Priority 1
Environmental focus across borders

Construction / rehabilitation / modernization of infrastructure related to systems/structures dealing with fires, floods, strengthening the banks of rivers, canals, the condition of dams, afforestation of river banks, preservation, revitalization and re-naturalization of water bodies and ecosystems, preservation and restoration of small rivers, including in collaboration with local civil society on both sides of the border.

endowment with necessary equipment to address emergency situations (firefighting equipment, floods, etc.), hardware, software, vehicles, etc.

for hazard management and risk prevention including joint action plans, technical and operational measures meant to ensure real-time coordinated actions, risk plans, intervention procedures, exercises, public awareness campaigns in collaboration with local civil society organisations, elaborating of updated joint operational plans and procedural framework for efficient management and deployment of joint interventions, hydrological monitoring of rivers, water temperature, precipitation measurements, ice regime and other types of monitoring conducted at the initiative of local civil society.

joint training programmes, networking, exchanging experience and knowledge, including raising awareness in the field of efficient risk prevention and management in the cross-border area with the participation of local civil society and volunteers;

improving human and technical capacity and modernizing monitoring equipment of protected areas;

(research activities, inventory of resources, protection of endangered species, eradication of invasive species, afforestation etc.);