2018-08-30 :: INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020: Russian National Sub-Committee Meeting

On September 30, the Russian National Sub-Committee meeting within the INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 was held at the Leontief Centre Conference Hall in St. Petersburg.

The meeting aimed to consider 37 third call project applications with the Russian participation. Assessment criteria included the contribution of expected results to development of the regions, an alignment with the strategic objectives for development of the regions and the North-West Federal District, the readiness of Russian partners to participate in a particular project, as well as the quality assessment criteria (1, 2a, 2b, 3), proposed by the Programme’s Joint Secretariat. Based on the discussion and internal rating of RNSC, 28 project applications out of 37 have been included in the official list of applications, supported by the Russian side. The list will be forwarded to the Joint Secretariat and, along with the internal rating of RNSC, will provide the basis for adopting a position of the Russian delegation at the Monitoring Committee meeting during the discussion and selection of projects for funding. Russian project partners are expected to receive Russian funding.

Igor Kapyrin, Deputy Director of Department of European Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Anna Popova, Deputy Director of Department of Development and Regulation of Foreign-Economic Activity, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, delivered opening remarks. The meeting was chaired by Andrey Mikheev, Co-Chairman of RNSC, Head of the State Committee of the Pskov Region for Economic Development and Investment Policy.

Irina Karelina is the Executive Secretary of RNSC and a member of the Russian delegation to the Monitoring Committee.

Read more on the RNSC website: http://www.rnsc.leontief-centre.ru/
 

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