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Availability of the Joint Secretariat in June

Please note that on 20th-21th and 25th June, 2019 the members of the Joint Secretariat will participate on an external event. You can contact us on 24th June and from 26th June within the regular working hours.

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The next submission deadline and the date of the next Monitoring Committee meeting 2019

The next meetings of the MC will be held on the 12th and 13th June 2019 and 4th and 5th December 2019, respectively.

The projects to be proposed to the 9th MC meeting in June 2019 must be submitted via eMS until 13th March 2019 at noon.

On its 10th meeting in December 2019 the MC is going to discuss those formally compliant applications that are submitted by 11th September 2019 at noon.

Tender for the programme’s impact evaluation

The programme Interreg AT-HU conducts an evaluation of the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of the programme.

First part of the programme evaluation finalised

The first part of the programme evaluation addresses the programme structures and processes and the implementation of the communication strategy. The executive summary of the respective final report is published and available under Downloads/Programme documents.

EU in my region 2019: THE campaign for EU funded projects

Do you want to put your EU-funded project in the spotlight? #EUinmyRegion is just what you need! The campaign of the European Union gives projects a platform to present their stories and achievements and invites European citizens to learn about the use of European funding in their region and see projects at their doorstep. Take part and figure out what happens.

The 8th monitoring committee meeting took place in Bükfürdő (HU) on the 19th and 20th February 2019

The focus of the agenda on the MC’s first day was on programme steering related issues. Among others, MC members received information about the activities that are foreseen on the basis of results of the programme evaluation, recently implemented by external experts. The general programme related topics were followed by presentations about up-to-date developments of running projects, such as ATHU002 (Vogelwarte Madárvárta 2), ATHU003 (PaNaNet+), ATHU016 (CrossBorder Rail), ATHU018 (City Cooperation II), as well as the road construction projects. The discussion of submitted projects and the related decision about ERDF funding has already started at the end of the first day, and was the focus topic of the second day.

Opening hours of the Joint Secretariat 15th March 2019

Please note that the Joint Secretariat will be closed on Friday 15th March 2019 (National Holiday in Hungary). You can contact us on after the long weekend on the 18th March 2019 again!

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The next submission deadline and the date of the next Monitoring Committee meeting

The next meetings of the MC will be held on the 19th-20th February 2019 and 12th-13th June 2019, respectively.

Those formally compliant applications that were submitted by 31st October are going to be discussed by the Monitoring Committee on the following 8th meeting in February 2019.

The projects to be proposed on the 9th Committee meeting must be submitted via eMS until 13th March 2019 12:00 AM.

Version 2.2 of the Eligibility Handbook is published

Based on some amended rules in the Common Provisions Regulation (EU) 1303/2013, certain details of the eligibility rules in our programme have been updated. These adaptations were approved by the Monitoring Committee at its meeting on 21.11.2018, and have been published in the version 2.2 of the Eligibility Handbook. For the list of amendments please see section 6.2 of the Handbook about versioning.

The 7th Monitoring Committee meeting took place in Vienna on the 21st November

Based on a previous decision of the MC, no newly submitted applications were discussed by the MC on 21.05.2018 in Vienna. The main focus of the agenda was the programme steering, thus among others the members of the Committee got a summary about the finalisation of the designation procedure, the measures and modifications to be taken in the Programme as result of the EU’s Omnibus Regulation’s (2018/1046 EU), and the draft report of the programme evaluation were discussed, as well as the implementation of certain previously approved projects were reviewed.

eMS Version 4_1.1 installed: new features, easier work

The version 4_1.1 of the eMS was installed on 5th November 2018 with it, new features. Major changes include the handling of modification requests as well as the management of enclosed documents to progress reports and should enable to foster the reporting work.

EC DAY 2018: let’s get together and celebrate skills without borders

The European Cooperation Day 2018 (EC day 2018), which was this year commonly organized by the programs Interreg V-A Austria-Hungary, Austria-Slovakia and Austria-Czech Republic as well as the department MA27 of the City of Vienna met great success on 27th September 2018!

Version 2.0 of the calculation sheets for staff costs are published

The Managing Authority discussed with the Audit Authority during the designation process the calculation sheets for staff costs and a harmonized version of the calculation sheets V2.0 are now published.

During this process was also developed a guideline for staff cost calculation which is now available for download.

Opening hours of the Joint Secretariat in October

Please note, that on the 12th-13th October, 2018 the members of the Joint Secretariat will participate on an external event. Following 11th October, we will be available for you again on the 15th October.

Please also note that the Joint Secretariat will be closed on Monday-Tuesday, 22nd October– 23rd October, 2018 in line with the Hungarian legislation on holidays. You can contact us again after the long weekend on the 24th October, 2018!

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European cooperation day 2018

We invite you to a festive event with the motto „Competencies without Borders” at the MAK in Vienna.

Fourth round of decision of the monitoring committee

The sixth meeting of the programme Monitoring Committee took place in Zalakaros on 20th and 21st June 2018. Nine project applications were sent to the JS by the submission deadline, 22nd March 2018, and all were proposed to the MC for decision after completion of the compliance check and quality evaluation.
Four projects were approved under conditions by the Monitoring Committee, 2 postponed and three rejected. As a result, up to 4.12 M Euros of additional European funding will be invested in the cross-border region, and the percentage of the ERDF budget bound to approved initiatives in the current programming period reached 81.02 % (more information concerning the current status of programme implementation is available on the website).

Vacancy at the Joint Secretariat prolonged again

The Joint Secretariat is looking for a Programme Manager in Sopron, Hungary. The deadline for the recent job advertisement is 17th August 2018.

The Manual for Applicants has been updated

The MA and JS have updated the Manual for Applicants with the (in Implementation Manual already available) rules for complaint procedures, and with some small clarifications and corrections. For more details see the versioning at the end of the manual.

Hungarian version 1.1 of the handbook "Manual Microsites" is published

The Managing Authority and the Joint Secretariat have published the Hungarian translation for the updated version of the Handbook "Manual Microsites"

Version 1.1 of the implementation manual is published

The Managing Authority and the Joint Secretariat have published the updated version of the Implementation Manual.

Submission deadline for applications and date of the next Monitoring Committee meetings

Based on the latest decision of Monitoring Committee, its 7th meeting will be held at 21 November, 2018. On this meeting there’ll be no discussion and decision related to newly submitted applications.

The date of the 8th Monitoring Committee meeting is 19-20 February, 2019. Here, applications submitted until 31 October, 2018 at 12:00 via eMS will be discussed.

Tender procedure for the software maintenance, adaptation and development of the eMS software

The programme Interreg AT-HU carries out a tender for the software maintenance, adaptation and development of the eMS software.

Europe in Vienna! Discover European projects from 15th to 19th May 2018

Open days are about to start in Vienna with various events organized including visits, exhibitions and workshops in order to present European initiatives to the general public.

LP Seminar in Sopron, second round

A promise is a promise: The JS and the MA organized on 2nd May, 2018 a second LP seminar for the 9 projects approved by the MC on 18th and 19th October 2017 in Baden, Austria.

Opening hours of the Joint Secretariat

Please note that the Joint Secretariat will be closed on Monday-Tuesday, 30th April – 1st May 2018 in line with the Hungarian legislation on holidays. You can contact us on after the long weekend on the 2nd May 2018 again!

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Tender for the programme’s impact evaluation

The programme Interreg AT-HU conducts an evaluation of the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of the programme.

Vacancy at the Joint Secretariat prolonged

The Joint Secretariat is looking for a Programme Manager in Sopron, Hungary. The recent job advertisement is now prolonged until 25th April 2018.

Version 1.1 of the handbook "Manual Microsites" is published

The Managing Authority and the Joint Secretariat have published the updated version of the Handbook "Manual Microsites"

The Hungarian translation is in process.

Opening hours of the Joint Secretariat

Please note that the Joint Secretariat will be closed on Thursday, 15th March 2018 (national holiday in Hungary) and the following Friday, 16th March in line with the Hungarian legislation on holidays. You can contact us on after the long weekend on the 19th March 2018 again!

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LP Seminar in Sopron, first round

New programming period, new rules! This was the moto of the LP Seminar jointly organized by the Joint Secretariat and the Managing Authority in Sopron on 12th March 2018.

Seminar "reporting expenditures successfully"

Today, the regional coordination body Burgenland organised a seminar for project partners from Burgenland at the premises of RMB.

Vacancy at the Joint Secretariat

The Joint Secretariat is looking for a Programme Manager in Sopron, Hungary.

Version 2.1 of the Eligibility Handbook is published

The Managing Authority and the Joint Secretariat have published the updated version of the Eligibility Handbook

Next submissions of projects and meeting dates of the Monitoring Committee

The Monitoring Committee agreed that the next meetings of the Monitoring Committee would take place from 20th to 21st June 2018 and 21st to 22nd November 2018.

Third round of decision of the monitoring committee

The fifth meeting of the programme Monitoring Committee took place in Baden on 18th and 19th October 2017. Nineteen project applications were sent to the JS by the submission deadline, 22nd May 2017, one of them was withdrawn in the phase of formal assessment and eighteen formally compliant ones were proposed to the MC for decision. Nine of them were approved by the Monitoring Committee -eight under conditions-, six postponed and three rejected. As a result of this decision, up to 14.5 M Euros of additional European funding will be invested in new Austrian-Hungarian initiatives, and the percentage of the ERDF budget already bound to approved cross-border projects in the current programming period has reached 75.6 %.

Annual event 2017 – Interreg brings colour to the region

This year’s annual event of the programme Interreg Austria-Hungary on 30 May 2017 in Sopron was themed twofold: 20 years of EU funded cross-border cooperation between Austria and Hungary, and “Let’s colour the region”.

Annual event "Let's colour the region"

On 30 May 2017 the annual event "Let's colour the region" takes place in Sopron from 9:00 to 17:00.

Next submission of projects and meeting dates of the Monitoring Committee

Second round of decision of the monitoring committee

First round of decision of the Monitoring Committee

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Change of date of Monitoring Committee meeting for decision making

The next meeting of the Monitoring Committee will be held on three instead of two days because of administrative reasons.

Results of the publicly held EU-wide consultation of the European Commission

Here are the results of the publicly held EU-wide consultation of the European Commission about the obstacle for cross-border cooperation

18.-19. of May 2016: First decisions made on the second meeting of the Monitoring Committee regarding submitted projects

The second meeting of the Monitoring Committee is going to take place on the 18th and 19th of May 2016.

The Call for applications for Interreg V-A Austria-Hungary is open!

We would like to inform our applicants that the call for project applications in the Interreg V-A Austria-Hungary programme was openned on the 16th of December 2015.

Closing brochure of the cross-border cooperation programme AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 2007–2013

In the programme period 2007-2013 the cross-border cooperation programme has supported 88 projects.

The visit of commissioner Creţu at SEDDON

On the occasion of the „European Cooperation Day" on the 21st of September, commissioner Corina Creţu, responsible for EU regional policy visited the programmes Austria-Hungary and Slovakia-Austria

New Cooperation Programme Austria- Hungary approved!

Finally the time has come on the 30th of June 2015

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Finally the time has come on the 30th of June 2015