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Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy in its role as Managing Authority and Joint Secretariat for Interreg V-A Cooperation Programmes Slovenia-Hungary, Slovenia-Austria and Slovenia-Croatia delivered a training for national first-level controllers on the use of the electronic monitoring system (eMS).

More than 60 representatives of first-level control units from Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia, and of the Certifying Authority (Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Regional and Rural Development) participated in the workshop whose purpose was to improve and speed up the approval of progress reports. The training was conducted amid announcement of positive opinion by an independent Audit Authority which declared that the Managing Authority and the Certifying Authority for the Interreg V-A Cooperation Programmes Slovenia-Austria, Slovenia-Hungary and Slovenia-Croatia meet the set designation criteria during the accreditation process. 

The European Commission launched the RegioStars 2017 competition – this annual award celebrates its 10^th anniversary this year – for the most innovative regional development projects co-funded by the EU’s Structural Funds, which will be awarded on 10 October 2017 during the Week of European Regions and Cities (OPEN DAYS) in Brussels.

The Award Categories for 2017 are

1) Smart Specialisation for SME innovation

2) Energy Union: Climate action

3) Women Empowerment and Active Participation

4) Education and training

5) CityStars: Cities in Digital Transition

For the 2017 awards, the selected finalists will be invited to attend the RegioStars 2017 Awards Ceremony which will take place in October 2017 in the frame of the OPEN DAYS.

For further information and the application forms see:

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/regio-stars-awards/

The Managing Authority’s deadline for sending in the most innovative projects to the European Commission is 10 April 2017. Interested Lead Beneficiaries should submit their application preferably in English language until 5 April 2017 to the Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat via e-mail to the e-mail address: si-hu.svrk@gov.si.

In case of further questions please contact: regiostars2017@iservice-europa.eu.

In the frame of the 4th meeting of the Monitoring Committee (MC), which took place on 16 January 2017 in Gosztola Hungary, the members of the MC approved projects that were submitted within the 2nd deadline for the submission of project proposals.

In the frame of the 2nd  deadline of the Open Call, 43 project applications were submitted. At the meeting the members of the MC discussed the 34 project applications that were administratively compliant and eligible assessed for quality. At the meeting, 5 project proposals were approved, further 5 project proposals were postponed and 22 project proposals were rejected.

The ERDF Subsidy contracts are foreseen to be signed with the Lead Partners of the approved projects in March 2017.

Within the Priority axis 1, 4 projects in the total value of 5.425.400,89 EUR ERDF were approved, namely:

• GO IN NATURE
• IronCurtainCycling
• ESCAPE
• Guide2Visit

Within the Priority axis 2, 1 project in the value of 349.829,11 EUR ERDF was approved, namely:

• Right Profession II

Within the first and second deadline of the Open Call, funds in the amount of approx. 6,6 million EUR ERDF or about 45% of all available programme funds shell be contracted.

Decisions of the Monitoring Committee can be found here.

The Managing Authority and Joint Secretariat are wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2017!