Deadline: 30-Sep-20
The Ministry of Finance as Programme Operator in cooperation with the Ministry of Health – Programme Partner has announced the Open Call for applications for funding of projects from EEA Grants 2014-2021 in Programme Health with focus of potential– grant applications.
Objectives
- The general objective of the Health Programme in the Czech Republic is to improve prevention and reduce inequalities in health.
- Regarding this Call, the main focus is to improve access to health care for marginalized population groups from socially excluded localities, in particular the Roma population, by implementing tools aimed at strengthening the secondary prevention of specific communicable and non-communicable diseases to ensure their early diagnosis and treatment.
Focus Areas
To be awarded grant support, projects must implement activities in one of the following focus areas:
- Creation of information materials in printed and online form for secondary prevention in population of socially excluded localities, especially the Roma population, focused on selected specific communicable and non-communicable diseases (area no. 1).
- “Provision of scientific documentation as a basis for creation, validation and implementation of medical recommendations concerning selected communicable and non-communicable diseases specific mainly for the citizens of socially excluded localities”. The main purpose of the created medical recommendations will be to educate and increase the level of expertise and skills of general practitioners and other healthcare professionals providing care to patients from socially excluded localities, especially Roma patients (area no.2).
Funding Information
- Minimum grant amount is 5,200,000 CZK (200,000 EUR)
- Maximum grant amount is 21,411,754 CZK (823,529 EUR).
- The exchange rate set by the Programme Operator is CZK 26.00 / EUR.
- The maximum rate of grant support is 100% for all eligible applicants
Expected Outcomes
- The expected outcomes and outputs with specific indicators were defined to measure the influence and impact of the programme. Projects that will receive grant from this and following calls of the programme shall contribute to reaching the specified programme outcomes and outputs.
- Based on the focus of the Call, applicants shall describe in the project application the relevance of the project towards the general objective of the programme and its impact towards:
- Programme outcome no. 2 (Measures for prevention of diseases strengthened)
- Programme output no. 2.2. (Tools for improved prevention/early diagnosis of diseases in marginalized populations including Roma developed/ implemented)
- Programme output no. 2.3. (Training/education in disease detection/ treatment provided)
- Programme output no. 2.4. (Awareness raising activities carried out).
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be a legal entity, established in accordance with the legislation of the Czech Republic and in accordance with the provisions in the first paragraph of this chapter.
- Natural persons and/or non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are not eligible applicants in the Call. NGOs are defined as private legal persons which are among the formalized structures of the civil society and fulfil the characteristics specified in document State Policy with Respect to Non-Governmental Organizations for the Years 2015 – 2020.
- Each applicant may submit one grant application for each of the two focus areas.
- If applicant submits more than 1 application in any of the two focus areas, the programme operator will only accept the first application submitted, based on the date and time of submission in IS CEDR.
Potential applicants are not eligible to participate in the Call if:
- they are in liquidation, bankruptcy, impending bankruptcy or are being subject to insolvency proceedings within the meaning of Act No. 182/2006 Coll. on bankruptcy and settlement (Insolvency Law);
- they are in breach of their obligations relating to the payment of taxes, have arrears of insurance premiums or penalties for public health insurance, social insurance or contributions to the State employment policy ;
- they have liabilities towards state and other public budgets;
- they are subject to a recovery order issued following a previous decision of the European Commission, declaring the aid to be unlawful and incompatible with the common market. The eligibility criteria are assessed during the administrative and eligibility assessment process of the grant applications and must be met by the date of submission of grant application. Applicants declare whether they meet the exclusion criteria stated in previous paragraph as part of the declaration of honour included in grant application.
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