welcome
The consultancy network “SFteam for Sustainable Future” promotes the use of structural funds for sustainable development of the regions in the Central and Eastern Europe.
Joining the European Union should bring the people in the new EU member states prosperity. One of the main instruments is the Cohesion Policy and the Structural Funds. These funds became available for our countries since accession in 2004 and 2007.
But will they bring us indeed prosperity, real development? In other words: will the funds be used in a sustainable way, in the interest of the wide public?
The NGO network “SFteam for Sustainable Future” promotes the ecologically sound use of funds for sustainable development of the regions.
The members of the network are experienced, profesional non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the Czech republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak, Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and the Netherlands.
Our partners are non-governmental organizations, the local, rural and regional municipalities, local councils, political parties, regional development agencies, the business community, the public, ministries, national governments.
Short information about SFteam you can download
here.
We strenght our partners in:
- absorption capacity building
- fundraising for our common ideas
- sustainable development plans, programs and projects preparation and realization
- partnership iniciation and management
- structural funds watchdog, evaluation and monitoring on the regional and national level
We are looking for the new active partners from the EU and from the accessing countries.
Read more about our previous activitites:
Narrative report 2007 - 2008
We are financed from own resources and joint projects. Our principles of ‘partnerships’ and ‘coalitions’ means that you can join as partner and coalition member. How to
contact us.
articles
23 November 2011
SFteam together with Bankwatch network formulate
it's opinion on questions of transparency, the partnership principle and
public participation in the future Cohesion Policy. This position paper was
primary designed to discussion with DG Regio. We hope that it can be
inspiration and suggestion to others stakeholders of process creating future
Cohesion policy of EU.
18 November 2011
As result of European Civil Meeting, organized
during Hungarian presidency in June 2011, was given recommendations on the
application of partnership for the future Cohesion Policy post-2013.
17 June 2011
The political development in some countries has
verifi ed our anxiety about the attitudes of governments and politicians
towards the broader involvement of civil society in decision-making. Some
optimism, however, may spring from the fact that there are positive cases of
cooperation even under these hard conditions. Such cases are still in progress
and we are planning to continue to follow them.
5 May 2011
During Hungarian EU Presidency is preparing
European Civil Meeting 2011 – the 3rd European Civic Days. Chief
organiser is Századvég Political School Foundation with its cooperating
governmental and non-governmental partner institutions, included our member
National Society of Conservationists, Hungary.
11 April 2011
Work of Sfteam can be for someone little bit
misty. Therefore we publish periodic overview of our activities in all
countries. We hope that this can enlighten our activities and inspired you.
21 February 2011
Friends of the Earth-CEPA organized a seminar
“Transparency and anti-corruption measures in the management of EU funds”,
that took place in Bratislava on 17th January 2011. Seminar followed Friends of
the Earth-CEPA's previous activities in the field of anti-corruption
measures and transparency on the level of programming and management of the EU
funds in Slovakia.
31 January 2011
Every three years, the EU publishes a report on economic, social and
territorial cohesion, detailing progress in these areas and how the EU,
national and regional governments have contributed. The 5th Cohesion Report was
published in November 2010.
24 November 2010
The
Bulgarian members of SFTeam, as members of the national NGO Coalition for
Sustainable Use of EU Funds (www.fesbg.org
), presented in September 2010 their interim evaluation of the mid-term
programme period 2007–2013. The BG Coalition predicts that if the same
rate of institutional work is maintained, only 15% of the EU funds for Bulgaria
will be used by the end of 2013.
9 November 2010
In June 2010 European Economic and
Social Committee published opinion focused on Efficient Partnership in Cohesion
Policy. With several languages modifications you can acquaint oneself below.
18 October 2010
The European Commission is launching public consultations on 3 planned
programmes, due to replace 3 existing programmes from the beginning of
2014:
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