Deadline: 18-Aug-21
The Norway Grants is seeking a call for project proposals for Cultural Entrepreneurship, Heritage and Cooperation Programme to focus on the role that culture and movable cultural heritage play as an engine for local and regional development by putting an accent on employment, social inclusion, and entrepreneurship in the cultural sector.
Objectives
- The general objective of the Programme is to strengthen social and economic development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management. To achieve this, the Programme will promote cultural entrepreneurship initiatives, the ultimate goal of which is to reduce economic and social disparities in the European Economic Area and to strengthen the relations between the Donor States – Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein – and the Republic of Bulgaria.
- In order to enhance the exchange and cooperation between organizations from the Donor States and Bulgaria, the Programme Operator – the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture – partners with Arts Council – Norway for the implementation of the Programme.
- The specific goal of Outcome 1 is to enhance cultural heritage management by supporting projects aimed at presenting cultural heritage in revitalized, restored and renovated spaces (Output 1.1) and by making cultural heritage objects digitally accessible (Output 1.2). Therefore, through this call the PO will select and support project proposals that best contribute to achieving Output 1.2 and are focused on one or more of the following thematic areas:
- Enhanced management and presentation of cultural heritage, incl. through revitalization, restoration and renovation of spaces;
- Promotion of cultural entrepreneurship.
Funding Information
- Total budget of the Call: €5,400,000
- The maximum grant applied for should be €400,000
- The minimum grant applied for should be €150,000
- The maximum grant rate is 100% of the total eligible expenditure of a project.
- The Project Promoter has the right to an advance payment of up to 30% of the agreed project budget.
- The total value of the advance and the interim payments shall not exceed 80% of the project’s budget as laid down in the project contract. The Programme Operator retains 20% of the agreed budget until the approval of the Project Promoter’s final report.
- Up to 24 months, but not longer than 30 April 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are non-commercial public entities, established as legal persons on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and whose principal activity is in the cultural and creative sectors including municipalities and regional administrations.
- Natural persons are not eligible project promoters.
- The applicant should have the administrative, financial and operational capacity to implement the project.
- Each applicant may submit only one project proposal under this call. In case an applicant has submitted more than one project proposal, only the last project proposal submitted within the deadline will be admitted for evaluation. All previous project proposals will be considered withdrawn.
- Eligible Partners
- Eligible partners under this call are any non-commercial, public or private, entity and non-governmental organizations, established as a legal person in Bulgaria or in the Donor States (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).
- Natural persons are not eligible project partners.
- Under this call, the partnership is desirable but not obligatory. The PO will encourage projects which are based on partnerships between the applicants and partners from the Donor States.
- Projects which envisage the implementation of activities together with partners from the Donor States will receive additional points during the assessment of the project proposals.
- There is no limit to the number of project partners and one partner can participate in more than one project proposal.
Mandatory Requirements
The projects under this call must correspond to the following mandatory requirements of eligibility:
- The activities provided for in the project proposals can be implemented on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and in the case of a partnership – on the territory of the partner(s) from the Donor States.
- Each project proposal must provide for the creation of at least 2 new jobs.
- Each project proposal must include an activity for revitalization of spaces of/in cultural heritage institutes.
- Each project proposal must include the activity of organizing a new exhibition.
- The project proposals must provide an activity for training of management and expert personnel of the Project Promoter in the subject area of Output 1.1.
- Each project proposal must include activity for development of an entrepreneurship plan, which should be implemented for a period of 5 years after its creation. The plan can be updated if necessary.
- Each project proposal must include an activity for the formation of a project management team, and each Project Promoter is directly responsible for the management of the project and for achieving quality implementation of the proposed activities
- Each project proposals must include an activity for publicity and information on the objectives and the activities of the project as well as on the financial contribution of the EEA Grants, including the development of a bilingual (in Bulgarian and in English) web-page for the relevant project. The activity shall correspond to the criteria described in the Communication and Design Manual of the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021 and to the ones set by the Regulation on the Implementation of the EEA FM 2014-2021.
- Each project proposal must include a risk analysis and it should be detailed by the applicant in the Application Form.
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