#ACCESS is a strategic project of the Interreg Hungary – Slovakia Programme

Priority axis: PA3 – Institutional cooperation

Specific objective: SO3.1 Strengthening more effective public administration by means of rights and administrative cooperation

Activity: 3.1.1 – Elimination of cross-border obstacles).

Name of the Programme: Interreg VI-A Hungary – Slovakia Programme

Title of the project: Promotion of legal accessibility across the Slovak-Hungarian border

Acronym of the project: #ACCESS

Project ID: HUSK/2301/3.1/010

Lead partner: CESCI Budapest (LB)

Partner: CESCI-Carpathia Košice (P2)

ERDF contribution: 1,401,837.96 €, (CESCI Budapest: 841,927.56 €; CESCI Carpathia: 559,910.40 €)

State co-finance: 241,847.97 €, (CESCI Budapest: 157,861.41 €; CESCI Carpathia: 83,986.56 €)

Project start date: 1 May 2023

Project end date: 30 April 2029

Summary of the project: The main aim of the project is to systematically unfold the persisting legal and administrative obstacles hindering stronger integration and higher level of cooperation across the Slovak-Hungarian border; furthermore to promote their elimination. The main two interventions of the project are obstacle monitoring and obstacle management. As a result of the project, the partners will eliminate legal obstacles and develop solutions including a legal obstacles database, obstacle projects, legal recommendations and a sensitisation campaign addressing the authorities.