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We would like to inform that on the 24th of December 2021, the office of the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Poland-Russia Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020 will be closed. We would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

On the 15th of December, 2021, a new 108-meter-long bridge on the Łyna River in Bartoszyce in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Region was officially opened. Moreover, in the same town a reconstruction of the regional road no. 512 along Poniatowskiego Street in Bartoszyce (about 590 meters) and the construction of a completely new road section with a length of 641.5 meters were conducted. The investment, exceeding PLN 51 million zlotys of the total cost, was one of the key projects implemented within the Poland-Russia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020, receiving co-financing from the Programme in the amount of 7.2 million EUR.

On the 6th of December, 2021, representatives of the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Poland-Russia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020 participated in the European Congress of Local Governments in Mikołajki. The event was held within the slogan ‘Europe after the pandemic: How to rebuild the local economy?’. Among the most important topics discussed during the panels, there were cross-border cooperation, financing regional development, smart solutions and creating favorable conditions for investment

We are happy to inform that the first regular project in our Programme has completed all the planned activities.

Last Friday (26th November), the 1st Polish-Russian Festival ‘Magic of the North’ took place. Among many invited guests, there were: Mr Sergey Semenov, Consul General of the Russian Federation in Poland and Mr Leszek Buller, Director of the Center for European Projects. The meeting was also attended by Mr Alexander Kitaev, Head of Administration of the Gusev Municipal District, who took part in the event online

On Wednesday, (24th November, 2021) the grand opening of the warehouse building with its museum collection took place in Olsztynek. Among the invited guests there were: representatives of the Managing Authority and the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Poland-Russia CBC Programme 2014-2020, local and regional government and museologists. During the event, the ribbon cutting ceremony was held. Moreover, a foundation act (document containing all information about the object) was signed and submitted to a copper. The ceremony was graced with a concert of the Babsztyl band. At the end of the event, there was a tour around the warehouse, during which the guests were presented with modern shelving systems for storing museum items

The former Prussian land may be discovered by following marked trails. You can also get familiar with them virtually thanks to the interactive map, which was created as part of the project ‘Tourism beyond the boundaries – tourism routes of the cross-border regions of Russia and North-East Poland’

Please be informed that the draft of the strategic part of the Programme document of the Poland-Russia CBC Programme 2021-2027 is available in national languages! The documents translated into Polish and Russian are available on the Programme website, in the tab ‘PL-RU 2021-27’ – ‘Documents’

We would like to inform you that we extended the deadline for the registration to the online consulting meetings of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Report of the project of the Interreg Poland-Russia Programme 2021-2027 by 8.11.2021 (till 1 pm.). More information about the event you can find in our post on 27.10.2021

Please have a look at the short video presenting the bike ride „Giżycko-SoVeTSK”, organised within the project “Giżycko and SoVeTSk – cooperation for the development of preservation of the historical, cultural and natural heritage of the cross-border area”. It took place last month in Giżycko.