Deadline: 27-May-22
The European Economic Area (EEA) is inviting proposals for Water Management Program.
The aim of this call for proposals is to implement infrastructure/procurement for water management improvement. The proposals submitted should relate to projects ready for implementation and obligatory to have Approved Environmental Terms for the whole project or an exemption decision or documentation of non-requirement, in accordance with Law 4014/2011 as amended and the relevant circulars of Ministry of Environment and Energy.
Categories
- Water Supply and Sewerage Enterprises, Public Authorities, Regional and Local Authorities, Research and Scientific Institutes as well as Management Bodies of Protected Areas, as follows:
- General Government bodies
- Local Government bodies
- Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Sewerage
- Water Supply-Sewerage Associations
- Other competent authorities
- Research Bodies, Universities, Legal Entities of Public Law, Research and Knowledge dissemination Organizations and Management Bodies of Protected Areas, in case they have concluded a contract with the above bodies for the submission of projects’ proposals, in order to be approved and financed under the Programme.
- The potential Project Promoter is encouraged to cooperate, in the context of the proposal to be submitted, with at least one partner from the Donor States or with domestic partners.
Funding Information
- The amount of €200,000 is set as minimum grant of the submitted projects. The minimum grant does not include the expenditure for bilateral relations.
- The amount of €1,500,000 is set as maximum grant of the submitted projects. The maximum grant does not include the expenditure for bilateral relations.
Eligible Projects
The eligible projects are the following:
- The supply, installation and set in operation of new desalination plants and the replacement, extension, or upgrading of existing desalination plants. The construction of supporting infrastructure for the operation of the above desalination plants as water transport and disposal network, pumping stations, storage tanks, necessary projects for water abstraction and disposal of by-products etc.
- The supply, installation and set in operation of new systems for leakage check (telecontrol/telemanagement) and the extension of related systems to existing water transport and distribution networks.
Eligibility Criteria
- Partners from Greece: Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Sewage, Public Authorities, Regional and Local Authorities, Research and Scientific Institutes as well as Management Bodies of Protected Areas.
- Partners from the Donor States (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) : In accordance with Civil non-profit companies, governed by the rules of civil code as well as private bodies, with its headquarters in a country other than the Donor states, shall not have the right to participate in this call for proposals, as Project Promoters or Partners.
- In the context of bilateral relations development, eligible are:
- Any activities aimed at strengthening the bilateral relations between the Donor states and Greece
- Any actions relating to cooperation with partners from the Donor States for drawing up and submitting a proposal, further to this call for proposals (the eligible amount for this category of action shall not exceed € 2.000,00 per submitted proposal)
- Networking, exchanges, exchange and transfer of knowledge, technology, experiences and best practices between bodies in Greece and bodies in the Donor states or/and international organizations.
For more information, visit https://eeagrants.org/currently-available-funding/gr-environment-call-no-3-water-management-solutions-implemented–desalination-plants
