EU Proposals: Climate Change Adaptation Grant Programme

Deadline: 30-Nov-20

The European Union (EU) is welcomes for its Climate Change Adaptation Grant Programme (CCAGP) which is designed to support implementation of climate change adaptation actions at local and regional level in Turkey.

The specific objective of this is to improve resilience of communities and cities, protect natural resources and ecosystems and enhance adaptation capacity of vulnerable economic sectors.

The institutional framework of the Grant Programme includes the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (MoEU) General Directorate of Environmental Management, Department of Climate Change and Adaptation Department (End Recipient) and Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, General Directorate of European Union and Foreign Relations, Department of EU Financial Assistance (Contracting Authority) of the Republic of Turkey.

Priority Areas

The priority(ies) of this call for proposals are:

Priority 1: Development of local climate action plans and strategies and/or preparation of decision-making tools (modelling, impact and vulnerability analysis, etc);
Priority 2: Avoiding and reducing exposure to climate change related risks (water scarcity, droughts, forest fires, floods, extreme weather events, etc);
Priority 3: Enhancing resilience of sectors impacted by climate change;
Priority 4: Enhancing the exchange of adaptation know-how and experience among organizations and cities within Turkey and/or the EU for creation and/or implementation of innovative climate change adaptation technologies and systems.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 6.800.000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
Indicative allocation of funds by lot:
- Lot 1: EUR 2.500.000;
- Lot 2: EUR 4.300.000.
Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- Lot 1:
  - minimum amount: EUR 50.000;
  - maximum amount: EUR 150.000.
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
  - Minimum percentage: 50 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
  - Maximum percentage: 90 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
- Lot 2:
  - minimum amount: EUR 150.000;
  - maximum amount: EUR 450.000.
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
  - Minimum percentage: 50 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
  - Maximum percentage: 90 % of the total eligible costs of the action.

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 the IPA Regulation;
  - 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.
- For Lot 1:
  - be an NGO (association and foundation, etc.);
  - be a municipality;
  - be local authority (regional or provincial directorate, special provincial administration, governorship, etc);
  - be a university or research institution/centre;
  - be a development agency;
  - be a non-profit union, cooperative;
  - be representative organizations of businesses and private sector at local level such as chambers, professional organizations, etc.
- For Lot 2:
  - be a municipality;
  - be local authority (regional or provincial directorate, special provincial administration, governorship, etc.);
  - be a university or research institution/centre.
Co-applicant(s):
- 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 referred, the following are however also eligible:
  - Under Lot 2: NGOs, non-profit unions/cooperatives, business organizations
  - Co-applicants must sign the mandate in Part B Section 4 of the grant application form.
- If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
Affiliated entity(ies):
- 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.
    - 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.
  - The structural link shall as a general rule be neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation.
  - By way of exception, an entity may be considered as affiliated to an applicant even if it has a structural link specifically established for the sole purpose of the implementation of the action in the case of so-called ‘sole applicants’ or ‘sole beneficiaries’.