European Union: Exchanges Between Citizens in Fields of Education, Culture and Sport – Binational Cooperation Haiti – Dominican Republic

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5 years ago

Deadline: 30-Apr-21

The European Union (EU) is pleased to announce the Exchanges Between Citizens in Fields of Education, Culture and Sport – Binational Cooperation Haiti – Dominican Republic.

Objectives

The general objective of this call for proposals is: to strengthen mutual knowledge and binational cooperation by promoting exchanges in the fields of education, culture and sport between state actors, including civil society organizations.

The present call for proposals has the specific objective (s):

To increase mutual knowledge between the actors of the civil society of the two countries.
Improve bilateral collaboration in the fields of education, culture and sport between the populations of the two countries.
Increase exchanges between people in order to reduce incomprehension and stereotypes between the two countries.

Elements of added value

The following elements will be positively evaluated:

Innovative and environmentally friendly proposals, with tangible results and / or which focus their attention on the needs and challenges faced by the beneficiary groups.
Proposals involving several actors (multi-actors), either as networks, or as co-applicants, affiliated entities or partners.
In the field of culture, the proposals whose actions allow synergies with the “Regional Program on Cuba-Caribbean Culture – Transcultura” (DCI-HUM / 2018 / 041-743), which aims to integrate people, cultural groups and associations in the region in income-generating and social inclusion activities through cultural and creative industries.
Proposals with communication and media actions to support the promotion of binational dialogue.
Proposals that strengthen the voice and participation of girls and women in both countries, especially in border communities.
Proposals which include financial assistance to local organizations in the two countries active in promoting the proposed actions, in particular in the border area.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is 1,800,000 EUR. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to allocate the totality of the funds available.

Indicative envelope per lot:

Lot 1- Education: 600,000.00
Lot 2- Culture: 800,000.00
Lot 3- Sports: 400,000.00

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant(s)

To apply for a grant, the lead applicant must:

be a legal person or a natural person and
be non-profit and
be a non-governmental organization, and
be established in the Dominican Republic or the Republic of Haiti
be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant (s) and the affiliated entity (ies), and not act as an intermediary.

Co-applicant(s)

Co-applicants participate in the development and implementation of the action, and the costs they bear are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant.
Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as those which apply to the lead applicant himself.
Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.

Affiliated entity(ies)

The lead applicant and his co-applicant (s) may act with one or more affiliated entities.
Only the following members can be considered as affiliated with the lead applicant and / or the co-applicant (s):
- Only enures which have a structural link with the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
- This structural link mainly encompasses two concepts:
  - control, in accordance with Directive 2013/34 / EU on annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of companies:
    - Entities affiliated with an applicant can therefore be:
      - entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or first-rank subsidiaries) or controlled by an entire entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second-level subsidiaries), and this is valid for the other control levels;
      - entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (Mores companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the requestor;
      - entities controlled, directly or indirectly, at the same level as the applicant (sister companies).
  - membership, i.e. the applicant is legally a deal as, for example, a network, federation or association of which the proposed affiliate is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, a federation, an association, …) that the affiliated entity proposes.

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