Deadline: 1 July 2018
Applications are open for “EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Regional Cooperation” to support entities across Europe pooling their efforts to find new ways of dealing with common concerns.
Project partners may cooperate in one of two ways:
- Regional cross-border cooperation between eligible countries (focusing on broader regional challenges)
- Transnational cooperation between eligible countries (focusing on common European challenges)
Priority Sectors & their Focus Areas
- Innovation, Research, Education and Competitiveness
- Focus areas:
- Business Development, Innovation and SMEs
- Research
- Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship
- Work-life Balance
- Social Dialogue – Decent Work
- Focus areas:
- Social Inclusion, Youth Employment and Poverty Reduction
- Focus areas:
- European Public Health Challenges
- Roma Inclusion and Empowerment
- Children and Youth at Risk
- Youth Participation in the Labour Market
- Local Development and Poverty Reduction
- Focus areas:
- Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Low Carbon Economy
- Focus areas:
- Environment and Ecosystems
- Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
- Focus areas:
- Culture, Civil Society, Good Governance and Fundamental Rights
- Focus areas:
- Cultural Entrepreneurship, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Cooperation
- Civil Society
- Good Governance, Accountable Institutions, Transparency
- Human Rights – National Implementation
- Focus areas:
- Justice and Home Affairs
- Focus areas:
- Asylum and Migration
- Correctional Services and Pre-trial Detention
- International Police Cooperation and Combating Crime
- Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Judicial System, Strengthening Rule of Law
- Domestic and Gender-based Violence
- Disaster Prevention and Preparedness
- Focus areas:
Funding Information
The available budget under this call is EUR 15 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible lead partner: any eligible entity established in an EEA and Norway Grants Beneficiary State;
- Eligible beneficiary partner: any eligible entity established in an EEA and Norway Grants Beneficiary State and the following countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine;
- Expertise partners can be any eligible entity established in a Donor State, in a non-eligible EU Member State or international organisations.
- Eligible project partners may be entities, public or private, commercial or non-commercial and nongovernmental organisations and academia established as legal persons, including but not limited to:
- Municipalities, organisations owned or partly owned by municipalities, associations of municipalities;
- Regions, organisations owned or partly owned by regions; associations of regions;
- Organisational units of central government, organisations partly funded by central government units, state enterprises, state organisations;
- Civil society organisations, non-profit organisations, social enterprises, interest associations of legal persons, foundations and endowment funds;
- Companies;
- Cooperatives (manufacturing, housing, consumer);
- Social partners (trade unions, sector associations, employer associations, chambers of commerce and industry).
How to Apply
The concept note shall be submitted electronically via the fund operator’s system given on the website.
Eligible Countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
For more information, please visit EEA and Norway Grants Fund.