SEETAC's fifth project meeting held in Zagreb, Croatia
On 14th and 15th October 2010 SEETAC's 5th project meeting was
held in Zagreb, Croatia. The meeting was organised by the Croatian
Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure in
cooperation with the project Lead Partner - Central European
Initiative (CEI). Ms. Katarina Čop Bajde, Head of the Department
for Infrastructural Strategic Objects, opened the meeting by
underlining the importance of the project and its progress.
On 13th and 14th October 2010 the SEETO
steering committee took place and Ms. Čop Bajde strongly supported
the idea of combining the two events and she expressed her content
for the obtained results.
The Ministry had also organised a visit to the tunnel Mala
Kapela and its traffic control centre, where the participants
learned about the traffic and security systems applied to the
tunnel and its related infrastructures.
This project meeting was particularly relevant because Mr.
François Bégeot from the DG Mobility and Transport, Department for
International relations and Enlargement participated in the
discussion. Mr. Bégeot expressed the Commission's will to support
the project and the intention to create synergies with the work
carried out by the SEETAC Partnership. At the same time SEETAC
partners expressed their wish to cooperate closely with the
Commission during the whole process of data collection and
development of multimodal transport scenarios. Indeed, the project
aims at contributing to the ongoing TEN - T revision process, which
began 2 years ago. It was agreed that cooperation with the EC would
be strengthened and that dedicated meetings in Brussels, with
TENtec unit or other relevant actors will be organized, to put this
cooperation into practice.
Furthermore, SEETAC project partners presented the related
strategic programmes and projects, together with their financing
mechanism, both through national and EU funds. The discussion was
mainly focused on the ongoing data collection process and
methodology to be adopted in case of missing data. The methodology
will be further discussed among partners at the next project
meeting and will be approved through written procedure.
The Albanian Ministry of Public Works and Transport confirmed
that the next Transport Ministerial Conferences for the SEETAC
project will be held on November 16th 2010 in Tirana.
The participants discussed on the main issues to be raised during
the conference and actors to be involved in view of the future
project activities.
The next project meeting will be held on November
15th 2010 in Tirana.