6 February 2012
In this year was Sfteam supported from International Visegrad Fund for project promoting partnership principles and good praxis in programming and implementation of Structural fund of EU.
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.
Sfteam in this year realize project Partnership for sustainability in EU funds in CEE supported by International Visegrad Fund. Project information project You can find here.
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
Enhancing transparency, the partnership principle and public participation in the future Cohesion Policy
Vložil Ondrej Marek, rubrika Partnership
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
Report from seminar “Transparency and anti-corruption measures in the management of EU funds”
Vložil Ondrej Marek, rubrika Watchdog
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
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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.