Cross Border Co-operationSummer Academy on

Szombathely29.06.2005 - 08.07.2005

Ivan, Krisztina, Béla, Kinga, Eszter, Tomi

„Freunde des Eisenstadter Schlossparks” Eisenstadt

Pre-history• The area is an European Cultural Heritage

• Association was found in 1987

• It started a cooperation with the town of Eisenstadt to renovate the park

• The castle and the park belongs to the Esterházy and Ottrubay family and they give it for rent

• Reconstruction of Orangerie (4,5 million Euro)

The Castle and the Park

• 50 ha park

• waterfall

• fountains

• chapel

• orangerie

• gloriette-panorama-tower

• four artificial lakes

• obelisk

About the project

• ‘Parknetzwerk Esterhazy Gärten’

(request for founding 2001/start of the project 2003)

• Aims:

» common publication (Fertőd-Esterhazy Castle)

» common marketing-work

» exchange the experiences & ideas

» contribution to the maintenance of the park

» organization of different events & meeting

Economy Characteristics

• 40 %

• Maintenance of the park

• Renewal of the plants

• 60 %

• Construction of parks-network

• PR

• Total expenses of the project: 240.000 €

1/3: Interreg-grant

1/3: Burgenland regional government support

1/3: Town of Eisenstadt support

Dividing of the expenses

Problems

• Hungarian interpreter, but Austrian smoke of cigarettes

• Bridging financing• Private property of the Esterhazy-garden• Free entry• Income directly to the Esterhazy & Ottrubay family

Future expectations

• Join to the network-project ‘Historical gardens inside the geographical neighbourhood’ (similar to Loire-castle)

• Stop leaking of water from the lakes

Cross-border cooperation

• Common marketing with the similar parks in Hungary

• Common publications

• Common events

Our little team enjoyed the Eszterházys’ hospitality late afternoon, it was very fine..

“Ungarische sprache in Schulen” (USIS) Bécsújhely

„A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering labs. It starts in the classroom.”

(Lee Iacocca)

Pre-history

• Involved Region:

• Neunkirchen

• Wiener-Neustadt

• Baden

• Mödling

First reaction of authority ‘nobody want to study in Hungarian’

BUT Positive answer from the first 3 schools

Hungarian language at schools (USIS)

Target groups:

Companies collaborating with Hungary, secondary and specializing schools, municipality schools which already cooperate with Hungarian schools

Objectives:

- Students learn Hungarian at school and during common school projects

- Schoolpartnerships with Hungarian schools

- Summer trainerships in Hungay and ind. Quarter

- New method of language learning, language book

About the project

• Term of the project: 2002 October – 2005 August• Number of schools: 7+13=20

• Partners: - Hungarian – Austrian Corvinus Organization (Zala Country) - Austrian – Hungarian Corvinus Organization - School Council - Regional Youth Council - 3 school-partners

• Total expenses of the project: 173.000 Euro 50 % 50 %

Interreg Regional Development

Project discription

Hungarian language not a compulsory subject (expect 1 school) 15 teachers 14 Hungarian native speaker

1 Austrian native speaker 800 students 3 lessons/week

Cross-border cooperation

‘Language offenzive’ in South-Austria / Czech, Slovak language/

Following project: ‘Hungarian & Slovakian in the Practise’

Development of school-partnerships

Supporting the teachers’ work at schools

Exchange between schools Questionaire actions Bilingual newspaper

Summary

This project wouldn’t have been realized without the government support & the teachers’ motivation

Business and Innovation Centre Burgenland GmbH

Pre-history

The mission of BIC & Technology Centre is :

to contribute to Burgenland development and prosperity

to provide space and services

consultation in EU funding to cooperate with technology

centers in MEE

Interreg project

Motivation: Cooperation with neighbours to make

attractive the region for foreign direct investors

Partners:

- ECO Plus GmbH

- ABA – Austrian Business Agency

- WWFF – Wiener Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds

- WIBAG – Wirtschaftservice Burgenland AG

Target of the project

• Information platform about cooperation• Common marketing• Crossborder terithory to support the process of entry to the EU• To strengthen the competivity of the region in international dimension• Common activities with partners

Economic characteristics of the project

Total expenses of the project : 960.000 € 50 % 50 %

EU funding Regional government Burgenland

Term of the project: 2002 January – 2004 JunePro-longed: 2005 June

Problem: some of partners tried to get EU funding unsuccessfully in their countries

Future expectation

On the basis of DIANE the follow-up projects are in preparation:

IT Marketing Cooperation between companies Tourism development Cooperation of the technology

centers

‘Training Center & Civil Defense Storage’ Eisenstadt

Pre-History

A1 % professional +

99% volunteer firemen

HU 100 % professional firemen

• 200 km common border with Hungary• Bilateral catastrophy-defense agreement• Differences in :

» Outfit» Emergency calls, processing» Action management» Tactical procedures» Training

„Training Center and Civil Defense Storage”

Aims: 1. Avoid the difficulties of coordination

2. Harmonization of the different technical standards

3. Common training programs

Total expenses of the project : 2.180.000 €

(EU, Regional Government, Regional Management Burgenland)

Economy Characteristics

5000 firemen training/year 500 professional Hungarian firemen 8 % of the insuarance premium covers the expenses of the maintenance

Used for: - purchasing of equipment (special trucks)- financing of the training center- running expenses- maintenance of the fire-department equipment

Cross-border cooperation

Estinguishing the border fires with common forces is enabled by the customs

Common training of firemen of both sidesCommon technical training program in August

Water pollution-common procedures

Fire Department Centre – The buildings and equipments co-financed by the Interreg

Everybody still aware

Command centre of Burgenland All the calls of 122 runs into this centre

Don’t be surprised, it’s not deserted, only it’s the Eisenstadt Fire Department

A strange fireplug. We have fallen in love with it at the first sight so Ivan....

...joined to the volunteers immediately...

...and chose his clothes too.

‘Without children the future can not be imagined’

Funny spotlights

‘Future expectation’ on the labour market

Finishing the first day in a lovely wine-cellar in Sopron. Not suprise, girls are on the handy

again (as usual)

A hard-working team at midnight

• Köszönjük a figyelmet!

A kérdések,észrevételek feltevésére 18.00 óra után, a jakuzziban lesz lehetőség!

• Dakujeme Vám za pozornost!

Na Vase otázky a námety odpovieme po 18.00 v perlickovom kupeli!

• Thank you for your cooperation!

Your questions and suggestions can be answered in the jakuzzi after 6 p.m.