EUSAIR - Final Report

ANDREJA JERINA
National Coordinator of EU Macro-regional Strategies,
MInistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
Throughout the pre-accession period of Slovenia,
Andreja acted as National Aid Coordinator. She was
responsible for setting up the national system for
external assistance management and negotiating
financial arrangements with the European Commission.
After the accession to the EU, in her capacity as Head
of the Managing Authority for Structural and Cohesion
Funds, she was responsible for the overall national coordination
and financial management of EU funds.
As Supreme State Auditor at the Court of Audit of
Slovenia, she introduced the first audits of expenditures
from the EU budget in Slovenia. During the economic
and financial crisis, Andreja acted as State Secretary
responsible for Development and EU Affairs, coordinating
national anti-crisis measures, including the transition
to results-based budgeting. She was actively involved in
the EU enlargement process and membership negotiations
with EU candidate countries. In 2018, she acted as
EU High Level Advisor on Aid Coordination in Moldova.
She currently works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Slovenia as National Coordinator of EU Macroregional
Strategies.
STAŠA MESEC
EUSAIR Facility Point Project Manager, Government Office
for Development and European Cohesion Policy, Republic
of Slovenia
With the experience of living right next to the border
and with her large family, Staša understands that the
future is in our hands, depending on our ability to cooperate.
In 2016 she accepted the challenge to lead the
EUSAIR Facility Point project, which provides support to
the operation of the strategy. Her vision is focused on
activities that, with innovative, fresh ideas, contribute
to trust both within the core team of the partnership
and among all stakeholders in the region. By heart and
profession, she is a geographer, a regional planner, and
since 2002 she has been employed by the Government
Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy
in various areas of development policies.
MITJA BRICELJ
Coordinator of the EUSAIR Pillar III Environmental Quality,
Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the
Republic of Slovenia
Mitja Bricelj is a geographer who first tried journalistic
waters. Due to his love of geography, he continued his
career as a researcher at the Institute of Geography of
the University of Ljubljana. He has been employed at
the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
since 1990. From 1993 to 1997 he was Director of the
Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature
Protection, a body within the Ministry of the Environment
and Spatial Planning, and since 1993 he has been the
national coordinator of the Convention for the Protection
of the Mediterranean Sea from Pollution with Protocol
(Barcelona Convention), which is the legal basis for implementing
the Mediterrannean Action Plan (MAP/UNEP).
He was also a member of its bureau in the period 2001-
2003. Among other things, he also performs the function
of president of the Association of Geographical Societies
of Slovenia and is the author and leader of the project
Slovenia – Water Learning Path of Europe.
IZTOK ŠKERLIČ
Public Institute for the Promotion of Enterpreneurship and
Development Projects of the Municipality of Izola, EUSAIR
Facility Point Slovene Project Partner
Iztok Škerlič has a master's degree in entrepreneurial
sciences. He is directing all his energy through
entrepreneurial projects into preserving both the
cultural and natural heritage of the Slovene coast.
He honed his talents at the University Research Center
of Primorska, ran the Primorska Incubator for four years,
and then continued his career in the Government Office
for Development and European Cohesion Policy of the
Republic of Slovenia as head of the Joint Technical Secretariat
for Cross-border Cooperation Programme between
Slovenia and Italy. In 2016, he accepted the challenge of
leading the Public Institute for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship
and Development Projects of the Municipality
of Izola, and today he is also acting as a Project Partner
of the EUSAIR Facility Point.
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