Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro and Serbian Government’s the EU Integration Office, with technical support provided by Joint Technical Secretariat of the Cross-border Programme Serbia – Montenegro (JTS), organized two-day Info Workshops „Preparation of project proposals for the Cross-border Programme Serbia – Montenegro“in Serbia, on March 31 – April 01 in Nova Varoš and in Montenegro on April, 07-08 in Kolašin.

The Cross-border Programme Serbia-Montenegro is financed from Component II of the EU’s Intstrument for Pre-accession Assistance provided by the EU. The Programme covers period from 2007-2013 and will be implemented under centralized management, where the Delegation of the European Union is the Contracting Authority.

In the following period it is planned announcement of the third Call for Proposals, where it will be available about 2.2 million for organization from Serbia and Montenegro for joint activities that will be implemented in the program area that covers almost the whole territory of Montenegro, except in coastal area, as well as Zlatiborski, Raski and Moravicki district in Serbia.

During the workshops which were attended by 85 participants from Serbia and from Montenegro following was presented: Cross-border Programme Serbia – Montenegro, logical framework matrix in the context of cross-border cooperation and its relation to the application form, public procurement procedures, financial management, calculation of the eligible costs in the standard budget form, as well as project monitoring and reporting system.

We would like to thank to all participants of workshops for a great interest and support and wish great success in preparing project proposals for the upcoming third Call for proposals.

Joint Technical Secretariat