General information about Beskidy Euroregion

Beskids Euroregion was created in the year 2000 to promote the idea „Beskids without borders“, which was the initiative of representatives of towns and communities in Polish-Slovakia-Czech border area. On the Polish territory Beskids ER is situated in the border part of śląskie and małopolskie provinces, on the Slovakia territory it is spread over most of Žilina region and on the Czech side over most of the Frýdek-Místek district. Beskids Euroregion is built on three associations: 

• Association “Beskids Region” with the main office in Bielsko Biała
• „Združenie Región Beskydy” with the main office in Žilina
• Sdružení „Region Beskydy” with the main office in Frýdek-Místek

Beskids Euroregion is lead by a presidium that generally meets twice a year and consists of  members from national directorate boards. The Euroregion chairman is elected for one year. This function, involving managing duties within the region, has got a rotating system,  electees change regularly. In 2012 The Euroregion chairman is Igor Choma, the chairman of Slovak euroregion part, in 2013 chairmanship will be transferred to the Polish part of euroregion and will be taken over by Zbigniew Michniowski, chairman of the Polish part of Beskids Euroregion. In 2014 the presidency and all related duties like creating presidium, organizing regular cultural and sport ventures and managing the activity of the euroregion will be returned to the Czech part of the Beskids Euroregion.