SWISS-HUNGARIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME
SWISS-HUNGARIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME – Period I
Programme management structure:
| Swiss Authorities on behalf of the donor Party |
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, acting through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Federal Department of Economic Affairs, acting through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Swiss Embassy and Swiss Contribution Office (SCO) in the Embassy of Switzerland |
| National Coordination Unit | Prime Minister’s Office |
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Implementing Body |
Széchenyi Programme Office Nonprofit LLC. |
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Certifying Authority |
Hungarian State Treasury |
| Audit Authority |
Directorate General for Audit of European Funds |
The Monitoring Committee is the decision-making body of the programme, which shall supervise and monitor the implementation of the programme.
Swiss-Hungarian Cooperation Programme (Period I.)
The European Union and Switzerland signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 27 February 2006, according to which Switzerland provided 1 billion Swiss Francs contribution to the 10 Member States joined the EU in 2004 in order to reduce economic and social disparities within the enlarged European Union. Hungary received a grant totalled a gross amount of 130 million Swiss Francs, taking the third place in the ranking list of the supported countries.
The Swiss Contribution was aimed at reducing social and economic disparities within Hungary and supporting the general convergence efforts of underdeveloped areas. During the Programme a total of 32 individual projects, 2 block grants, 1 Swiss scholarship programme, and 1 venture capital fund were supported and implemented.
The SZPO currently performs the intermediate body level follow-up tasks of the first period of the Swiss-Hungarian Cooperation Programme.
Description of the programme in Hungarian and in English (downloadable):
Swiss-Hungarian Cooperation Programme (PDF)
