EU’s Town Twinning between Turkey and EU-II (Twinning for a Green Future) Grant Scheme (TTGS-II)

Deadline: 3-Jan-22

The European Union (EU) has announced a call for proposals to enhance dialogue between Turkish and EU local authorities and strengthen the capacity of local authorities for the purposes of climate and environment-based actions.

Objectives

• The specific objective of this call for proposals is to create sustainable structures for stimulating exchange between local authorities in Turkey and the EU local authorities in areas relevant to climate and environment.
• All projects should respond to the specific objectives of this call for proposals.

Priorities

The proposed project should fall into at least one of the below mentioned priorities:

• Development of local plans, strategies, roadmaps and/or preparation of decision-making tools (modelling, impact and vulnerability analysis, etc.) with regard to climate change.
• Enhancing the capacity of local authorities and enabling exchange of adaptation know-how and experience among local authorities within Turkey and/or the EU for creation and/or implementation of climate change adaptation technologies and systems.
• Raising public awareness on climate and environment related issues, particularly actions targeting children and youth.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR2.500.000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.

Size of grants:

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• minimum amount: EUR 60.000
• maximum amount: EUR100.000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant(s)
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person, and
    • be non-profit making, and
    • be established in  a Member State of the European Union or Turkey or an eligible country according to the IPA Regulation, and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicants and affiliated entitiy(ies), not acting as an intermediary, and
    • be a local authority in Turkey (municipality, special provincial administration(SPAs), Departments of Investment Monitoring and Coordination (DIMCs)), or
    • be a local authority in the EU Member States or an eligible country according to the IPA Regulation, except Turkey.
• 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.
  • A lead applicant from Turkey must have at least one eligible co-applicant which is local authority from the EU Member States.
  • A lead applicant from the EU Member States must have at least one eligible co-applicant which is a local authority from Turkey.
  • A lead applicant from other eligible countries must have one co-applicant which is local authority from Turkey and one co-applicant which is local authority from the EU Member States.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicants may act with affiliated entity(ies).
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicants:
    • 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, 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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