The Bieszczady region is supposed to be close and friendly to the local inhabitants and, at the same time, green and enterprising. These are the objectives of Programme for Bieszczady. Today, among the representatives of the institutions involved in its implementation, we summarised the effects of the Programme.

A multimodal freight and fuel transhipment hub will be developed at Katowice Airport based on a railway siding. The project received a subsidy from the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency. The investment will be implemented under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) 2021-2027 Military Mobility.

Poland will receive 320.1 million Swiss francs under the second edition of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme (SPCP). An important step to mobilise this money is the SPCP Technical Assistance Agreement signed today. The document was signed by the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak and the Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation to Poland, Fabrice Filliez.

The status of implementation of projects co-financed by the Programme for Eastern Poland 2014-2020 (OPEP), information and promotion activities and preparation for the closure of the programme were the main topics discussed during the 16th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the OPEP. The online meeting, held on 11 May 2023, was attended by Deputy Minister Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak.

On the forthcoming weekend of 12-14 May we invite everyone to celebrate the 10th edition of the European Funds Open Days (DOFE). There will be plenty of attractions across the country - concerts, picnics, competitions with prizes, which will also be an opportunity to find out more about the projects that have been developed thanks to funding from the European Funds.

This is the 17th of 20 conditions - 4.4. National strategic policy framework for social inclusion and poverty reduction. The last 3 conditions remain to be confirmed.

The new edition of the Toddler+ (Polish: Maluch+) programme has been decided. This year's call for proposals was summarised by the Minister of Family and Social Policy, Marlena Maląg, the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Grzegorz Puda, and the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Family and Social Policy (MRiPS), Barbara Socha, Government Plenipotentiary for Demographic Policy.

We support local governments so that they have the funds available to supplement their own contributions for implementation of regional programmes. They will therefore receive more than PLN 8.7 billion from the state budget. This will increase the budget of all 16 regional programmes to over PLN 165.7 billion, announced the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Grzegorz Puda.

Investment with the highest chances for support from the EU funds in the 2021-2027 perspective, changes in applying for the EU funds, possibilities of financing own contribution in investments with the EU funds were the main topics of the panel during the European Economic Congress, which was attended by the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Grzegorz Puda. The afternoon panel on the “Railway infrastructure in Poland” was attended by Secretary of State - Marcin Horała.

The Accessibility Plus Programme, which is coordinated by the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, is now five years old. A two-day international conference is held at the ministry to celebrate the occasion. The meeting summarising the effects of the programme was opened by Minister Grzegorz Puda and Deputy Minister Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak.