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Showing all data for 2014–2021

Completed

Hrubieszów Local Development - from participation to implementation

City of Hrubieszów - LD ·Poland

€4m
Grant awarded
Local Development
Programme
21 December 2021
Signed

About this project

<p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The urban municipality of Hrubieszów struggles with multiple deficits, issues and barriers, which cause considerable gradual stagnation in local development, and also are the main reason behind the loss of its social and economic functionality and deteriorating local living standards. This makes Hrubieszów unattractive as a place of residence or employment. The local loss of development functionalities is a long-term process, affected by a series of negative phenomena and </span></span><span style="font-size: 8px"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">factors.&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">The main goal of the project is to achieve sustainable socio-economic development of the city through effective, complete and open to progressive city administration. Facilities to be established: the Creative Centre for Education and Economic Cooperation, the Hrubieszów Communication Centre,&nbsp; the Day Care Centre for Senior Citizens. </span>The Creative Centre for Education and Economic Co-operation (CCEEC) is to become the fundamental source of momentum for the town’s development. The CCEEC shall prepare young people for a future in competitive green economy, it will also support local business by organising counselling, training, and partnership-based business contact evolution activities.&nbsp;Other activities will carry positive social impact in terms of limiting social exclusion and communication exclusion&nbsp; as well as environmental enhancement, the project will also support tourism.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">All investments will be closely tied to activities involving strategic town management and improving the quality of local resident participation and collaboration.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 8px"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;, sans-serif">The project develops and strengthens gender equality.&nbsp;The project is needed to elliminate disproportions and diagnosed problems of all residents and users of the city. The final beneficiaries of the project are the city's r</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;, sans-serif">esidents and all users of the city.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif">Fund availability pending, the town further intends to deliver auxiliary tasks, complementary to activities listed herein and funded from other sources.</span></span></p>

Bilateral cooperation results

Bilateral cooperation between the Municipality of Hrubieszow and the Municipality of Elverum in Norway, due to the scope of operation of Norwegian institutions and their many years of extensive experience in the field of local development, was an important point of reference for Hrubieszow in the context of implementing the project's assumptions and thus meeting the needs of the city's residents. The Elverum commune is distinguished by its rich cultural, sports, educational and tourist offer as well as the effective cooperation of the local government with social organizations and entrepreneurs, which creates good conditions for its development. An important aspect of the established cooperation was primarily the mutual exchange of experiences and the opportunity to develop the best practices in areas such as supporting the development of local business and increasing its competitiveness, creating attractive conditions for the development of entrepreneurship, providing care services to the elderly and disabled people, and organizing urban space in accordance with their needs. needs. Cooperation with the Elverum Commune is a valuable source of inspiration and new ideas for the further development of our city, especially in the field of innovative solutions supporting local business and sustainable development. Thanks to the exchange of experiences, Hrubieszow has the opportunity to implement proven models from Norway, which will contribute to improving the quality of life of its inhabitants and creating a more competitive and open to investment city. All these meetings indicated specific directions of action, which in turn will not only support economic growth and improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of both communes, but will also strengthen bilateral international cooperation, creating completely new development opportunities for both local governments.

Project partners

  • Elverum municipality Donor project partner· Norway
  • Municial Social Welfare Centre (MOPS) - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Rural Municipality of Hrubieszów - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Golden Age Club at Hrubieszów House of Culture (Klub Złotego Wieku przy Hrubieszowskim Domu Kultury) - LD Project partner· Poland
  • "Lepsze Jutro" Association - Local Action Group - LD Project partner· Poland
  • "Gotania" Local Tourist Organisation - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Stanisław Staszic Hrubieszów Regional Society (Towarzystwo Regionalne Hrubieszowskie) - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Bolesław Brus Elementary School nr 1 in Hrubieszów - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Kardynał Stefan Wyszyński Elementary School nr 2 in Hrubieszów - LD Project partner· Poland
  • mjr Henryk Dobrzański „Hubal" Elementary School nr 3 in Hrubieszów - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Municipal Road Service - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Sokal City Council of Lviv Region - LD Project partner· Ukraine
  • Tadeusz Kosciuszko Cracow University of Technology - LD Project partner· Poland
  • St. Jan Bosko "Jestem" Association for Children and Youth - LD Project partner· Poland
  • Polish Association of the Blind, County Circle in Hrubieszów - LD Project partner· Poland