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Know-How Exchange Programme

The Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) is a grant facility created in 2004 to support transfer of best practice and transformation experience from CEI EU to non-EU Member States. The Programme originates from the conviction that economic development in non-EU MS can be strengthened by transferring sound approaches (good practice) already in place in more advanced CEI countries.

In the CEI region, there are currently 9 EU and 9 non-EU members. Even though the non EU Member States have undergone a significant reforms process, in many areas they still lag behind the countries who are now part of the European Union. On the other hand, the EU countries – especially those which joined the EU zone in 2004 and 2007 – possess valuable transition experience that could be used by those economies undergoing a similar harmonisation process leading to EU membership.
 
By financing capacity building and technical assistance projects in the non-EU countries carried out by experts from the CEI EU zone, the objectives of the KEP are to:
 
  • Strengthen economic and social advancement of the CEI non-EU Member States;
  •  Help the recent EU members in their transformation from recipients to donors (emerging donors) of
    development assistance;
  • Promote principles of foreign development aid and support international collaboration among institutions in CEI member countries.