Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)
2017 / 3. szám - TRANSNATIONAL EFFORTS - Kocsis-Kupper Zsuzsanna: Financing possibilities for water projects in the Danube region in 2017
Zsuzsanna Kocsis-Kupper: Financing possibilities for water projects in the Danube region in 2017 9 The Danube Strategic Project Fund (DSPF) is a new facility, managed by PA 10 of the EUSDR (City of Vienna) in close cooperation with EuroVienna aiming at supporting the implementation of transnational strategic projects aligned with the objective of the EUSDR with a specific added value at the interfaces between cohesion and enlargement/neighbourhood policy. Currently DSPF is in the process of decision-making about proposals that were submitted by different priority areas in spring 2017. PA4 was also supportive in 2016-2017 for proposals to be set up for the DSPF and forwarded 4 project proposals to be funded. The Seed Money Facility (SMF) is a funding opportunity provided by the Danube Transnational Programme to support the development of projects in line with the 12 Priority Areas of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. With Seed Money support, projects can be prepared for further funding source, regardless the financial instrument to be addressed by the project developed, be it national, mainstream EU, transnational or cross border or by any other public or private investor (such as IFIs) or public- private partnership. The details of the upcoming SMF call will be announced in a dedicated event in Vienna on 27 September 2017. Other possibilities for assistance The author notes finally that there are several other financial possibilities via international financing institutions, such as for example the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Advisory Hub, the EBRD, the World Bank; and many other national and local sources and private investments as well to serve the needs of the organizations in the Danube. The aim of the current paper was to provide a short overview and update of the most important possibilities that could be utilized for EUSDR PA4 and PA5 stakeholders. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The paper was prepared with the financial assistance of the Danube Transnational Programme, in the frame of project DTP PACI PA04 Water Quality. REFERENCES METIS (2017). Embedding macro-regional strategies: Cooperation methods and tools to embed the macro-reTHEAUTHOR gional strategies for the Danube and Adriatic-Ionian regions into EU funding programmes, INTERact Programme, ISBN 978-80-972433-3-3, page 86. Ulm Statement (2015). Joint Statement of Ulm on the EU Strategy for the Danube Region- Ulm, 29 October 2015. Related webpages: http://www.danube-region.eu/funding/aligning-eusdresif http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/what/investment-policy/ https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/neighbourhood/cross-border-cooperationen https://www.interregeurope.eu http://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/news/Third-call-focus.html www. i nterreg-danube. eu http://ec.europa.eu/budget/mff/programmes/indexen.cfm http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/funding/life2017/index.htm www.danube-euroaccess.eu http://www.interreg-danube.eu/news-and-events/programme-news-and-events/877 http: //www. e ib.org For Hungarian stakeholders, the following programmes are available and relevant: ATHU: http://www.at-hu.net/at-hu/hu/program/2014- 2020.php SIHU: http://www.si-hu.eu/ HUHR: http://www.huhr-cbc.com/ HUSRB: http://www.interreg-ipa-husrb.com/ ROHU: http://2014.huro-cbc.eu/ SKHU: http://www.skhu.eu/ HUSKROUA: http://huskroua-cbc.net/ ZSUZSANNA KOCSIS-KUPPER is an environmental lawyer. She is a team member of Priority Area Water Quality of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). http://www.danubewaterqual- ity.eu Ms Kocsis-Kupper further acts as an external monitoring consultant and regional coordinator of the European Commission’s external monitoring team for LIFE projects in the Central- Eastern European countries. She is a Vice Chair of the Compliance Committee of the UNECE Protocol on Water and Health. She has experience with international water issues and gave lectures on environmental law and international environmental law in Eötvös Loránd University Law Faculty for postgraduate students for more than ten years. Her main area of expertise is European and international environmental law and management, focusing on water quality issues.
