Deadline: 21-Nov-22
Danube Transnational Programme has launched the first call of the Interreg Danube Region Programme 2021-2027.
The programme offers financial support to transnational projects contributing to the development of a more innovative, sustainable and more social Danube Region. The programme has been designed under the territorial cooperation goal of the European Union. The uniqueness of the programme consists of offering a platform for cooperation in strategic areas between EU Member States and non-EU countries in the Danube region.
Objectives and Priorities
DRP supports policy integration in the Danube area through projects addressing key challenges and opportunities of the region in specific fields of action, below the EU-level (not duplicating efforts in policy integration at the EU-level) and above the national level. Transnational projects should influence national, regional and local policies (policy driver).
In order to achieve a higher degree of territorial integration of the very heterogeneous Danube region, the transnational cooperation programme will act as a policy driver aiming to tackle the common challenges and needs deriving from specific policy fields. Therefore, transnational cooperation is expected to deliver tangible results through the development and practical implementation of policy frameworks, tools and services. To this end, the programme seeks to promote concrete pilot investments.
Funding Information
- The programme will allocate for this 1st call for proposals up to EUR 91,753,091.38 of the DRP’s Interreg fund.
- The maximum EU contribution to the projects is a co-financing rate of 80%.
Eligible Funding
The following cost categories are eligible for the 1st call for proposals:
- Staff costs.
- Office and administration.
- Travel and accommodation.
- External expertise and services.
- Equipment.
- Infrastructure and works.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following types of entities, officially registered in the programme area , are eligible to apply:
- Local, regional, national public bodies/ bodies governed by public law (including EGTCs registered in one country of the programme area).
- International organisations.
- Private bodies (non-profit organisations and private enterprises / private profitmaking organisations).
- Each project has to appoint a lead partner (LP) who is responsible for preparation and submission of the application form as lead applicant. In case of approval of the project, the lead partner takes over the full responsibility for management, communication, implementation, and coordination of activities among the involved partners. The lead partner bears legal responsibility for the whole partnership. The lead partner is also the link between the project and the managing authority/joint secretariat (MA/JS) of the programme. The following types of entities can be lead partners:
- Local, regional, national public bodies/ bodies governed by public law (including EGTCs in the meaning of Article 2(16) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013).
- International organisations.
- Private non-profit bodies.
- The programme covers 14 countries, 9 of them EU Member States (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Germany: Baden Württemberg and Bavaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) and 5 non-member states (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine with four provinces: Chernivetska Oblast, Ivano-Frankiviska Oblast, Zakarpatska Oblast, Odessa Oblast ). As a general rule, EU financing is only provided to project partners located in the programme area.
For more information, visit https://www.interreg-danube.eu/news-and-events/programme-news-and-events/7797