Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and Dialogue between Turkey and the EU–II (CCH-II)

Deadline: 28 January 2020

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals for its Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and dialogue between Turkey and the EU–II (CCH-II).

Objectives

The global objective of this call for proposals is the promotion of civil society dialogue by means of culture, arts and cultural heritage through the improvement of international cooperation on cultural heritage and promotion of cultural values in Turkey.
The specific objective of this call for proposals is the promotion of cross-border dialogues and networking between civil society organisations (CSOs) in Turkey and the EU in the areas of culture and arts including creative sectors and cultural heritage.

Priorities

The priorities of this call for proposals are:

To support cultural and creative sectors – all sectors whose activities are based on culture and other contemporary individual or collective creative or artistic expressions (such as: architecture, libraries, artistic crafts, design, festivals, literature, performing arts, visual arts).
To promote cultural heritage – focusing on such as archaeological sites, museums, monuments, historic cities, historic artworks, archives, historic literary, story-telling.
To develop audio-visual content – such as music, documentary film, short film, cinema, television, radio, video games, multimedia.

The proposed projects should fall into at least one of the three priority areas mentioned above with focus on the dialogue among the lead applicant, the co-applicant(s), the affiliated entity(ies) and the associate(s).

Size of Grants

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

Minimum amount: EUR 60.000
Maximum amount: EUR 150.000

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant: In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person
- be non-profit-making
- be established in a Member State of the European Union or Turkey or an eligible country according to IPA II Regulation
  - For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. Unless sector-specific eligibility rules provide otherwise, if the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, applicants will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible to participate) or will be required to leave the project on the basis of the general conditions of the grant agreement.
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary
- be a CSO, from Turkey (associations, foundations, federations/confederations of associations/foundations; cooperatives )
- be a CSO from an EU Member State or other eligible countries except Turkey (associations; foundations; federations /confederations of associations/foundations; entities established as not-profit companies/charitable organisations ; cooperatives).
Co-applicant(s)
- A lead applicant from Turkey must have at least one eligible co-applicant from the EU Member States and a lead applicant from EU Member States must have at least one eligible co-applicant from Turkey. A lead applicant from other eligible countries must have at least one co-applicant from Turkey and at least one co-applicant from an EU Member State.
- Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
- Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself. In addition to the categories, the following are however also eligible:
  - universities
  - museums (both public and private )
  - municipalities
Affiliated entities
- The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
- Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
  - Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  - This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    - Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      - Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
        
        Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
        
        Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        
        Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    - Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate, or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.