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INTERREG II //Poland

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Examples of projects Vocational Training in Hotel and Catering Established in 1996/97, the main aim of this project has been to improve human resources through cross-regional co-operation in the areas of education and vocational training. More specifically, this project consisted of a pro- gramme based in the technical college of Pirna-Sonnen- stein in Germany, which gave more than 100 students - including 40 Czech ones - the opportunity to benefit from vocational training in the field of hotel management and Eligible areas catering. Moreover, at the end of the third year of training, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland all students (German as well as Czech trainees) can quali- (Border areas including Sächsische Schweiz, fy for a degree from IHK . Following the training, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis, Löbau-Zittau, , the Czech students can study for another year in Usti nad Weisseritzkreis, , Mittlerer Erzgebirskreis, Annaberg, Labem and Templice and receive a degree recognised by Aue-Schwarzenberg, , Reichenbach, , the Czech Republic. Plauen, Oelsnitz and the urban districts of Plauen and Görlitz.) Increasing competitiveness for SME’s Financing Set-up in January 1997, this project’s main goal has been Total cost: 215.705 million euro to improve cross-border technical co-operation between EC contribution: 151.717 million euro the EUROREGION /Labe in an attempt to help increase the competitiveness of the region’s SME’s and to help in the fight against structural weakness. Key project Areas of Intervention partners include; ROTECH, the institute for Berufliche Transport, other infrastructure, the environment 49.17% Bildung IFB Pirna, and the Industrie and Handelskammer Economic development and tourism 12.83% (from Germany), and Decin Technological Park and Agriculture 19.62% INTERKONTAKT (from the Czech republic). Although the Human resources 15.67% development of a technologically-orientated trade centre Technical assistance 2.71% in Sebnitz has been a major aim, the project also puts major emphasis on: technological transfers in SME’s with the aim in particular of closing technological gaps.

Environmental protection and landscape care The general objective of this project, which was set up in 1997, is to help develop and protect the landscape in the Sächsische Schweiz. One specific measure involves intro- ducing a herd of sheep into a nature reserve in Sächsische Schweiz to help make farming and cultivation of the land possible. Project leaders on the German side will help finance the project by commercialising mutton in their region. It is expected that students from the agricultural school in Decin will be able to learn the practice of sheep Contact herding, and in a follow-up project, four herds of fifty Mr W. Ehelechner sheep will be introduced to the Tisa-Sluknov region Bayerisches Staarsministerium für Wirtschaft, (Czech Republic) to help cultivate the land. Verkehr und Technologie, Prinzregentenstr 28 D - 80538 München Tel: + 49 89 21622690 Fax: + 49 89 21622685 19