Ukraine Winners Competitive Tender

56 projects worth over UAH 535 million have been selected and will be recommended for funding in 2021. The relevant decision was made by the Competition Commission for the selection of regional development projects that can be implemented at the expense of the state budget received from the EU.This year the largest number of regional development projects related to tourism and innovation economy was submitted. During the selection experts and the tender commission paid attention first of all to the complexity of projects their socio-economic effect for cities and regions as well as the applicants ability to support the project in the future said Minister of Community Development Oleksiy Chernyshov. is the chairman of the tender commission.This is the second competitive selection of projects that can be implemented at the expense of the state budget received from the EU. Next year UAH 551.6 million is provided for the implementation of these projects.Among the key changes in the second competitive selection is the increase of regional development programs from 5 to 7 as well as the expanded range of applicants. This year for the first time regional development agencies and local governments including those that are centers of newly formed communities were able to independently apply for participation in the competitive selection.Acceptance of documents for competitive selection lasted from September 3 to November 3 2020. Applicants from all regions of Ukraine submitted 739 projects totaling UAH 8.4 billion under the following regional development programsinnovative economy and investmentsrural developmenttourism developmenthuman potential developmentsupport for the development of depressed areaseffective management of regional developmentall-Ukrainian solidarity.Most projects were received under the programs Tourism Development - 219 Innovative Economy and Investment - 137 and Support for the Development of Depressed Areas - 106.Leaders in the number of submitted projects Lviv region - 68 and Odessa - 54. Among the central executive bodies the most active was the Ministry of Education and Science.It will be recalled that the first competitive selection took place in 2017-2018 and based on its results 70 projects in 5 areas worth over UAH 616 million were selected.The Ministry of Regional Development draws attention to the fact that within 10 days of the decision of the commission the applicants of the winning projects must submit to the Ministry of Regional Development the documents specified in paragraph 5 of the Procedure for competitive selection of regional development projects. to participate in paper form at the address 03150 Kyiv st. Business 24 of. 909.The project applicant is responsible for the identity of the electronic and paper form of the set of project documents submitted for competitive selection.