Lenti Agency for Microregional Development
 

The Local Government of Lenti has won a tender in the Hungary-Slovenia Phare CBC 2003. Programme. The tender has been submitted to the invitation titled "Maximisation of human resource potential”. Demand for the establishment of the Lenti Agency for Microregional Development has proved to be very high in the region, as the co-ordination of the opportunities held by Hungarian and EU tenders, and the local expectations of development made it necessary to train a specialist staff. The staff’s task is to co-ordinate the development needs and possibilities arising from the private, state-owned and non-profit sector of the economy.
The newly formed agency’s young graduate colleagues and their helpers are experts on different fields, and they complement each other in the fields of environment protection, economics, computer sciences, agriculture, human resource management and tourism.
Tasks of the Agency include monitoring tenders, preparing offers on the topics to be applied for, prividing regular information about new potentials, preparing tenders, coordination of project implementation, organisation of specialists’ meetings and study tuors, gathering organisations interested in development, making a database on developments, contribution to joint activity programmes of the region, advising and keeping in contact with the settlement of the microregion


OUR RESULTS
 

• Almost 50 successful tenders in 1 year – gaining approximately 300 million HUF from domestic and EU sources.

• Homepage of Lenti Agency for Microregional Development, providing a vast amount of information about the Agency, the settlements, economy, tourism of the microregion, etc. - www.tersegfejlesztes.hu.

• Assembling a database based on local development documents (development plans, local questionnaires, environmental concepts, etc.) - www.tersegfejlesztes.extra.hu

• A complex monitoring of the development needs of the microregion's population, settlements, agriculture, industry, tourism and non-profit sector by using a questionnaire.
  Making studies based on the monitoring.

• Helping to organise different occasions and conferences (XI-XII. Regional Market Along Mura, "House of Tradition on Bell-Towers' Land"- final conference, etc.)

• Organising microregional Non-Governmental Day and voluntary litter-picking. We have also organised forums for the non-governmental sector of the microregion.
   

REGIONAL INNOVATIVE PROJECTS

• Interreg III/A Slovenia-Hungary-Croatia 2004-2006 3 tenders won - "e-region", "MURÁNIA Multiculture" és "Values of the Kerka-valley".

• Interreg III/A Austria-Hungary Microproject tender 8 submitted tenders.