Survey: need for small-scale Estonian Latvian cooperation - - PDF document

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Survey:

need for small-scale Estonian – Latvian cooperation projects

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Small-scale project

u Budget up to 50 000 EUR u Simple application and reporting 2

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Small-scale projects in EstLat Programme

u 2004-2006: small projects are welcome u 2007-2013: small projects are welcome u 2014-2020: small projects are not financed u 2021-2027: ??? 3

Survey

u April-May 2019 in Latvian and Estonian u 75 respondents (44 from Latvia, 31 from Estonia) u 13 (7 Latvian, 6 Estonian) of the 14 border

municipalities answered

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1 key question

u Under which topics would it be most realistic and

necessary to carry out Estonian – Latvian small- scale cooperation projects in your community/school/municipality?

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Municipal government 38% Development centre 3% School/kindergarten, 14% Culture house 11% Youth center 8% Library 7% SME 5% Museum 4% Tourism Information Centre, 3% Local people/other 7%

Respondents by occupation, n=75

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Importance of a cross-border cooperation topic (% of repondents, who mentioned the topic), n=75

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Conclusions/recommendations

u Border municipalities want to run small-scale

projects

u Chance to re-inforce or re-animate grass-root

cooperation

u Pre-requisite: brave use of simplifications u Up to 10% of the programme funds for small-

scale projects

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