Duration: total Project duration 24 months, start date: 12th of July 2021, indicative end date 11th of July 2023.

Sector: Health / EU funded joint project between Lithuania, represented by National Blood Centre of Lithuania (NBC), National Transplant Bureau under the Ministry of Health Address (NTB) together with Central Project Management Agency (CPMA), represented by Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia.

EU donation: 1.500.000EUR

Description: The purpose of this two-year EU-funded twining project is to strengthen capacities and competences, as well as improve the functioning of relevant institutions within the SoHO system, with specific emphasis on the surveillance and inspectorate system. Building managerial, institutional, administrative, and technical capacity of the Ministry in charge of health/the Directorate for Biomedicine ought to qualify Serbia to implement EC directives that set standards for the quality assurance and safety testing, processing, donation, procurement, preservation, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components, organs, tissues and cells, for exchange of organs with other countries by meeting the conditions that the international foundation Eurotransplant sets for new members. The project partnership consists of Lithuania as Member State and Serbia as beneficiary country. The Ministry of Health (Directorate of Biomedicine) plays the central implementation role in Serbia.