«Each project implemented within the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme was carefully planned and responded to real, properly identified needs», said Swiss Ambassador Andrej Motyl. «The scale of our cooperation and its effects are unprecedented: 489 million Swiss Francs of support for Poland (nearly half of the total amount allocated by Switzerland to the assistance for the new EU member states); 58 large and 1,700 smaller projects; 1,600 schools and kindergartens supported by the programme promoting healthy and active lifestyles; 34,000 patients examined to detect hepatitis C infections infection; 25,634 solar panels installed; over 131,000 of asbestos removed. The figures are impressive, but the most important are the people behind the figures – those who wanted to improve the quality of their life and environment, those who had ideas how to do it and were ready to use our assistance. It is in this sense that the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme constitutes a perfect expression of the virtues that have been the foundation of the Swiss success: stabilising inclusion, subsidiarity and solidarity».

The 10-year implementation period for Switzerland’s enlargement contribution to the 10 central and eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 officially came to an end on 14 June 2017. Under the contribution, Switzerland supported 210 projects with a total of CHF 1 billion in order to contribute to reducing economic and social disparities among broad sections of the population living in the EU.

Final publication about the projects and results of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme is available in English (PDF, 19.9 MB) and Polish (PDF, 19.7 MB).

For a video summary of the results of our projects visit our Youtube channel.

A detailed summary of the final event is also available from the Programme’s website.