Albania: Capacity Building for Civil Servants of Public Administration, including Trainings/Internships

Deadline: 14-Oct-21

The European Union (EU) is pleased to launch the Capacity Building for Civil Servants of Public Administration, including Trainings/Internships in EU Members State Administrations and Scholarship Scheme (“Young Cells”) to select an organisation that will support further the Department of Public Administration in the civil service reform through the development and implementation of a scholarship programme dedicated to young civil servants.

Objectives

The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to the development of an effective, efficient and transparent public administration in Albania, able to support the progress in the priority areas linked to the EU accession.

The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is/are:

To improve the professional capacity and expertise of civil servants of category III and category IV of the state administration, independent institutions and local government units in key sectors of the Albanian public administration by providing the confirmed civil servants with the opportunity to undertake practical training and internships in EU Member States schools and public administration. This will further enable them to support the Albanian Government in meeting the obligations and challenges arising from the EU Integration Process and other strategic commitments at national and international level.
To develop sustainable mechanisms aimed at supporting the career development of the skilled young civil servants, enabling them to significantly contribute to the efficiency and innovativeness of the Albanian public administration and to the main reforms. This project calls for a special focus on new civil servants (civil servants of Category III and Category IV of the state administration, independent institutions and local government units that have from 3 to 8 years’ experience in the civil service) from posting upon completion of the program, as well as in their subsequent career, so as to make the best use of the enhanced capability that they represent. Also identified is the encouragement of networking and esprit de corps among alumni.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 700,000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant(s)
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
  - be a legal person, and
  - be a specific type of organisation such as: public or private Universities / advanced Education training institutes, public sector operator (such as Ministries, Public Agencies, Official Councils and Committees involved in the field of Public Administration), Schools of Public Administration of Member States, and
  - be established in a Member State of the European Union and
  - 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 and
  - be experienced in training delivery and internships for different civil servants’ target groups at international level.
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.
- Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
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.