The request is especially for investments in trans-border infrastructure serving transport, communications, the environment, business, tourism, research, healthcare and common risk prevention, says a press release by the ministry.
Eligible beneficiaries are organizations acting in the public interest (state institutions, local authorities, non-profit organizations, chambers of commerce) and operating in the program’s eligible zone: Timis, Arad, Bihor, Satu Mare, Csongrad, Bekes, Hajdu-Bihar, Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg.
The projects must be run in partnership by organizations on either side of the border. Selected operations will receive financing from the European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund, along with national co-financing from the two countries.
The deadline for project submission is January 31, 2012.