The Association for support of economic development – Local action group – Kochani (NGO LAG) has been legally registered in 2011. It has been formed under LEADER + program rules and its founding participants are representatives from public, business and NGO sector in municipality of Kochani.
Its mission is to support the economic development in the municipality of Kochani in all possible ways that might emerge as a result of the possibilities offered at the area of donor organizations, institutions as well as business sector.
The NGO LAG members are very active in the Association and work in different areas and levels during the project application process. There is no regular paid staff in the association, and for each project we choose a team according to hers/his competences. The Association has 35 active members and also over 40 voluntaries.
The NGO LAG has 9 successfully finished and 3 ongoing ERASMUS + projects.
Gathered experience of the members of Association in previously realized EU funded projects like FP7 program, South East Europe Program, IPA cross-border cooperation, as well as project financed by UNDP, USAID and GEF /Global Environment Fund/, established a very good preconditions for realization of the wide range of projects related to the topics of: energy efficiency and use of renewable energy resources, environmental issues, sustainable agricultural, supporting of inclusion of the vulnerable groups, increasing of youth entrepreneurship potential as well as implementation of “state of the art” ICT-based technologies and methods (use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and OER) in educational process in pre-school, primary and secondary educational institutions.
Tel: +38976281005
Marija Velichkova, President