Two successful visits at EEA and Norway Grants funded projects in Southern Romania

The delegation accompanied by representatives of the Norwegian Embassy in Bucharest and Innovation Norway Office visited Uttis company and the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (ANCPI) in Romania.

 

Active in the field of advanced metallurgical processes and nanotechnology, UTTIS Industries SA and its Norwegian partner EFD AS aim to establish a Romanian Industrial Heating Technology Center by investment in new production set up and in research and development facilities. With a total value of EUR 5 million and a grant amount of EUR 1,4 million, the project’s target is increase of productivity and improvement of the R&D capabilities to comply with the high standard requirements of the European market. The director general of UTTIS briefed the delegation with regard to their main activities in industrial production and in research and development highlighting the benefits of the grant to the overall outcome of the project.  The delegation was impressed by the progress in project implementation: a new building with two R&D facilities and two new production units being almost operational.

 

The next stop was at the headquarters and then to the operational buildings of the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration in Romania (ANCPI), promoter of an EEA funded project worth of EUR 1,9 million with a grant amount of EUR 1 million. The project “Land Administration Knowledge Improvement” aims at providing reliable spatial data and services in Romania, i.e. digitalized maps and geographic information that meet national and international requirements. The delegation visited the mapping production unit of the agency. The director general of the ANCPI gave briefings on the three main objectives of the project, establishing a mapping authority, a study and a training center meant to improve territorial planning. He also emphasized the very good cooperation with the Norwegian and the Icelandic partners, the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority and Land Registry of Iceland.

 

The two projects are funded through the two financial mechanisms, EEA Grants and Norway Grants, by which Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland contribute almost EUR 100 million to the reduction of social and economical disparities among the member states of the European Economic Area.