Deadline: 30 June 2020
The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals to strengthen participatory democracies and the EU integration process in Montenegro by empowering the civil society to actively take part in decision making and by stimulating an enabling legal, institutional and financial environment for civil society and pluralist media.
The specific objective of this call for proposals is: to build the capacity of CSOs, media and media regulators to be professional, credible, effective and accountable independent actors.
Priorities
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
- Support the development of civil society by providing capacity building, training, awareness and information to grassroots organizations, CSO and media organizations.
- Support the development of CSOs by means of networking and mentoring.
- To develop CSOs capacities to participate in policy-making processes and deliver cost-effective services.
- To support CSOs capacities to participate in the granting schemes (sub-granting or public calls for proposals).
- To ensure effective outreach to concerned public bodies in order to improve state and civil society relations and enhance cooperation between civil society and media organizations and the donor community, state institutions and other relevant programmes and stakeholders.
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 250.000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
- Size of grants
- Minimum amount: EUR 250.000
- Maximum amount: EUR 250.000
Duration
The initial starting month of implementation is July 2021. The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 22 months nor exceed 24 months.
Location
Actions must take place in Montenegro.
Eligibility Criteria
Lead applicant(s)
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- Be a legal person;
- Be non-profit-making;
- Be a Civil Society Organization
- Be established in Montenegro or national of member state of the European Union or the countries covered by CIR;
- 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;
- Be free of any political affiliations or memberships.
- For UK applicants: Please be aware that following the entry into force of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement* on 1 February 2020 and in particular Articles 127(6), 137 and 138, the references to natural or legal persons residing or established in a Member State of the European Union and to goods originating from an eligible country, as defined under Regulation (EU) No 236/2014**, are to be understood as including natural or legal persons residing or established in, and to goods originating from, the United Kingdom. Those persons and goods are therefore eligible under this call.
- *Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community.
- ** Regulation (EU) No 236/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 laying down common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union’s instruments for financing external action.
- Have a proven background and a minimum of 3 years of experience in Montenegro within the last 2 years in the field of the application at the submission deadline for concept notes.
Co-applicant(s)
- There must be at least one co-applicant and a maximum of 3. If the applicant is a national of an eligible country either than Montenegro, they must have at least one Montenegrin co-applicant.
- Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
Affiliated entity(ies)
- 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 and/or to co-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 statements, consolidated 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).
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
- 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,…) as the proposed affiliated entities.
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