2 Analysing the data / drawing a draft report
A3.3 Writing out the report

A4 – Cross Border Business Forum (CBusinessForum)

AIM: Become an instrument to boost the business cooperation in both sides of the border.

A4.1 Launching Awareness Seminar of the CBusinessFORUM
A4.2 Making a catalogue to promote products / services of the local border
A4.3 Organising a cross-border business fair
A4.4 Transferring the project - Round table with other regional CCI

Indicators:

• 2 dissemination events (200 participants)
• 800 informative brochures
• 2 online newsletters
• 1 market study (100 copies)
• 1 Awareness Seminar – CBusinessFORUM (100 participants)
• 1 Promotional catalogue (100 copies)
• 30 companies at the business fair
• 10 participants at the Round Table