FUNCTIONAL DANUBE AREAS - Enhancing Institutional Capacities for Managing Functional Urban Areas in the Danube Region
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B DanubeDescription
Synthesis pilot report on the experience of planning concerning different pilot topics at FUA level(EN)
FUA integrated planning and management methodology(EN)
FUA integrated governance strategy(EN)
Involved organisations in the transnational capacity building process(EN)
FUA-NET Memorandum of Understanding documents (EN)
Applying the FUA concept to strengthen urban-rural linkages(EN)
Thematic information
Priority:
(VI-B_D_4) Priority 4 - A better cooperation governance in the Danube RegionPriority specific objective:
ISO6.6. Other actions to support better cooperation governance (all strands)Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective):
PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governanceType of intervention:
171 Enhancing cooperation with partners both within and outside the Member StatePartners (11)
Lead Partner: Lechner Nonprofit Kft.
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 24225221-2-43
Department: Department of Spatial Experts / Division of Spatial Experts and Spatial Data
Address: Budafoki út, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
Department address: Buidafoki út, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://lechnerkozpont.hu/en
Total budget: EUR 370 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 296 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 74 000.00
Contractors:
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Name: ITI Magyarország Kft.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 25335433241
- Know How n.o.
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Name: Know How n.o.
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SK2022459076
Address: Hviezdoslavova, 08001 Presov , Slovakia
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: https://know-how.center/
Total budget: EUR 250 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 200 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 50 000.00
- Centralnoevropska služba za prekogranične inicijative na Balkanu
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Name: Centralnoevropska služba za prekogranične inicijative na Balkanu
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 106619263
Address: Bulevar Mihajla Pupina, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: http://www.cesci-balkans.eu
Total budget: EUR 161 100.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 128 880.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 32 220.00
- Primaria Municipiului Chisinau
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Name: Primaria Municipiului Chisinau
Department: General Directorate of Architecture, Urbanism and Land Relations / DGAURF
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 1007601010323
Address: Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Boulevard, MD-2012 Chișinău, Moldova
Department address: Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Boulevard, MD-2012 Chișinău, Moldova
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: https://chisinau.md/
Total budget: EUR 160 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 128 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 32 000.00
- Місцева асоціація органів місцевого самоврядування «Агенція розвитку ОТГ Прикарпаття»
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Name: Місцева асоціація органів місцевого самоврядування «Агенція розвитку ОТГ Прикарпаття»
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 41940030
Address: Nezalezhnosti, 76018 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Sectoral agency
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/155499985109673
Total budget: EUR 160 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 128 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 32 000.00
- Regionální rozvojová agentura Plzeňského kraje, o.p.s.
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Name: Regionální rozvojová agentura Plzeňského kraje, o.p.s.
Partner’s ID if not PIC: CZ-25245091
Address: Riegrova, 30100 Plzeň, Czech Republic
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Total budget: EUR 160 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 128 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 32 000.00
- Agentia pentru Dezvoltare Regionala Sud-Vest Oltenia
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Name: Agentia pentru Dezvoltare Regionala Sud-Vest Oltenia
Department: Directorate of Programming and Programme Managing
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 116422243
Address: Aleea Teatrului, 200402 Craiova, Romania
Department address: Aleea Teatrului, 200402 Craiova, Romania
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://www.adroltenia.ro/
Total budget: EUR 220 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 176 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 44 000.00
- Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije
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Name: Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI38747669
Address: Trnovski pristan, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.uirs.si
Total budget: EUR 170 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 136 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 34 000.00
- Regionalna razvojna agencija za Podravje - Maribor
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Name: Regionalna razvojna agencija za Podravje - Maribor
Department: Department for Regional Development
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI33925950
Address: Pobreska cesta, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Department address: Pobreska cesta, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Sectoral agency
Website: https://rra-podravje.si/
Total budget: EUR 260 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 208 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 52 000.00
- Sarajevska regionalna razvojna agencija
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Name: Sarajevska regionalna razvojna agencija
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 200816600000
Address: Kolodvorska , 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Sectoral agency
Website: http://www.serda.ba
Total budget: EUR 290 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 232 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 58 000.00
- Nyugat-Pannon Terület- és Gazdaságfejlesztési Szolgáltató Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.
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Name: Nyugat-Pannon Terület- és Gazdaságfejlesztési Szolgáltató Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 21464812-2-18
Address: Horváth Boldizsár krt., 9700 Szombathely, Hungary
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Sectoral agency
Website: https://www.westpannon.hu/
Total budget: EUR 240 082.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 192 065.60
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 48 016.40
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Summary
Project acronym: FUNDA
Project ID: DRP0300984
Project start date: 2025-04-01
Project end date: 2027-09-30
Project status:
ongoingRelevant linked projects:
- TPLAB (EN) | The TP LAB project was implemented in the cooperation of two Slovak and two Hungarian institutions, in the frame of Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme. The target area of the project included Bratislava and Trnava counties on the Slovak side and Győr-Moson-Sopron County on the Hungarian side. All these regions have shown substantial economic growth and an intensive agglomeration process - Bratislava, Győr - including cross-border suburbanization in the past few decades. At the same time the region has lots of natural, cultural and landscape values.
- The main aim of TPLAB project was to establish a jointly operated web map and data service centre (called GDSC) which supports multi-level spatial planning, territorial decision making, territorial monitoring, respectively sectoral and real estate investments with data, charts, interactive maps, and analytical tools.
- In the TP LAB, it was essential to harmonise concepts related to spatial planning and to harmonise different data and databases, as well as to develop common spatial indicators for many aspects of territorial processes. A technology for regular updating of spatial data from different data sources has been developed too.
- In FUNDA project, we aim to further develop transnational web-based mapping solutions to support the planning activities of the case study areas and to visualise and monitor the changes of spatial characteristics of pilot areas. In FUNDA project we would like to further develop the transnational web map service solutions in order to support planning activities of case study areas, and display the results of the pilot studies. (EN), ATTRACTIVE DANUBE (EN) | From 2017 to 2019 Lechner Non-profit Ltd. has been participated in ATTRACTIVE DANUBE project as a project partner. The main project objective was to strengthen multilevel and transnational governance and institutional capacities of policy planners involved in territorial development by establishing a permanent common transnational platform for monitoring territorial attractiveness. Lechner was in charge of policy coordination, whose experience can be used for transnational capacity building in the FUNDA project, and the lessons learned from the ATTRACTIVE DANUBE project to build a common and national monitoring platform can be integrated into the development of the common data platform planned in the FUNDA project. (EN), URBACT (EN) | Before 2022, Lechner Non-profit Ltd. had been the Hungarian contact point for the URBACT programme. URBACT is an international urban development programme that builds a European network of cities. The tasks of the URBACT National Contact Point include providing information to partner cities, disseminating and training in the URBACT Community-based Integrated Action Planning methodology, running the programme's Hungarian language website, supporting the Hungarian member of the URBACT Monitoring Committee. The contact point facilitates the exchange of experience between the Hungarian cities participating in the URBACT programme and the provision of information to representatives of Hungarian cities and local organisations.
- The experience gained in the URBACT programme can be used and developed - among others - in the implementation of FUNDA FUA-NET activities. But it can support the FUNDA activities related to knowledge exchange between partners, the collection of best practices, and the elaboration of baseline study.
- Not only the experience gained in coordination and knowledge sharing, but also the knowledge and good practices acquired in the URBACT urban development themes could be useful, especially in supporting the implementation of FUNDA case studies.
- Some important URBACT topics appear in FUNDA project among the topics of case studies such as: green infrastructure, sustainable urban development, reduction of urban sprawl, circular economies etc.
- (EN), BAUM project (EN) | Since 2012, the Baum – Bratislava Umland management/ Bratislava Urban Regional Cooperation (http://www.projekt-baum.eu ) initiative has been a series of successive ETC projects that have targeted introducing harmonized development in the cross-border region between Austria and Slovakia. As a joint effort of provinces of Lower Austria and Burgenland (AT), the City of Bratislava and Bratislava Self-Governing Region (SK), BAUM’s aim has been to establish a platform for all stakeholders in the BAUM region to direct its spatial development. A cross- border urban regional cooperation management structure, baseline studies, a joint spatial planning concept and harmonized spatial databases were established, creating the common platform creating the conditions for further regional development and consensual foundations for systematic project development focusing on topics of clean mobility, cross-border public transport systems(to reduce heavy and increasing commuting by car), spatial planning/land use issues (to deal with the rapid population growth in the area), nature and recreational areas, agriculture and forestry (for safeguarding and sustainable usage of large protected and valuable natural areas in the common agglomeration). By today, an institutionalized common governance platform is coordinating the activities, involving permanently around 25 organizations in cross-border institutional and supports the generation and development of smaller cross-border projects. FUNDA can capitalize on outcomes and lessons learned in BAUM as a good practice of planning and managing functional urban areas in a spatial cross-border context in the topics highlighted above. Furthermore, as Mosonmagyaróvár city is located in the HU border area near to Bratislava, direct sinergies can be achieved with complementary planning and future cross-border activities based on it. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 441 182.00
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 952 945.60
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%
Co-financing sources:
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
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RCO 120 - Projects supporting cooperation across borders to develop urban-rural linkages, Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
Programme Result Indicator:
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ISI - Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across the borders, Measurement unit: No. of organisations
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSDR
Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Danube
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-12-17
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
138 / 138 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
1 413 / 1 413 (100%)
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