The Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda and representatives of 9 intermediate bodies participating in the system of implementation of European Funds for Social Development 2021-2027 (FERS) signed related agreements today.

‘Thanks to the Partnership Agreement negotiated by the Polish government with the European Commission, Poland is the largest beneficiary of the cohesion policy in the years 2021-2027; we have national and regional programmes approved by the European Commission for the implementation of this policy and we have also received the first advance payments to launch the programmes’, Minister Grzegorz Puda summed up the passing year 2022 from the perspective of the work done by the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy (MFiPR).

At the European Economic Forum – Łódzkie 2022, Deputy Minister Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak and Marshal Grzegorz Schreiber opened the debate on a new regional programme for the Łódzkie voivodeship.

The Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Minister of Climate and Environment, the Minister of Health and the Centre for EU Transport Projects (CEUPT) will implement selected measures under the European Funds for Infrastructure, Climate, Environment 2021–2027 programme. The Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda, representatives of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Ministry of Health and CEUPT signed the related agreements on Wednesday.

On 12 December this year, the European Commission approved the national programme entitled European Funds for Social Development for the years 2021-2027 (FERS), co-financed from the funds of the European Social Fund Plus.

It means that all regional programmes have already been accepted by the European Commission. On 7 December, programmes for the Lubuskie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Podlaskie, Pomorskie, Świętokrzyskie and Zachodniopomorskie voivodeships were adopted as the last ones.

It is the first regional programme officially adopted by Brussels for the new financial perspective’, Deputy Minister Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak said at the conference inaugurating the programme.

Poland will receive 320.1 million Swiss francs under the second edition of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme. Today, Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda and Swiss Secretary of State for Economy Helene Budliger Artieda signed an agreement to this effect in Warsaw.

The Accessibility Plus program, challenges of the open labour market and the role of professional and social insertion of people with diagnosed disabilities are the main topics of the Congress organised on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Deputy Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak participated in the event that took place in Rzeszow.

A conference on accessibility in the social and vocational fields is being held in Lublin on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The event was attended by the Deputy Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak.