Why are the small local actors so important to us?
They are an extremely important element of democracy – on a local scale:
- express the aspirations and unmet needs of small communities
- create and differentiate social opinion
- act in favour of minority interests
- care about the common good
- are an element of social integration
- support the development of many important areas of life
- support business development
- initiate social changes and raise social awareness
- have an intervention function
- complement the state’s activities
- prepare for work and educate leaders, and in many cases they also employ
See more: www.umbrellaproject.eu
UMBRELLA is partly financed from the Interreg South Baltic Programme 2014-2020 through the European Regional Development Fund.
Project name (EN): Boosting cross-border cooperation capacities of local actors in the South Baltic Sea
Project acronym: UMBRELLA
Project start date: 2018-01-01; Project end date: 2020-06-30
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 986.566,00
European Union funding: EUR 786.652,00
