CESCI’s EIAH project will be completed in July

The European Investment Advisory Hub has entrusted the French MOT (Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière) with the identification of challenges and obstacles arising in the case of cross-border cooperation and to prepare a proposal to solve these problems. Together with our partner organisation, the MOT, an analysis on the Hungarian borders had been carried out.

The European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH) was jointly established by the European Investment Bank and the European Commission in 2015 with the aim of helping the European fund for strategic investments to achieve their objectives by providing advice and technical services for them. The Platform supports the identification, preparation and development of investment projects in the whole territory of the EU, regardless of the size of the projects and their possible sources of funding.

The project, that ends in the summer, is important as the European Investment Bank would play a more prominent role in the professional support of cross-border infrastructural and integrated developments in the future, for which, they would like to map out the obstacles and bottlenecks faced by project promoters.

During the project, the partners carried out a comprehensive survey based on a common methodology, which was carried out along the Hungarian borders by CESCI with an online questionnaire and 28 personal interviews. With the help of these, CESCI examined a number of projects and project ideas along the Austrian, Slovakian, Romanian, Croatian and Slovenian borders. At the end, CESCI and MOT have put together four pilot project packages:

1. On the Hungarian-Romanian border area, the integrated landscape management, the human resource development, the agricultural innovation and the development of energy are in focus.
2. The project package planned at the Slovak-Hungarian border aims to develop an entrepreneurial and logistic zone.
3. The projects of the Croatian-Hungarian region focus on the creation of nature conservation, water management and ecosystem-friendly tourism.
4. At the Austrian-Hungarian border, priority is given to the problem of the railway network’s bottleneck.

The identified obstacles included economic, financial, legal, administrative, political and institutional ones too, for the elaboration of which a complex package of proposals was elaborated.