BMU Call for Projects Ideas: Transboundary Climate Action in Europe

Deadline: 19-Jan-21

The Federal Environment Ministry launched its 5th call for project ideas under its European Climate Initiative (EUKI). Non-profit organisations in the European Union are invited to submit their project ideas for transboundary climate action.

EUKI projects provide forward-looking ideas for European climate action. They are categorised into the following eight core areas: climate policy, energy, buildings and municipalities, mobility, agriculture, soils and forestry, awareness, climate-aligned finance and sustainable economy.

These transboundary projects should also help simplify the EU climate policy dialogue. The target groups are governments, municipalities, educational institutions and stakeholders from civil society, science and industry, in particular in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe and the Baltic states.

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Two-stage Selection Procedure

As part of the annual EU-wide selection procedure, organisations are selected that put forward promising ideas for climate action in Europe. The projects are selected in two rounds.

1st Stage | Preparing a project outline

For the first stage in the procedure, informative project outlines should be prepared in English, indicating the issue to be addressed, project goals and planned measures. These must be submitted by the deadline using only the online application tool on the EUKI website.
All project outlines received in full by the deadline will be evaluated. On the basis of the available budget and the selection criteria defined in the information on financing, applicants with promising project outlines will then be asked to develop and submit a full project proposal.

2nd Stage | Preparing a project proposal

Implementers whose project outlines have been selected in the first round will be asked in writing to prepare a full project proposal, which must be submitted within approximately six weeks.
Selected organisations will be offered a two-day project development workshop in Berlin. GIZ will reimburse accommodation and travel costs outside the project budgets applied for.
Incomplete project applications (including but not limited to those in which an English translation of annexes is not provided) can lead to projects being excluded from the further selection procedure.
Applicants whose project proposals are not selected for financing will be notified in writing.

Eligibility Criteria

Prospective project implementers must have their official office in an EU member state or be registered there. Prospective implementers from central, eastern and southern Europe in particular are encouraged to submit project proposals. In individual cases, interested parties from EU accession candidate countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey) may also apply for financing as implementing partners. Bilateral and multilateral consortia are equally welcome to participate; as a rule, however, the number of implementing partners (in addition to the implementer) must not exceed four.
Prospective funding recipients must be legal entities endowed with legal capacity. Individuals are not eligible for financing. In addition, prospective funding recipients must be non-profit organisations or belong to one of the following categories:
- Non-governmental organisations;
- National/regional/local authorities;
- Non-profit enterprises;
- Academic and educational institutions.
Target Countries:
- EUKI supports climate projects in EU Member states, with a regional focus on Central, Eastern and Southern Europe as well as the Baltic states. On a case by case basis, applicants from EU candidate states may participate or measures may be financed in these states.