Deadline: 28-Feb-23
The INTERREG VI-A Italy–Croatia 2021-2027, a Cross-Border Cooperation Programme in the framework of the European Territorial Cooperation, is launching the 1st Call for Proposals for two typologies of projects, Standard and Small-scale projects.
The Programme area’s greatest potential and core driver of development is represented by the Adriatic Sea: indeed, the strengths deriving from the maritime dimension are numerous, from the strategic position and good performance of ports in the area, to the impressive richness of biodiversity and the strong attractiveness of the region for coastal tourism flows. Thus, it seems essential to exploit these opportunities by focusing the cooperation efforts on blue economy domains, in consistency with the EU Blue Economy strategy. Moreover, synergies and complementarities with other funding instruments at EU, national, regional level including National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRP) will be encouraged. The Programme’s vision of “Focusing on innovation and sustainability in the blue economy, capitalising previous cooperation experiences, creating synergies with EUSAIR” will be attained through the Programme’s five Priorities and their seven Specific Objectives.
Priorities
- Sustainable growth in the blue economy
- Green and resilient shared environment
- Sustainable maritime and multimodal transport
- Culture and tourism for sustainable development
- Integrated governance for stronger cooperation
Objectives
- Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies
- Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship
- Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention, resilience taking into account eco system based approaches
- Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution
- Developing and enhancing sustainable, climate resilient, intelligent and intermodal national, regional and local mobility, including improved access to TEN-T and cross-border mobility
- Enhancing the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation
- Other actions to support better cooperation governance
Funding Information
The Programme will allocate 80.000.000,00 EUR from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to the 1st Call for proposals.
- Standard project
- Min. financial size 500.000,00 EUR
- Max. financial size 1.500.000,00 EUR 2.200.000,00 EUR
- 30 months
- Small-scale project
- Min. financial size 165.000,00 EUR
- Max. financial size 200.000,00 EUR
- 18 months
Geographical Focus
The 1st Call for proposals is addressed to the whole Programme area (marked in blue on the map shown below), covering the following NUTS III regions:
- Italy: Teramo, Pescara, Chieti (Abruzzo Region), Brindisi, Lecce, Foggia, Bari, Barletta-Andria-Trani (Apulia Region), Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini (Emilia-Romagna Region), Pordenone, Udine, Gorizia, Trieste (Friuli Venezia Giulia Region), Pesaro e Urbino, Ancona, Macerata, Ascoli Piceno, Fermo (Marche Region), Campobasso (Molise Region), Venezia, Padova, Rovigo (Veneto Region);
- Croatia: Primorsko-goranska, Ličko-senjska, Zadarska, Šibensko-kninska, Splitsko-dalmatinska, Istarska, Dubrovačko – neretvanska (Adriatic Croatia region), Karlovačka (Pannonian Croatia region).
Eligibility Criteria
Institutions/entities willing to participate in the 1st Call for proposals must fulfil all the following criteria:
- Be established under the national law of Italy or Croatia
- Have their official seat or seat of operations in the Programme area, as long as the seat of operation is active for at least six months before the date of publication of this Call announcement;
- Be endowed with legal personality.
- Standard projects eligible applicants:
- National, regional and local public bodies and their associations
- Non-profit organisations
- Profit-making organisations
- International organisations acting under the national law of an EU Member State
- International organisations acting under the international law
- Small-scale projects eligible applicants:
- Local authorities: only bodies representing a population fewer than 50.000 inhabitants or an association of several of these bodies representing a population fewer than 50.000 inhabitants
- Bodies governed by public law
- Schools and educational institutions with the exclusion of universities
- Non-profit organisations
- Profit-making organisations: only Micro or Smallsized enterprises
- Schools and educational institutions with the exclusion of universities
Deadlines
- Standard projects: 20 March 2023
- Small-scale projects: 28 February 2023
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