Strengthening bilateral relations between Donor States and Beneficiary States is a major objective of the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021 and therefore of the Local Development Programme. In this respect, the Programme encourages and provides support to entities in Romania and Donor States acting in the Programme areas in order to meet, share information and experiences, discuss/ agree about future cooperation, establish partnerships and develop donor partnership projects to be financed under the Programme.

Cooperation between entities in Romania and entities from Donor States are encouraged and facilitated in order to make possible transfer of knowledge, experiences and best practices necessary in the preparation, implementation and sustainability of projects and, thus, on short term, to improve the implementation and results of the projects financed under the Programme and, on long term, to strengthen bilateral relations between the Donor States and Romania.