EUSAIR - Final Report

EUSAIR Facility Point
The EUSAIR Facility Point, created under the auspices
of the INTEREG ADRION 2014-2020 programme, is a
strategic project to facilitate harmonisation and coordination
of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region.
It addresses the common challenges of the region
and strengthens stakeholder cooperation for economic,
social and territorial cohesion.
It assists the EUSAIR Governing Board, the Thematic
Steering Groups and all stakeholders in simplifying
public administration, addressing common priorities
and implementing the action plan. At the same time,
it ensures the greatest possible involvement of all those
responsible for the implementation processes.
The EUSAIR Facility Point is an interweave of three
aspects:
• Place of collaboration: a platform for all stakeholders
and the EUSAIR management jointly to address
all the challenges of the Macro-region.
• Access to knowledge: knowledge of the Macroregional
area, all about good practices, dissemination
of own experience.
• Access to information: funding opportunities
for relevant projects, participation in EUSAIR events
and other information relating to EUSAIR.
Priorities of the
Slovene Presidency
of EUSAIR 20-21
During this period, EUSAIR institutions developed a
number of concrete arrangements and enforcement
regimes, taking into account coastal and marine ecosystem
services throughout the EUSAIR area, with a focus
on the Adriatic eco-region. “Recovery after the Covid-19
crisis must also be green,” they wrote in their commitments
at the beginning of the Presidency.
The second priority of the EUSAIR 20-21 Presidency was
to continue the EU enlargement process to the
Western Balkans and to start accession negotiations
with Albania and North Macedonia, which, through their
geographical location, strengthen internal cohesion
in the region.
Special attention was also paid to the area of competence
building and communication with key EUSAIR
stakeholders and young people. Slovenia has to date
devoted a large part of its activities to these contents,
and this time it also took advantage of the opportunity
offered by the management of the EUSAIR Facility Point.
EUSAIR Facility Point strategic project is lead by
Government Office for Development and European
Cohesion Policy of the Republic of Slovenia.
The Municipality of Izola acts as Slovene Project
Partner and offered support to national members
of Thematic Steering Groups with special emphasis
on the Environmental Quality pillar. Through the
Public Institute for the Promotion of Enterprenuership
and Development Projects of the Municipality
of Izola, they were involved in the preparation
of concepts for strategic (Macro-regional) projects,
monitoring, reporting and evaluation for the environmental
pillar, as well as support to stakeholders in the
other three EUSAIR pillars.
Cooperation with the European Commission
to ensure adequate financial resources and the insertion
of agreed strategic Macro-regional activities in the
EU cohesion and pre-accession programmes for the
period 2021-2027 played a key role in fulfilling the set
goals of the Slovene Presidency of EUSAIR 20-21.
Slovenia took over the Presidency of the EU Strategy
for the Adriatic-Ionian Region from the Republic of
Serbia on 1 June 2020 and held the Presidency until
31 May 2021 inclusive.
In order to improve the quality of life in coastal areas
and in the hinterland, Slovenia set itself the key task of
Green Connectivity during its Presidency of EUSAIR.
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