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Innovation & Cooperation
Foto: CEI
1 st MEETING of CEI National Coordinators –
CNC, Budapest, 22 Jan. 2013
Foto: Giovanni Montenero
MEETING of the CEI Ministers of Foreign
Affairs, Trieste, 13 June 2012
Funds, Instruments & Figures:
strategic approach to regional cooperation
The CEI is a well-functioning intergovernmental machinery,
our strong operational character and project-oriented
approach, our manifold activities in various areas
and initiatives to create a good business environment as
well as our investment in a knowledge-based economy
have served and are going to continue serving to increase
the economic, social and territorial cohesion within
our regional scope. In order to meet the strategic objectives
for the benefit of its Member States, the CEI makes
use of a variety of Funds and Instruments covering ten
main areas of cooperation:
Our 20-plus-year partnership with the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is a
real success-story in this regard, significantly contributing
to strengthening CEI’s project-oriented dimension.
The CEI Fund at the EBRD, towards which the Italian
Government has solely made a total contribution of
€38.5 million, mainly provides grant-type assistance
for specific components of Technical Cooperation (TC)
projects. Since its inception in 1992, the Fund has provided
more than €23 million for funding more than 130
TC assignments, mobilising €4.8 billion of international
investments in the countries of operations. For one euro
spent on CEI Technical Cooperation, €215 were invested
by the EBRD, other IFIs and clients.
Since 2004, the CEI Fund at the EBRD has also contributed
a total of more than €2.1 million to the Know-How
Exchange Programme (KEP) supporting 75 projects. >>
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