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Association of Polish Communes of Euroregion Baltic (APCEB)

Plans and actions 2017

Association of Polish Communes of Euroregion Baltic (APCEB) Hässleholm. Sweden 31.01-01.02. 2017

www.eurobalt.org.pl

• 1. About us
• 2. Description of APCEB
• 3. Aims, Structure, Cooperation
• 4. Work Plan
• 5. ERB Prjects
• 6. Partner Search
• Association of Polish Communes of Euroregion Baltic (APCEB) Hässleholm. Sweden 31.01-01.02. 2017

In brief about us…

Non-profit cross-border cooperation organisation from Poland with almost 42 members municipalities and communes of Pomorskie and Warmia-Mazury voivodships (including Elbląg, Gdańsk, Olsztyn, Słupsk, Gdynia)

In brief about us…

17.12.1997 – establishment of The Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic (APCEB) Malbork Feb. 1998 - One of the signatory of the Agreement of establishment of the Euroregion Baltic

The aim of the APCEB:

Is work to improve the living conditions of the people living in the area

• f the Association, with a special focus on border areas.

Association structure:

General Assembly

• f Members of

Association

Board of Association Revision Committee Secretariat of Association Structure is standard for NGO according to polish law. The authorities of the Association are: The General Assembly of Delegates;Board of The Association; Revision Committee;

Cooperation:

• ERB - Euroregion Baltic was established in February 1998 and is an
• rganization based on cooperation, politically strong and well anchored

in the south-eastern part of the Baltic Sea Region, consisting of eight regions of Denmark, Lithuania, Polish, Russian and Swedish.

• IPS - Since the end of the 2015 we are hosting International Permanent

Secretariat is the administrative body of the Euroregion, which is responsible for the daily management and coordination of cooperation within the Euroregion

• The development of the ERB as

an organization of design-

• riented concrete results;
• Cooperation on youth issues
• Blue and green growth and

especially Water Cooperation

• Tourism network - Hidden

Treasures of Powiśle

• Social policy

Work Plan 2017

• ERB Secretariats online and f2f meetings (Gdańsk
• 23-24.01.2017);
• Preparations for the 20th anniversary of the ERB

(Europe for citizens);

• Development of cooperation with the use of the

South Baltic Programme - Organising joint activities with other BSR organisations such as UBC, BSSSC, CPMR, BDF, CBSS ;

• Youth policy in the Youth Council of ERB and

design of development LYC SB project into new project;

• Water issues in the framework of the Watrer

Core Group cooperating with ERB water Group

Bureau and Annual Stakeholder Forum ERB Kalmar 6-7 February 2017.

ERB Actions:

• Youth seminar "Nothing about us

without us„ Forum SUERMB November 8, 2016, Stockholm

• Workshop - Participation of Young -

workshop for authorities, carers and members of the Youth Councils of Cities and Municipalities of APCEB

• Final Seminar of LYC SB seed money

project

• Project for youngsters enabling

participation in Joint conference in Berlin during the Forum SUERMB in 2017 Youth issues

• Created a network water oriented
• rganisations, NGO, specialists,

municipal employees on water issues;

• Gdansk Water and Sanitary

Infrastructure (GIWK) as a representative of APCEB in cooperation in the framework of ERB Water Group;

• Joint ideas of the water projects

Development of Water Task Force by ABCEB

The result of the work is a rich offer and network presented by actors in the field of crafts, tourism, catering, hotel services, active forms of leisure (based on horse riding, water sports), castle Three groups of subjects:

• APCEB
• Government and municipal employees of the

entities forming a working group Dzierzgońską

• Entities from the creative culture of the area

Dzierzgon, Malbork, Sztuskie Pole, Mikolajki Pomorskie, Rychliki, Zalewo (10 organisations and still growing)

Development of tourism network - Hidden Treasures of Powiśle

Development of Cross-border tourism network - Hidden Treasures of Powiśle – study visit

Projects finished and in realization:

• LYC SB
• CASYPOT (JPS)

LYC SB – APCEB as a Lead Partner

Seed money project

• Realization period of LYC SB: 1.09.2016-

31.01.2017

• Outcome of the current project: a draft of a

larger application for the Interreg South Baltic Programme which will be devoted to youth participation and development of civil society in the South Baltic area by building a network of cooperation actors (partners) working to enable young people’s involvement in decision-making processes at a local level.

PARTNER SEARCH

Project within the framework of the Interreg V-A Poland – Denmark – Germany – Lithuania – Sweden (South Baltic) Programme 2014-2020 Programme Priority: 5 – Increasing the possibilities cooperation with local actors in the South Baltic area for the growth of blue and green Specific objective: 5 - Improve the ability to work with local actors of the South Baltic area through participation in cross-border networks Currently looking partners in: Denmark – Regional Municipality of Bornholm and Region Zealand (subregions: Østsjælland, Vest- og Sydsjælland); Germany – districts (Landkreise) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Nordwestmecklenburg, Rostock, Vorpommern-Rügen, Vorpommern-Greifswald and district-free city (kreisfreie Stadt): Rostock; Sweden – Skane lan, Blekinge lan; Kalmar lan, Kronobergs lan.

PARTNER SEARCH

The project to be generated under the Interreg South Baltic Programme aims at increasing the impact of youth civic participation. Project objectives:

• To contribute to response to new challenges of the 21st century (such as

urban society, information society);

• To increase young people’s awareness of all forms of participation in society;
• To enable local and regional authorities with guidelines for how to conduct

policies affecting young people in a number of areas;

• Implementing tools and improving institutional conditions for furthering

young people’s participation.

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CaSYPoT – ERB as a Project Partner (IPS)

• Developing the potential of the strategic

youth policy and transnational cooperation in ERB

• Youth policy based on knowledge
• Polling schoolchildren
• Taking into account the needs of young

people in local development strategies

• Pilot cities - Bartoszyce and Slupsk

Projects Submitted in 2016:

• RUBY
• SUWMAB
• CTCC
• ARK Pomerania
• SB MNM

RUBY – Rural Mobility (Interreg Central Europe)

The project is based on the idea of the development of tourist routes with the use of slow tourism - concentration on operations in accordance with the harmony of nature, in the composition

• f

which will include a representatives of partners from countries of Central Europe. Through the project the partners involved agree to take significant steps in the use of tourism intermodal (combining different modes of transport)

SUWMAB (Interreg Baltic Sea Region)

Project will promote the use of ecological treatment wetlands (TW) and prove that they are both economic and effective in terms of pollutant removal (organic matter, nutrients and certain persistent organic pollutants (POPs)) from wastewater.

• Project is going to fill the knowledge gaps

about TW performance both on science level and on the local municipality level

• Small-scale TWs (<50 Person Equivalent

(PE)) for complete treatment of domestic wastewater,

• Middle-scale TWs (<10 000 PE) for

polishing stages of municipal wastewater.

INTERREG SOUTH BLTIC PROJECTS

• APCEB acting as a Project Partner

CTCC - The project aims to improving networking capacity and level of information in both blue and green enterprises in the South Baltic Region through increased and strengthened cooperation with cultural and creative industries. ARK Pomerania - The project focusses on improving the innovation capacity of rural SMEs to increase the part of new products and services based on old Pomeranian domestic breeds. SB MNM - By bringing together new-comer local actors, in cooperation by creating specific cluster focusing centres, which operate non-commercial cinemas, and in particular cinemas that are not multiplexes cinema institutions.

Future projects in development:

• Youth civic participation project (project developed under the seed

money – LYC SB) - promoting the role of young people in the development of a democratic society, in particular in local and regional public life

• Friendly House - the modern green buildings green technology

sectors based on vast natural resources, incl. renewables.

• Water project possibility - project in the field of groundwater

monitoring, Assessment of the dynamics and quality of groundwater

Stowarzyszenie Gmin RP Euroregion Bałtyk Association of Polish Communes of Euroregion Baltic

• ul. Stary Rynek 25

82-300 Elbląg Tel: +48 55 611 20 00 Fax: +48 55 611 20 01 Email: sekel@eurobalt.org.pl www.eurobalt.org.pl