Arad

Arad County Council

  • Presentation of your region and organisation:

Location: located in the Western part of Romania, at the crossroads of national and international thoroughfares. Gateway between Western Europe and South – Eastern Europe, Arad has 4 points for crossing the border with Hungary -Nădlac, Vărşand and Turnu for traffic of people and goods, and the Curtici by rail, located on the Pan-European transport corridor IV. 

Arad County Council turns 30 this year.

30 years means vitality, energy, strength. All these can be found in public investments, in development projects, in the growth rate of Arad County!

Arad County Council, led by President Iustin Cionca, is one of the most efficient county councils in Romania in attracting European funds. Last year alone, with a contribution of 3 million lei from the money of the people of Arad, he managed to attract 123 million lei from European or national funds. He invested 2% and earned 98%. That means the entrepreneurial administration at the Arad County Council and respect for the community!

In the last five years, over 1350 specific development projects in the county have been financed from the budget of the Arad County Council. That means sidewalks, public roads, schools, kindergartens, chapels, street lighting.

But the most important investment directions were public health and the modernization of county roads.

In no other county in Romania are so many new hospitals being built as in Arad. The County Council therefore contributes to increasing the quality of life in the municipality and county.

Description of Arad County Council Foreign Relations Department:

The objectives of the external relations department, which coincide with part of the objectives of the Arad County Council are:

  1. Representing the interests of the Arad County Council in relation to the regions within the EU and outside the European space;
  2. Promoting the development potential of Arad County;
  3. Maintaining the dialogue with the European organizations of which the Arad County Council is a member as full members;
  4. Providing information within the communication network with the other specialized departments and compartments within the Arad County Council and the structures that function under the subordination and under the authority of the Arad County Council;
  5. Promoting and maintaining good collaboration relations with similar administrative units;
  6. Initiation, promotion and participation in projects with external partnership, within the organizations in which the Arad County Council is a member.

 

Key-characteristic of your region in regard to population/migration patterns (if available and relevant).

From an ethnic point of view, the population had the following structure: 82.7% Romanians, 13.0% Hungarians, 1.7% Rromi(Gypsies)  , 1.3% Germans, 0.3% Slovaks, 0.1% Ukrainians, 0.3 % Serbs and 0.6% other nationalities and undeclared population.

  • Presentation of your ongoing work on integration: 

The Arad County Council ensures the dissemination of the progress of all the activities proposed by the project both at the local and regional level, involving important stakeholders such as NGOs, cultural and administrative actors, as well as citizens.

What has your regions accomplished in terms of in integration policies so far? (make reference to any policy, strategy, project, action meaningful for integration in your region). Have you adopted the Intercultural Approach already?

  • Your role and expectations for the EU-BELONG project:

The project derives from the cooperation within the Network of Intercultural Regions (the network that exists within the AER) and will be implemented with the support of the Council of Europe. The project aims to include an intercultural dimension in the policy-making process at regional level, providing partners and through them to other interested regions, with key competences, methodologies and tools to design and implement comprehensive intercultural integration strategies by facilitating intercultural exchanges between newcomers and the local population.

  • Contacts for your region 

-Andrei Ando  [email protected]

-Lavinia Terpea [email protected]

– Anita Balaban [email protected]