The Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works and Head of the Managing Authority of the INTERREG - IPA CBC Programme between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia, Mrs. Nina Stoimenova held a working meeting in Blagoevgrad with local authorities, NGOs, museums, community centers and civil society from Southwestern Bulgaria in connection with the Campaign launched on November 9 to gather project ideas for implementation within the Integrated Territorial Strategy, which is part of the Program.
The priorities of the Program for the programming period 2021 - 2027 were presented at the meeting and clarifications were made to questions asked by local organizations.
At the end of the meeting, Deputy Minister Stoimenova encouraged those present to submit their project ideas to be reflected in the documents for the new programming period by applying the bottom-up approach in the process of their development.
