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The Association for zone development of Medgidia (ADZM), located on the border between Romania and Bulgaria has just joined the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière network.
Located in south-eastern Romania, in Constanta County, the ADZM is a public - private associative institution. Its territory, covering an area of 629 km², is essentially rural and its main activity is agriculture. It has a population density of 52 inhabitants per km². It includes Medgidia, a Romanian town of 45,000 inhabitants located on the intersection of several communication routes: motorway, river and railway. Cross-border cooperation is conducted mainly between the territory of Medgidia and that of Silistra, in the north-east of Bulgaria.
The objectives of the ADZM association are to increase the social capital of population, to strengthen the community spirit, to promote local actions based on local citizens initiatives and to improve their quality of life. The association endeavours not only to enhance the dynamics and cooperation between these territories, but also to guarantee access to top-quality services.
The ADZM, in its quality as urban and rural municipalities association, participated in the preparation of the local strategy for development. It also conceived in the period 2007/2009 five joint collaboration projects between Medgidia and Silistra areas.
These are mainly concerned with town and country planning, infrastructures, environment, and economic development: for example the project "Business without borders" aims at making tools for cross-border economic cooperation in the field of transport infrastructure and services in the Industrial Park of Medgidia. Another flagship cross-border project named "Nature of friendship without frontiers" wants to restore ecosystems through afforestation of the Medgidia area of 350 hectares and an Inspection Center for training for natural resources. A third project of the ADZM, "Border route" consists in building an access road to facilitate the connection between the north of Bulgaria and the Industrial Park of Medgidia.
http://www.galmedgidia.ro
Viewpoint: Constantin Livadariu, Executive director of the Association for zone development of Medgidia (ADZM)
Source: Cross-border news, No. 52, September 2009
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