Cross-Border-Cooperation Program Montenegro-Albania 2014-2020

Deadline: 13-Sep-21

The European Union (EU) is pleased to announce the Cross-Border-Cooperation Program Montenegro-Albania 2014-2020 under the Instrument of Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA II) to promote/strengthen good neighbourly relations and socioeconomic development of the border regions, through the environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive economic development, with respect for its common cultural and natural heritage.

Objectives 

The following are the specific objectives and the corresponding results that the applications submitted under this call will contribute to attaining:

• The competitiveness of the tourism sector is enhanced by the economic valorisation of the cultural and natural heritage
• The protection of environmental resources in lake and alpine areas is furthered
• Employability and social inclusion is fostered

Thematic Priorities

• Thematic priority 1: Encouraging tourism, culture and natural heritage
• Thematic priority 2: Protecting the environment, promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management
• Thematic priority 3: Promoting employment, labour mobility and social and cultural inclusion across the border

Funding Information

• The competitiveness of the tourism sector is enhanced by the economic valorisation of the cultural and natural heritage EUR 2,365,000.00
• The protection of environmental resources in lake and alpine areas is furthered EUR EUR 1,052,000.00
• Employability and social inclusion is fosterd EUR EUR 1,513,000.00

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant(s)

In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:

• be a legal person, and
• be non-profit-making, and
• be effectively established in3 either Montenegro or Albania, 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 one of the following institutions or organisations:
  • Local authorities,
  • Local governments and their institutions,
  • Tourism and cultural organizations,
  • Associations of municipalities,
  • Development agencies,
  • Local business support organizations,
  • NGOs,
  • Public and private bodies supporting the workforce,
  • Vocational and technical training institutions,
  • Bodies and organization for nature protection,
  • Public bodies responsible for water management,
  • Fire/emergency sen-ices,
  • Schools, colleges, universities and research centres including vocations and technical training institutions.

• The applicant must act with at least one co-applicant as specified hereafter.
• If the applicant is established in Montenegro, at least one co-applicant must be established in Albania, and vice versa.
• The maximum number of co-applicants and affiliated entities that could be involved in the action is 3. This means that an application cannot have more than 4 entities involved in total.
• Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself.
• Co-applicants must sign the mandate grant application form.

• 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(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 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,…etc) as the proposed affiliated entities.

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