GENERAL INFORMATION
Institution (original language)	Nyugat-dunántúli Regionális Fejlesztési Ügynökség Közhasznú Nonprofit KFT
Institution (in English)	West Transdanubian Regional Development Agency Non-profit Limited Liability Company
Legal status	body governed by public law
Address	Csatkai utca 6.
Postal code	H-9400
Town	Sopron
Country	Hungary
NUTS level 1*	DUNANTUL
NUTS level 2*	NYUGAT-DUNANTUL (HU22)
NUTS level 3*	Gyor-Moson-Sopron
Fax	+36-99-512-919
E-mail	peter dot halinka at westpa dot hu
Website	www.westpa.hu/en
Contact person	Mr. Peter HALINKA
FORMER EXPERIENCE
Our competences and experience in the field tackled	The West Transdanubian Regional Development Agency (WTRDA) is an essential decentralised regional element of the national development institution in Hungary WTRDA is the Intermediate body of the West Pannon ROP 2007-2013 (financed by ERDF), so the direct linkage to Managing Authority is warranted. WTRDA is responsible for regional policy making WTRDA now participates in 7 ongoing EU co-financed projects (Central Europe, Interreg IVC, AT-HU ETC-CBC, SEE) WTRDA strongly stimulates the  professional networks of the region WTRDA is concerned in project generation and development
Our capacity to directly influence regional policies	WTRDA can directly influence the regional policy making processes since its central role in the regional policy design activities, therefore has strong linkages to the political players and to the decision makers on city/regional and national level WTRDA can capitalize project results due to its role in the ROP implementation (as Intermediate Body) WTRDA is the regional key player in the policy preparation processes for 2014-2020 WTRDA has got almost 70, employees incl. an international unit of 10 employees
Our capacity to directly influence local policies	The balanced local presence is ensured by having established offices in all 5 big cities of the Region which makes possible to contact with local stakeholders and to address and influence local policy making processes.
How we contribute to the content of the cooperation and benefit from it	Know how, knowledge and experience exchange with Hungary Study visits of experts and stakeholders Export and import of good practices Generation of subsequent international projects Building networks to influence EU policy making; joint lobbying WTRDA is open to 'capitalisation' type of projects as well as to theoretical works Closed loops concepts and cradle-to-cradle approaches are welcomed by WTRDA in all means
Our previous experience in interregional cooperation and Structural Funds financed projects	WTRDA had the full responsibility for programming the West Pannon ROP (2007-2013), and now WTRDA is the Intermediate Body of it. WTRDA has got a regional international strategy and is heavily involved in its implementation WTRDA is a voting member of several Joint Monitoring Committees (Interreg AT-HU, HU-CRO, HU-SK, SL-HU) WTRDA has 4 ongoing EU co-financed projects (RECOM2014, EURIS, SETA, Natur-Kulinarium) WTRDA participated in 23 successfully implemented EU co-financed projects (IRIS, CEBBIS, ESPAN, ICT-VN, Pimms Vapital, CENTROPE_tt, C2CN, RECOM, EDUCORB, Scinnopoli, HUSKI, Bridge2Growth, EUROCOOP, CEE-ClusterNetwork, BIS-RTD, HUMANKOOP, TECPARKNET, REGINS, GRIP IT, CLOE, Let's develope Europe - together!, Preparing regional actors for receiving Structural Funds during the planning period 2007-2013, How Brussels gets to the West Transdanubian Region?) WTRDA deal s with many types of projects such as business development, innovation, R&D, urban mobility, rural development, expert mobility and policy design