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Interreg V B Adriatic-Ionian ADRION First call for proposals main features ADRION Info Day Bologna, 12 February 2016

ADRION Programme • 4 EU Member States: ERDF Croatia, Greece, Italy Partner (part of the country), States Slovenia; • 3 candidate countries: Albania, IPA Montenegro, Serbia; Partner • 1 potential candidate States country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

ADRION first call for proposals – Overall objective …to act as a policy driver and governance innovator fostering European integration among Partner States, taking advantage from the rich natural, cultural and human resources surrounding the Adriatic and Ionian seas and enhancing economic, social and territorial cohesion in the Programme area .

ADRION first call for proposals – Priorities and Specific Objectives 2. Sustainable Region 3. Connected 1. Innovative Region and Smart 2.1 Promote the Region sustainable valorisation 3.1 Enhance of natural and cultural capacity for 1.1Support the assets as growth assets integrated development transport and of a regional 2.2 Enhance the mobility Innovation capacity in services and system for the transnationally tacking multimodality Adriatic-Ionian environmental system area vulnerability, including fragmentation and the multimodal safeguarding of links ecosystem services

ADRION first call for proposals – Financial allocation Budget allocation 1 st call for proposals: 40% programme budget of Priority Axes 1-3 Total budget ERDF IPA II Total (incl. Nat. cofin 15%) EUR EUR EUR EUR 6.677.418,80 1.199.244,40 7.876.663,20 9.266.662,59 Priority Axis 1 15.358.062,00 2.830.888,40 18.188.950,40 21.398.765,18 Priority Axis 2 6.009.676,40 1.073.733,20 7.083.409,60 8.333.423,06 Priority Axis 3 28.045.157,20 5.103.866,00 33.149.023,20 38.998.850,82 TOTAL Ranking list of assessed project proposals per Priority Axis!

ADRION first call for proposals – Main features P ROJECT FINANCIAL From EUR 800.000 to 1.500.000 ERDF+IPA II contribution (total budget: from EUR 941.176 to 1.764.706) SIZE In exceptional cases an increase or decrease of the amounts above of  5% can be accepted Up to 85% for all partners EU CO - FINANCING Up to 24 months P ROJECT D URATION 1-step call W AY OF Electronically submitted SUBMISSION D EADLINE FOR 25 March 2016, h: 17:00 (CET time) SUBMISSION

ADRION first call for proposals – Ways of involvement Financing partners: A re the ” bones” of the project proposals; Financially contribute to the project ; Located in the programme area. Associated Partners: Do not financially contribute to the project; Related expenditure is borne by the financing partners (limited to travel and accommodation); Do not act as service providers; Must demonstrate being involved for the benefit of the project; Can also be located outside the Programme area; Do not count for the fulfilment of the eligible partnership. Non-EU Partners located outside the Programme area: Have to be public institutions; Contribute with their own funds or with the financial support of other sources of funding (e.g.: ENI, IPA II, United Nation); Do not count for the fulfilment of the eligible partnership.

ADRION first call for proposals – Eligible partnership Partnership composed by: • Financing partners from at least 3 Partner States , out of which • At least one financing partner must be from an ERDF Partner State. • Larger partnership possible: up to 10 financing partners ; • Even larger partnership also possible if duly justified.

ADRION first call for proposals – Eligible financing partners National, regional and local public bodies (including EGTCs) • Be liable to the national law of the Partner States participating to the Programme; Bodies governed by public law ( Article 2(4) of Directive • Have their official seat and their seat of 2014/24/EU) ) operations in the country/part of the country included in the Programme area; Private bodies (operational from • Be endowed with legal personality. at least 2 years) International organisations acting under the national law of an ADRION Partner State (operational from at least 2 years)

ADRION first call for proposals – Exception: Assimilated partners Assimilated partners: • Italian public authorities/bodies governed by public law competent in their scope of action for certain parts of the eligible area but are located outside of it (e.g. ministries located in Rome); • Have equal rights and obligations to applicants located in the programme area; • Attribution of the status of assimilated partner shall be duly justified and further assessed with the support with the Italian National Authority/National Contact Point .

ADRION first call for proposals – Lead Applicant Lead Applicant must be located in an ADRION ERDF Partner State. The following institutions can be Lead Applicant: • Public bodies (national, regional or local level; also “assimilated”); • Bodies governed by public law (also “assimilated”); • International organizations acting under national law.

ADRION first call for proposals – Private bodies • Can be profit or non-profit ; • They must be operational from at least 2 years ; • They must respect specific financial requirements in order to ensure their financial viability; • In case of project proposal, they must provide a financial guarantee for an amount corresponding to their respective share of EU contribution; • Financial guarantee is one of the pre-conditions for signing the Subsidy Contract by the Managing Authority.

ADRION first call for proposals – Application package • Call announcement; • Cooperation Programme; • Off-line Application Form; • Declarations of Lead Applicant and Project Partners (1 document per partner); • Declaration of Associated Partner(s) (1 document per associated partner); • Declaration on financial viability (for private partner(s) only); In addition you have to provide: • Documents attesting that the legal representatives/delegated persons hold the power of signature or representation ; • a copy of his/her valid identity document (e.g. identity card, passport).

ADRION first call for proposals – Submission of the project proposals • Electronically submitted via e-MS; • Registration access required; • Application submitted by the Lead Applicant ; • Paper documentation required in case of project approval only.

ADRION first call for proposals – Selection process Administrative & Eligibility checks If the proposal does not pass one of the Strategic assessment steps, it does not progress the appraisal or the affected partner Awarding score is excluded from the (contribution to EUSAIR) partnership. Operational assessment Financial capacity check of private partners State Aid & Anti-fraud checks Monitoring Committee decision

ADRION first call for proposals – Project structure

ADRION first call for proposals – Programme intervention logic All 2014-2020 programmes are based on a result oriented approach : • Result orientation of the programme; • Programme monitoring through indicators; • Definition of a performance framework: targets to be reached within 2018; • Evaluation and reporting.

ADRION first call for proposals – Programme intervention logic

ADRION first call for proposals – Projects contributions to Programme Programme Priority Axis Project Project Programme Priority Programme result Project overall /Specific Objective indicator results objective Project Project Actions to be Programme specific main supported output indicator objective outputs Projects feeds Programme outputs and results

ADRION first call for proposals – Projects contributions to Programme Example: Programme Priority Axis Project Increase capacity Support of key innovation Project Project development regional actors to be overall results involved in trans. innovation system for objective actions the area No. enterprises cooperating Indicative actions Project Project No. coop. listed in the specific main networks & objective Cooperation outputs clusters Programme …

ADRION first call for proposals – Project intervention logic

ADRION first call for proposals – Project structure Project proposal structured in Work Packages (WP) Preparation Management Compulsory WPs Communication Implementation

ADRION first call for proposals – Project structure Project proposal structured in Work Packages (WP) • Related to preparatory activities; • Eligible expenditure from 1 January 2014 to the day before the submission of the Preparation project proposal; • Lump sum: max EUR 11.800; • Reimbursed only if the project proposal is approved; Subsidy Contract & Partnership Agreement signed.

ADRION first call for proposals – Projects structure Project proposal structured in Work Packages (WP) • Project coordination and implementation; • Financial management; Management • Internal communication; • Project closure.

ADRION first call for proposals – Project structure Project proposal structured in Work Packages (WP) • Strategic communication planning; • Reference to target groups; Communication • Specific and measurable communication objectives (i.e.: proposing of “raising awareness” or to “spread results” without providing to whom and how is not enough).