EU Grant available to Modernize Rural Areas in the Republic of Moldova

Deadline: 17 June 2019

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organizations for a program entitled “Modernization of rural areas in the Republic of Moldova” to increase the attractiveness of rural areas through targeted upgrading of social and cultural facilities.

Program Activities

The activities should cover:

• support the implementation of activities under the specific objective, providing support in improving the living conditions in rural areas, including but not limited to upgrading social and cultural facilities, natural sites, by stimulating actors in the local communities to engage in the social economy;
• support final grant beneficiaries such as local service providers, social entrepreneurs, local action groups, farmers and farmer associations and networks, local authorities to implement priority pilot actions in rural areas to stimulate economic regeneration and boost attractiveness of rural areas.

The main expected results are: Improved living conditions in rural areas, enhanced social facilities and services to the population, economic activities diversified.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,000,000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be non-profit-making and
    • be a specific type of organisation such as: Civil Society Organisations, Social Entrepreneurs, SMEs associations, Business Service Organisations (BSOs), Business associations to actions directed to economic regeneration and
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or in the Republic of Moldova and
    • For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. Unless sector-specific eligibility rules provide otherwise, if the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, you will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible to participate) or will be required to leave the project on the basis of Article 12 of the grant agreement’.
    • 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.
  • Co-applicant(s)
    • 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.
    • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself.
  • 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:
          • 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.

How to Apply

• The application procedure consists of two phases:
  • Concept notes
  • Full applications
• The concept note together with the declaration by the lead applicant must be submitted at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2V339zO and download the guidelines.