The 18-month project was worth EUR 299,000, of which 231,000 came from the EU's Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance fund. It was carried out in cooperation with the Open University of Subotica, Serbia and the cities of Osijek and Subotica.
The aim of the project was to encourage small and medium enterprises to sell their products online, in order to increase competitiveness and product placement, BIOS director Ivo Koski said, adding that a web platform had been designed, bringing together 270 companies offering a thousand products.
The director of the Slavonia and Baranja Regional Development Agency, Stjepan Ribic, said 110 projects had been submitted in the first tender of the Croatia-Serbia Cross-Border Programme worth EUR 25 million, although only EUR 2.8 million was available.
Eleven projects have been greenlighted and nine are being implemented in Osijek-Baranja County, Ribic said, adding that about EUR 9 million had been approved for projects as part of the Croatia-Hungary Cross-Border Programme.
He said 221 projects worth EUR 99 million had been approved in Osijek-Baranja County for European funding and that upon Croatia's accession to the European Union, scheduled for July 2013, the value of the tenders for cross-border projects would increase significantly.