Due to the situation with CORONA 19 Virus and the impossibility to cross the border between Romania and Serbia, the 3rd Project Team meeting held electronically, using Skype application, on Wednesday, 20th of May 2020, at 11.30 o’clock. Serbian partners meet in Kikinda, at the premises of Kikinda City Hall, Trg srpskih dobrovaljaca 12. The meeting was leaded by the Project Manager – Biljana Vuksanović, with the presence of all PP representatives, according to following topics from the agenda:

• Overview of implemented activities on the project;
  Each partner presented the activities carried out so far. All activities planned by the dynamics of the Action Plan have been initiated, and the only delay relates to the implementation of A.T1.1 Round table and A.T1.3 Training and Competition of school children, both delays caused by situation with CORONA 19 virus.
• Debate on the most important activities that lie ahead and potential modifications of activity due to the situation with the virus
  Several activities may be affected and modified due to potential inability to maintain. partners considered and offered solutions for each activity:
  A.T1.1 Round table – Round table will be organized during month of June in electronic way
  A.T1.2 Regional economic fair – will be organized as planned, within manifestation “Pumpkin Days” in Kikinda, in October 2020 (if the situation will be normalized) or organization of the Fair will be in smaller scale, possibly without Romania participants (if the borders stayed closed until then)
  A.T1.3 Training and Competition of school children – Education of school children will be organized in September when schools reopen. Contest of school children will be organized in the same period, possibly without Romanian participants if the borders stayed closed, or will be postponed for the early 2021.
  A.T1.4 Cross-border cooperation event -“Gastronomic route” – will be organized as planned – within EU mobility week in September 2020. If the borders stayed closed, will be organized in smaller scale, without Romanian participants, or will be postponed for spring 2021.
• Overview of the use of funds in half of the project implementation
  Discussion continued with the last points of the agenda, within which partners expose their spending until the end of third period. Namely, point 6 in PA talks about minimum total amount each beneficiary commits to spend and request for first level control by the end of the month marking the half of the implementation period is provided below (in our case end of 4th implementation period – 31st of July 2020). Beside the fact that situation with CORONA 19 virus jeopardized implementation in small scale, partners fulfill their obligation according to budget and spending forecast. After the discussion, it was concluded that only Municipality of Jimbolia might have a slight deviation from the planned plan, due to the fact that the competition for members of the project team was held in October 2019, ie in the first reporting period they did not have the opportunity to spend the funds planned in the budget line Staff. Partners will calculate in detail their spending until 4th period and it was agreed to do their best to achieve planed spending. If some partner would have delay in spending, they will notice to the LB about their individual delay in form of information notice and after that LB will prepare final justification at the project level.