(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 04 GEN - The Central European Initiative (CEI) will co-finance 11 projects dealing with the management of the migratory crisis in Central and Eastern Europe.

The total of 96.000 euros of support has been approved in the framework of the Extraordinary Call for co-financing Cooperation Activities related to migration and security issues, launched last August by the CEI Cooperation Fund, financed by all CEI Member States.

The applicants included the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS), the inter-ministerial Balkan Initiative for Migrants and Refugees (MARRI), the Foundation of the NATO Defense College, the Strasbourg-based Association for Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA), the Ukrainian University of Ivano-Frankivsk, the Vienna-based Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, the European Movement (Macedonia), the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (Albania), the Trieste-based International Solidarity Consortium (ICS), and a number of other organisations from Slovenia and Serbia.

Most of the approved projects will start their implementation during the first trimester of 2016.(ANSA).