Deadline: 31-Oct-2025
The Office for Cooperation with NGOs is requesting applications to provide support for co-financing the mandatory share of Civil Society Organizations as beneficiaries of EU Projects and Projects contracted within the framework of Foreign Funds.
The organization will co-finance projects contracted with the Contracting Authority responsible for the European Union program or foreign fund as part of tenders and programs that support the development of civil society in the Republic of Croatia if the amount and/or percentage of co-financing by the project holder or partner is clearly highlighted and visible from the contract signed with the Contracting Authority or stated in the Partnership Agreement, which does not have to be part of the official tender documentation within the framework of which the project was contracted, for:
- European Social Fund + (ESF+)
- Swiss-Croatian Cooperation Program – Second Swiss Contribution
- European territorial cooperation (Cross-border programs, Transnational programs and Interregional programs)
- Competition announced by the Embassy of the Republic of France in the Republic of Croatia
- Multi-user IPA
- Union Programmes (Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV), Creative Europe, LIFE Programme, Horizon Europe, Programme, “EU4Health”, Erasmus+)
Funding Information
- The total planned value of the public call is EUR 1,573,000.00, and the amount may be higher, depending on the inflow of funds for this purpose into the State Budget, in accordance with the Act on the Execution of the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia for 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Associations that are registered and operate in the Republic of Croatia, and whose project is implemented in whole or in part in the Republic of Croatia;
- Foundations, artistic organizations, private non-profit institutions and cooperatives entered in the Register of Non-profit Organizations, which are registered and operate in the Republic of Croatia, and whose project is implemented in whole or in part in the Republic of Croatia.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following are not eligible to apply for the call:
- associations that have not harmonized their statutes with the provisions of the Associations Act;
- branches, subsidiaries and similar organizational forms of associations that are not registered in accordance with the Law on Associations as Legal Entities;
- civil society organizations that are not registered in the Register of Non-Profit Organizations and/or do not conduct transparent financial operations in accordance with the Act on Financial Operations and Accounting of Non-Profit Organizations;
- civil society organizations that spent previously allocated funds from public sources;
- civil society organizations that are in bankruptcy.
Application Requirements
- The following scanned documents must be attached to the application:
- Contract (and Annex to the Contract) signed with the Contracting Authority with all annexes or confirmation of the official publication of the tender results by the Contracting Authority in the format of a printout of the website (in cases where the prerequisite for the start of the implementation of the activity is the official publication of the tender results by the Contracting Authority, and not the signing of the contract),
- Partnership agreement (if the project is implemented in partnership) showing the co-financing shares of the project holder and all partners in the project (unless this is clear from the contract signed with the Contracting Authority), which does not have to be part of the official tender documentation within which the project was contracted,
- Project description form (if not part of the contract signed with the Contracting Authority),
- Project budget form (if not part of the contract signed with the Contracting Authority),
- Completed and signed Declaration of Non-Existence of Double Financing form for the reported project,
- Evidence of financial resources obtained from another source of financing for the project applying for co-financing (if financial resources have been obtained).
For more information, visit Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
