Fact sheet Romania - CH

ROMANIA
SWISS CONTRIBUTION: 181 MILLION CHF
Country information
Population: 21.4 millions
Area: 238‘391 km 2
GDP growth: 2.5%
Per capita GDP to EU average: 49%
Public debt as % of GDP: 33.4%
Imports from Romania: 347.6 million CHF
Exports to Romania: 762.0 million CHF
Source: Swiss Foreign Trade Statistics (2012), Eurostat (2011)
Up until 7 th December 2014, Romania will be apportioned an amount of 181 million CHF for the approval
of projects aimed at reducing economic and social disparities.
The Direction for Development and Cooperation (DDC) and the Secretariat for Economic Affairs
(SECO) work together with the Swiss contribution office established at the Swiss Embassy
in Bucharest. The main partner in Romania is the National Coordination Unit (NCU) at the Ministry of
Public Finance.
For Romania the commitment period ends on December 7 th , 2014, while the implementation phase will
run until December 7th, 2019.
What we do
Distribution by focus areas
Projects in
Romania:

Some of our projects
Improving Social Security
REGA-SMURD Air Rescue Project is a joint project
between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Ad
-ministration and Interior and REGA. REGA has
been in contact with SMURD since 2007. A Swissfinanced
project of 1.5 million Swiss francs will provide
capacity building to achieve a lasting impact on
the professionalism, quality and safety of the Romanian
SMURD air rescue operation.
Switzerland also backs measures to better integrate
minorities with a thematic fund for the „Inclusion of
Roma and other Vulnerable Groups“. Through different
programs and local as well as regional projects,
the 14 million CHF fund contribute to the empowerment
and awareness building to foster the social inclusion
of these groups.
Environment and infrastructure
Romanian cities are singularly inefficient in their use
of energy and consequently heavy producers of CO2.
The aim of this project is to enhance the sustainable
energy management at the municipal level in four selected
cities (Arad, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca and
Suceava). The program will finance up to 10 priority
infrastructure projects with a total Swiss contribution
of CHF 37 million.
Facing an ever growing number of private cars in the
city of Bucharest, there is an urgent need to invest in
its public transportation system. The Swiss contribution
finances a feasibility study for a 14km extension
of the M4 metro line. This extension should include
14km of underground line with 14 stations for a total
cost of over 1 billion Euros. The Swiss grant for the
study consists of 8.5 million francs. This project was
approved in July 2012, and is expected to reach completion
by 2015.
Sources: Metrorex.ro, Rega.ch