The project was intended to equip the internationalising Kuusamo border crossing point and the associated Kortesalmi border guard station infrastructure with appropriate and suffi cient border inspection equipment and devices as well as a backup power source. For the border guard station, the monitoring facilities necessary for border control and inspections were to be repaired, a helicopter landing area equipped with refuelling facilities built, and the existing living quarters (which were in poor condition) remodelled and converted into social and joint accommodation facilities. 50 percent of the project funding was received from the European Regional Development fund and 50 percent from the Finnish Border Guard.