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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.

On the 5th of November (Friday) at 6 p.m. the Museum of Archaeology and History in Elbląg will hold a unique double opening of new exhibitions. After a long break, in a refreshed setting and on a slightly limited area, the exhibition “Testimonies. History in faces – faces of history” will have its comeback. It will also be the first chance to see an exhibition titled “ City of new people. Elbląg in the first post-war decade 1945 – 1955” being a chronological follow-up to “Testimonies”

Yesterday public consultations regarding the Strategic Environmental Assessment Report of the project of the Interreg Poland-Russia 2021-2027 Programme have started. More information here: https://www.plru.eu/en/news/835,We-would-like-to-invite-you-to-take-part-in-the-public-consultations-regarding-the-Strategic-Environmental-Assessment-Report

In relation to the preparation of the new Interreg Poland-Russia 2021-2027 Programme and the obligation to conduct a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), we launched public consultations on the Strategic Environmental Assessment Report, which is the basis for the procedure being conducted

The 10th Forum of Regions – Partners of the Kaliningrad Region was held on the 7th and 8th of October, 2021 in Svetlogorsk. The organiser was the Regional Agency for international and interregional relations. The event was attended by Mr Igor Kapyrin, Deputy Director of the Department for European Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr Normunds Popens, Deputy Director, the General Directorate for EU Regional Policy and other officials. Participants from Poland, Norway, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Sweden, Lithuania and other countries have joined the online forum. The main topics of the reports are related to the green and digital economy, cross-border cooperation, culture, tourism and climate change.