TAPE realizations are underway
Project development | 25 March 2020
The SK-HU CBC programme initiated the tool of “territorial action plans for employment” (TAPE) during the 2014-2020 programming period. Its aim is to promote sustainable, high quality employment and labour mobility in the border area. The complex development plans are carried out in a predetermined, geographically connected, border area. The partners identified the territorial needs related to employment before submitting the application. The action plans that include interrelated projects offer solutions to satisfy these needs by creating new workplaces and promoting labour mobility. Many EGTCs have submitted action plans and won significant amounts of funding. In each of our newsletter we are going to report on the implementation of these starting with the TAPEs coordinated by the Pons Danubii EGTC and the Via Carpatia EGTC.
Projects of the Pons Danubii EGTC
The Pons Danubii EGTC, a regional coordinator, has submitted an application consisting of four projects to proposal of the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme’s third (employment) priority axis. The “Complex innovation program for creating jobs in the Pons Danubii Region” action plan (so called TAPE, Territorial Action Plan for Employment) won nearly EUR 2.5 million, which is used to build for example an innovation laboratory, a virtual technology studio and an incubator. They will also host trainings, dual education workshops and other events.
The Pons Danubii EGTC has submitted the NOVUM DANUVIUM action plan together with the town of Tata, the Government Office of Komárom-Esztergom County, Selye János University, regional secondary technical schools and Hungarian and Slovak SMEs (9 partners and 4 supporting partners altogether). The aim of the action plan is to ensure the long-term competitiveness and profitability of the automotive and technology industries by strengthening cooperation and employment potential.
The 32-month-long action plan contains several projects, which are going to enable these developments:
- Innovation laboratory (Tata): A shared development center for SMEs, for planning metalworking, and producing and testing prototypes and samples for it.
- Virtual technology studio (North Komárom): Mobile demonstration and development environment for presenting developed information technology and carrying out trainings.
- Dual education workshops (Tata): Material testing workshop at a practice location with demonstrational/educational equipment.
- Career orientation services: Package of services aimed at seniors in secondary technical schools and university students to ensure the automotive and technology labour supply in the region.
- Complex ‘FABLAB’ (North Komárom): A multifunctional innovation facility with well-equipped product developing workrooms, conference rooms and incubation offices for technological start-ups.
- Network of business clubs: An innovative network model enabling the cooperation of Hungarian and Slovak businessmen.
The overall budget of the projects is approximately EUR 2.7 million, 90% of which is EU fundung or national aid. The developments are expected to happen between January and August 2020, and they will probably create 50-150 new workplaces in the next 5-15 years. The action plan directly created 6 workplaces.
Click here for further information on the Interreg V-A SK-HU Programme website.
Projects of the Via Carpatia EGTC
The Via Carpatia EGTC submitted an action plan dealing with unemployment in the Cserehát micro-region, which covers the rural region of 75 Hungarian and 26 Slovak local administrative areas between Košice and Miskolc. The main topic of the action plan is local production, which could hugely contribute to the developing the region and increasing competitiveness. Factories producing local product, 5 marketplaces, education centers and a so called Saint Stephen house are going to be built. In the Saint Stephen house, educational programmes will be hosted, which are going to help long-term unemployed people get back to the labour market. The ‘Szép Cserehát’ regional brand is going to be established as well, which will help identifying quality products made in the micro region. The total budget of the action plan is EUR 4.5 million. 15 partners take part in executing the developments.
The Via Carpatia EGTC developed the Employment Cross-border Action plan of the Cserehát micro-region together with 14 partners, including SMEs, municipalities, schools and nonprofit organisations. The main topic of the action plan is local production, which could hugely contribute to the developing the region and increasing competitiveness. The 36-month-long action plan contains 7 projects, which are going to create 11 more workplaces.
Factories producing local product, 5 marketplaces, education centers and a so called Saint Stephen house are going to be built. In the Saint Stephen house, educational programmes will be hosted, which are going to help long-term unemployed people get back to the labour market. The ‘Szép Cserehát’ regional brand is going to be established, which will help identifying quality products made in the micro region. The action plan also includes agricultural events and the organisation of a regional EXPO, which are going to contribute to making the region more visible and appealing.
The execution of the action plan began on the 1st of August 2019, when the execution of the coordination and communication application began. The main initator of this application was the Via Carpatia EGTC. The execution of three more applications began on the 1st of September 2019, then the Employment Cross-border Action Plan began and the launch conferences of 4 applications happened on the 27th of November. The procurement process of the applications is happening now, then the construction work is going to begin in spring 2020. The groundbreaking ceremony is going to take place in April 2020.
Click here for further information on the Interreg V-A SK-HU Programme website.
