Deadline: 13-Apr-21
The European Union (EU) is seeking applications for its Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Kosovo – The Republic of North Macedonia under IPA II 2017-2018. The IPA II programme supports cross-border cooperation to promote good neighbourly relations and socio-economic development as well as fostering the European Union accession.
The Programme provides the socio-economic situation of the border region, sets out a common strategy for remedying problems identified and formulates joint thematic priorities for development.
The overall objective of this call for proposals is to foster co-operation among institutions and organization in the cross-border region in order to support sustainable economic growth and strengthen social cohesion, including gender equality.
Priority Issues
- Thematic Priority 2: Encouraging tourism and cultural and natural heritage and
- Thematic Priority 3: Protecting the environment, promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 2,040,000.00.
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 300,000.00
- maximum amount: EUR 700,000.00
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
- Minimum percentage: 60% of the total eligible costs of the action
- Maximum percentage: 85% of the total eligible costs of the action
Eligibility Criteria
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Lead applicant:
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person
- be non-profit-making
- be effectively established in either Kosovo or the Republic of North Macedonia
- 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
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be a specific type of institution or organisation such as:
- Local authorities (municipalities);
- National and regional centres for disaster management, national parks and monitoring and other public organisations for nature protection
- Formal education and training institutions (e.g. primary schools, VET schools, Universities, etc.) including research, development and innovation centres. In absence of statues of legal person the formal education and training institutions can apply through their respective local authority/municipality
- Central and local cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, institutions for protection of cultural heritage, etc.
- Public enterprises as well as emergency services, such as fire/emergency services.
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Co-applicant(s):
- The applicant must act with at least one co-applicant as specified hereafter.
- If the lead applicant is established in Kosovo, at least one co-applicant must be established in North Macedonia, and vice versa.
- The maximum number of co-applicants that could be involved in the action is three (3).
- 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.
- In genuine cross-border operations, the applicant and co-applicant(s) shall cooperate in the development and implementation of operation. In addition, they shall cooperate in either the staffing or the financing of operation or both.
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Affiliated entities:
- 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:
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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).
- 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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