Lead Partner:
Galati County Council (Galati, Romania)
Partners:
Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Galati (Galati, Romania)
Cross-Border Cooperation and European Integration Agency (Cahul, Republic of Moldova)
Cahul District Council (Cahul, Republic of Moldova)
Regional Fund for Support of Entrepreneurship in Odessa Region (Odessa, Ukraine)
PO Agency of Sustainable Development and European Integration “Lower Danube” Euroregion” (Izmail, Ukraine)
The overall objective:
The increase and the expanding of cross border cooperation between the institutional actors of Galati, Romania, Cahul, the Republic of Moldova and Odessa, Izmail, Ukraine with responsibilities in the economic regional development.
The specific objectives:

• the increase of the expertise level of the institutional actors for promoting and economic developing by making a solution exchange for solving common issues of the business sector;
• speeding the cross border communication between institutional public partners in order to promote the local economy.

Target group:
Public and private institutions that represent or provide assistance and support businesses in the project area – Galati County, Romania, Cahul District, Republic of Moldova, Izmail District and Odessa Region, Ukraine.

The project “Business environment – sustainable promotion and development” aims at developing 4 sectorial studies for local business, creating an online platform that will contain information on the economy of the area, drawing up 6 thematic guides in Romanian, English and Russian with themes chosen by business representatives from the target area, a catalogue of organizations working in the agro-food, an itinerant communication campaign whose actions will have as target group the business, and a thematic itinerant exhibition to promote regional economy.
The estimated results:

• 6 organized research visits of the project team, 1 cross border group to elaborate the analysis documents, a pre-study regarding the developing potential of the entrepreneurship in the regional cross border context, an analysis of the business opportunities on long term, an analysis for identifying the existing and necessary resources and services to support the local economy, an action plan to support the development of entrepreneurship in Lower Danube cross border region;
• 1 functional online platform (www.agrofood-lowdanube.ro) for the local economy, 6 thematic guides (in Romanian, Russian and English) on public-private partnership, the origin certificate, the standard in health and security, the corporatist social responsibility, the online cross border business, elaborating a business plan (1000 copies in Romanian language, 500 copies in Russian language and 300 copies in English for each type of thematic guide), 1.200 catalogues of the active organizations in the domain of Agro-food in the project region;
• 1 organized itinerant communication campaign for implementing 18 thematic seminars, three instructing sessions;
• 1 itinerant thematic exhibition in order to promote local business area.