The Commission of Coordination and north Regional Development (CCDR-N) is an organism desconcentrado of the Central Administration whose mission consists in promoting the conditions for the integrated and sustainable development north of Portugal (NUT II) and contribute to the cohesion of the Portuguese territory.

Endowed of administrative and financial autonomy, to the CCDR-N competes him coordinate and promote in the north Region the politics of Planing and Regional Development, Environment, Ordination of the Territory, Cooperation Interregional and Transfronteriza and of support to the Local Administration and to the Asociacionismo Intermunicipal. His commands of intervention also contemplate the management of regional operational programs, from the community bottoms of support to Portugal, and of other instruments of finance of the regional development.

Competitions in the project

The CCDRN coordinates, together with the AMTEGA the Definition of parameters to analyse and indicators. Likewise, it participates in the rest of planned activities in the project, between other functions the following:

• Organisation of technical days for the training and sensitisation to technical managers and politicians,
• Organisation of a seminar of face to define proposals to advance in the modernisation of the local Administration.

On the other hand, it participates in the activities of Management and Coordination and of Communication of the project, contributing the necessary data for the preparation of reports and spreading the project in his group, in collaboration with the rest of beneficiarios.