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

12/5/19 Survey: need for small-scale Estonian – Latvian cooperation projects 1 Small-scale project u Budget up to 50 000 EUR u Simple application and reporting 2 1

12/5/19 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 4 2

12/5/19 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? 5 6 3

12/5/19 Respondents by occupation, n=75 Local people/other Tourism Information Centre, 3% 7% Museum 4% SME 5% Municipal government 38% Library 7% Youth center 8% Development centre Culture house 3% 11% School/kindergarten, 14% 7 Importance of a cross-border cooperation topic 6 0% 52% (% of repondents, who mentioned the topic), n=75 5 0% 4 0% 32% 3 0% 23% 23% 16% 17% 2 0% 11% 13% 11% 8% 1 0% 4% 4% 4% 4% 3% 1% 1% 0 % … e y n e m s n s e t g s y s h n l r s t t d t r o r r n t o a e r n s e t e i i u u u o l r i a u i i i h i a e u t n t c t r n t s m p l o a a o o t u i p r v c o u i O e s Y S n a m R o c N i e e C u S l c u / e e T B o S t e i d m l n n r f e p E u i i r o l g i M / l v J a a g n n c u e i o g t e g L n k n a r i L a v i M L 8 4

12/5/19 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 9 5