PAIiIZ in a new project “Economic Promotion of Eastern Poland”

On Agu.18, the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ) and the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) signed a contract to prepare a new project - “Economic Promotion of Eastern Poland”.

The agreement will entitle PAIiIZ to intensify the agency’s work on the preparation of the project - “Economic Promotion of Eastern Poland”. The program is to be prepared in close co-operation with the involved regions’ representatives and a special working group established in PARP. In accordance with the agreement the subsidy application will be submitted in PARP in the 1st Q2009 and the project’s realisation is planned to start in the 3rd Q2009.

In February 2008 the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency became a beneficiary of the individual project within the 4.1 priority of the Operational Programme - Development of Eastern Poland (EPD OP) and is to be responsible for the preparation, coordination and the subsidy settlement of the promotional project.

The Operational Programme devised for Eastern Poland involves five Polish voivodships with the lowest GDP per capita in the EU (before the accession of Bulgaria and Romania) i.e. the Lublin, Podkarpacie, Podlasie, Świętokrzyskie and Warmińsko-Maurksie vovivodships. The main idea behind the programme is to prop up the less developed Eastern regions and thus to eliminate the social and economic disproportion between the Eastern Poland and the rest of the country. The project’s goals are to be achieved by means of information and promotion activities targeted at investors interested in the regions as well as by facilitating the self-government representatives’ and entrepreneurs’ participation in international thematic fairs, exhibitions, conferences and trade missions, all this is to be coupled with an advertising campaign of all the regions.

Source: PAIiIZ

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