Small Value Projects Grant Program in Romania and Moldova

Deadline: 21-Jul-2025

Applications are now open for the Small Value Projects Grant Program.

Priorities

• Out of the 3 priorities of the Programme, only Priority 1 and Priority 3 will be addressed by this call for small scale projects, as follows:
  • Priority 1 Green communities      
    • Policy Objective
      • A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility.
        • SO1.1 Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system-based approaches.
  • Priority 3: Cooperation across borders
    • Policy Objective
      • ISO1: A better cooperation governance
        • SO 3.1 Enhance efficient public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens, civil society actors and institutions, in particular, with a view to resolving legal, capacity and other obstacles in the border region.
      • ISO2: A safer and more secure Europe
        • SO 3.2 Border crossing management and mobility and migration management.

Funding Information

• Indicative allocation 
  • Priority 1: Green communities
    • Allocation per specific objective [EURO}: 4,580,618
  • Priority 3: Cooperation across borders
    • Allocation per specific objective [EURO}
      • SO1: 8,583,904
      • SO2: 1,471,317
• Size of grant per specific objective
  • Priority 1: 200,000- 750,000
  • Priority 3: 
    • SO1: 200,000- 1 000 000
    • SO2: 200,000-250,000

Duration

• The initially planned project duration depends on the complexity of activities envisaged and should be kept within the limits allowed by the Call for proposals, as follows:
  • Minimum duration = 12 months
  • Maximum duration = 18 months

Project Activities

• The project will define one project specific objective:
  • The project consists of activities grouped into a single work package with the aim of achieving project outputs.
  • An activity should be understood as a group of actions leading to the achievement of the deliverables, project outputs and project results. In describing the activities, it is important to describe also the role of the partners involved in that specific activity. Each activity can lead to none, one or several deliverables.
  • A deliverable is the physical evidence of what has been produced through an activity or as the physical evidence/support of the output that was produced through an activity.
  • Outputs are defined based on activities to be carried out and must be reflected in a Programme Output Indicator. Based on the intervention logic of projects and programme, project outputs and activities should contribute to Programme Output and Result Indicators.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be in any of the situations regarding its place of registration listed below:
  • Are legal entities registered and located in Programme area, namely in the Romanian counties of, Botosani, Iași, Vaslui, Galați, or in the Republic of Moldova
  • Are legal entities registered outside the Programme area
  • Are European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) regardless of their place of establishment, provided that the members thereof involve partners from Romania and Moldova.
• Are non-profit making organisations,
• Are directly responsible for the preparation, management and implementation of the project with their Partners, not acting as an intermediary.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The following projects/activities are not eligible under the present Call for proposals:
  • projects having an infrastructure (works) component (this does not include the space setup services where the equipment will be installed if the case may be)
  • project not addressing at least one intervention field and one of the type of actions of the Specific Objective chosen
  • projects/any parts of the submitted projects that have already been approved for financing from other sources, including other EC programmes;
  • projects that have already been completed;
  • projects/activities related to the tobacco industry, production of alcoholic distilled beverages (excluding local and traditional products), arms and munitions;

For more information, visit Interreg NEXT Romania-Republic of Moldova Programme.