We are looking for a Russian partner to start logistics service – project in Finland close to the Parikkala-Syväoro crossing border. The ideal potential partner would be one that has relevent experiense in the logistics business. We are looking for a company with more or less proven track record that has right mix of experience, drive and creativity. If you have any ideas please feel free to contact.
Contact information
Max Liukkonen
Email: [email protected]
South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 Programme’s fourth round of a call closes on 15 June 2018. Available financial envelope is € 8,5 Mio and applications may be submitted to all four priorities. Managing Authority, in cooperation with its branch office, organizes training workshop sessions in Russia and in Finland targeted primarily for the lead applicants preparing applications for the up-coming call.
Workshop in Mikkeli on 18 April 2018 is cancelled
Support to preparation of the applications for the Call 4 is offered via organisation-based consultations in Finland during May, according to the requests send to official(at)sefrcbc.fi. We regret any inconvenience caused by the cancellation.
Workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia on 23 April 2018
Time: 13:00-17:30 (local hours, incl. registration)
Venue: Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge (70 seats)
Address: Birzhevoy Pereulok 2, 199004 St. Petersburg
Language: English (simultaneous interpreter with Russian, material in English)
Events’ objective is support to preparation of good quality applications and to ensure that the organizations planning the lead partner role are aware of their responsibilities in the application and the project implementation phases. The trainings shall also provide the participants with an overview on how they may improve their performance when dealing with the activities supported by the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme. Lessons learned from the first two calls are also introduced, with the viewpoints of the administrative and eligibility compliance checks results.
Registration
Open during 16. March – 13. April 2018 by using following link
Workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia on 23 April 2018
Event programme
South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 programme will organise, in cooperation with the experts of the TESIM (Technical Support to the Implementation and Management of ENI CBC programmes) project, networking forum on building CBC projects.
The forum will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia on 5 April 2018 at 11:00-17:30 (local time).
Venue: Hotel Angleterre, Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa 24, 190000 St. Petersburg.
Languages: Russian, with some interpretation into English and Finnish
Registration period: 9.-27. March 2018
Objectives of the forum are awareness raising on the cross-border cooperation, providing opportunities to find partners and generate project ideas and offering training also for the first steps of partnership. Target groups of the forum are potential applicants and partners from the eligible regions of the programme, both in Russia and in Finland, in particular newcomers in the frame of cross-border cooperation.
FORUM PROGRAMME
Networking Forum 5 April 2018 St. Petersburg Forum programme_engl
Networking Forum 5 April 2018 St. Petersburg Forum programme_rus
REGISTRATION 9.-27. MARCH 2018
Link for registration and project idea form
Third round of a call of the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 will be closed on 28/3/2018 at 23:30 o’clock Finnish time. Applications submitted in the PROMAS by that time, will be recorded for the evaluation and decision-making procedure, including following steps:
Each application will go through administrative and eligibility compliance check. This phase takes approximately 6 to 8 weeks, depending of the total number of applications. Applications that pass the administrative and eligibility check will be forwarded to the quality assessment. This phase takes also approximately 6 to 8 weeks, depending of the number of applications. The quality assessment is finalized in the Joint Selection Committee meeting, and the recommendations of the awards are forwarded to the Joint Monitoring Committee, which shall have its next meeting in September 2018.
The Joint Monitoring Committee has awarded ten (10) project proposals from the second call, in total for ca. 7,2 million euros. List of awards in made available in pdf-file below.
List of awards – Call no 2 closed 30062017
The list of awards is conditional. The MA contacts the lead partners of awarded projects in March to launch the grant contract negotiations. However, the contracts for the projects will be signed only if the Russian Duma ratifies the Financial Agreement of the Programme. If a project is not selected to receive Programme financing as a consequence of an administrative or technical failure caused during the assessment process the lead applicant has right to submit a complaint within 30 calendar days of publication of the list of awards (More information in the Programme Manual part B, chapter 9. Complaint and claim procedures).
Regional Council of South Karelia is seeking the Acting Programme Director to work as a director of the Managing Authority (MA). The position is temporary and it will be filled until 31st of December 2018. Responsibilities and expected qualifications are described in the recruitment add. Submission deadline for the application is 1st of March 2018 at 4 p.m (Ft).
For further information, contact
Regional Mayor Mr Matti Viialainen
Mobile +358 44 770 0515
Programme Director Ms Päivi Ilves
Mobile +358 40 558 6011, email paivi.ilves(at)sefrcbc.fi
Concerning conditions of employment
Director, regional development Ms Satu Sikanen
Mobile + 358 400 661 318, email satu.sikanen(at)ekarjala.fi
New year 2018 has started and our news-feed of 2017 is moved to the news library. Registration to our first events is open until 31/01/2018 and you can go directly to the information page via link Workshops in February 2018
Our services are available during the holiday seasons with few exceptions:
Lappeenranta office (MA) is closed on 25-26.12.2017 and on 1.1.2018. St. Petersburg office (BO) is closed on 1-8.1.2018.
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Warmest wishes
for a happy holiday season
and a wonderful new year.
CBC -team
South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 Programme’s third round of a call closes on 28 March 2018. Managing Authority organizes training workshop sessions in Russia and in Finland targeted primarily for the lead applicants preparing applications for the third call. Events’ objective is support to preparation of good quality applications and to ensure that the organizations planning the lead partner role are aware of their responsibilities in the application and the project implementation phases. The trainings shall also provide the participants with an overview on how they may improve their performance when dealing with the activities supported by the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme. Lessons learned from the first two calls are also introduced, with the viewpoints of the administrative and eligibility compliance checks results.
Registration is open during 18.12.2017 – 31.1.2018 by using below links
In addition to participant information, few questions concerning the planned project and training topics are asked in the form, to ensure that all needs for information are covered.
(Click the date/venue of your choice for the landing page of registration)
20.2.2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia (applicants from the City of St. Petersburg)
21.2.2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia (applicants from the Leningrad Region)
23.2.2018 in Imatra, Finland
27.2.2018 in Helsinki, Finland
Workshop programme
All workshops have similar content and all presentations will be in English. Spoken languages in the events in Finland are English/Finnish and in Russia, English/Russian.
(Click the date/venue of your choice for the event programme)
20.2.2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia (applicants from the City of St. Petersburg)
21.2.2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia (applicants from the Leningrad Region)
23.2.2018 in Imatra, Finland
27.2.2018 in Helsinki, Finland
In any questions concerning the workshops, contact us via [email protected]
The Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) had its fifth meeting on 12 December 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. Among other issues, the JMC selected ten project proposals to be funded from the second call and approved the Large Infrastructure Projects to be processed for the European Commission final consultation by the end of the year. The JMC approved also the schedule for the fourth round of a call that is to be closed o
Next steps for the second call proposals
By the end of February 2018 latest, the Managing Authority shall draw up and deliver Executive Order, to the lead applicant of each proposal submitted for the second call, marking official note of the award or of the rejection and its grounds. Thereafter, the lead partners of awarded projects are provided with the invitation for the grant contract negotiations accompanied with detailed information of the maximum grant, of any recommendations and/or requirements for grant and of instructions how to proceed. Negotiation process is launched by the end of the first quarter of 2018 on condition of ratification of the Programme’s Financing Agreement (if still on process) and the grant contracts may be signed only after its conclusion.
List of selected project proposals awarded in total of ca. €
(Official publication list of awards with more detailed information will be made available after the approval of JMC meeting minutes)
