On April 25, 2018, the fifth session of the Council for Development of the East Planning Region was held in Probistip Municipality.

At the meeting, a decision was made to grant consent for the initiation of the procedure for the proclamation of protected areas Osogovski Planini and Čengino Kale in the Eastern Planning Region. The adoption of this decision was preceded by a brief presentation by the representatives of the Macedonian ecological society, which emphasized the most important achievements of these regions, as well as for the bills that follow in the process of proclamation of the protected area.

On March 5, 2018, the Fourth Session of the Council for Development of the East Planning Region was held in Delcevo Municipality.

The final accounts for the work of the Center for Development of the East Planning Region were adopted at the session, as well as on the accounts of the projects that were realized in the course of 2017.

On April 11^th 2018 in the "22 Septemvri" Hall in the municipality of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, the Regional Administration and Center for development of the East planning region organized a second one-day workshop on "Together for Greener, Bright and Cleaner Future" within the "Green Buildings for a Common Green Future - GREEN" project CB006.1.11.038, financed by the Interreg-IPA cross-border program Bulgaria-Macedonia 2014-2020. The thematic workshop was attended by high school students from "Ljupco Santov" -Kocani, "Vanco Prke" - Vinica and the Language gymnasium from Blagoevgrad. A total of 62 high school students attended the second thematic workshop. The event was opened by the Deputy Regional chairman, Ms. Antoaneta Jancheva and the Manager of the Center for development of the East planning region, Ms. Dragica Zdraveva. The lecturer at the second one-day thematic workshop was Dr. Stefan Kirilov

On March 29^th 2018 in the "22 Septemvri" Hall in the municipality of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, Regional Administration and the Center for development of East planning region organized a one-day "Climate changes" thematic workshop.

The construction activities for reconstruction of the municipal building in the municipality of Kocani are under way within the "Green buildings for common green future" - GREEN 038 project. The GREEN project is financed by the IPA cross-border program between Macedonia and Bulgaria 2014-2020 and is implemented by the Center for development of the East planning region in cooperation with the Regional Administration Blagoevgrad.

The Center for development of the East planning region as implementer of the "Project for improvement of the hospital environment of the PHI Clinical Hospital Stip through the procurement of ambulances", from the grant of the Japanese Embassy, ​​provided two ambulances for the PHI Clinical Hospital Stip. The purchase of two ambulances FIAT NEW DOBLO 1.3 Multijet Amb. will enable renewal of the fleet of the clinic with appropriate medical equipment. Thus, the whole process of patient transport and care will be at a higher level. With the help of new vehicles, the safety and comfort of the patients from the East Planning Region will increase, especially when transporting to clinics in Skopje, but also to specialized clinics in Ohrid, Bitola and Prilep.

On the 26.12.2017 in the municipality of Vinica, the third session of the Council for development of the East planning region was held.

At the meeting, the Financial Plan of the Center for Development of the East Planning Region for 2018 was adopted and the Annual Action Plan for 2018 was adopted for the implementation of the Programme for Development of the East Planning Region 2015-2019.

On the 26.12.2017 in the municipality of Vinica, the third session of the Council for development of the East planning region was held.

At the meeting, the Financial Plan of the Center for Development of the East Planning Region for 2018 was adopted and the Annual Action Plan for 2018 was adopted for the implementation of the Programme for Development of the East Planning Region 2015-2019.

The Center for Development of the East Planning Region on December 13, 2017 (Wednesday) in Hotel "IZGREV" in the Municipality of Stip organized a one-day workshop on "Strengthening the capacities and the significance of the regional development - establishing the coordination between the LED departments in the municipalities of East Planning Region and CDEPR ".