6th CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS

 
CONTEXT

Priority Axis	01: A Competitive and Innovative Cross-Border Area
Thematic Objective	03: Enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises
Investment priority	3a: Promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators
Specific Objective	To Improve entrepreneurship SME support systems

   

1. To promote entrepreneurial culture thereby affecting the rates of new businesses formation (i.e. stimulate business creation);
2. To strengthen the factors affecting entrepreneurial success, thereby affecting long-term success of those businesses (i.e. strengthen business stability and development).

   
ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES    
The beneficiaries must be:

1. national bodies having exclusive competences with regard to the objectives of the present call
2. bodies governed by public law , or according to the national legislations, established for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest (needs not having an industrial or commercial character) and which fulfill at least one of the following conditions:
   1. be financed, for the most part, by national, regional or local authorities, or other bodies governed by public law, or
   2. be subject to management supervision by those bodies, or
   3. have an administrative, managerial or supervisory board, where more than half of its members are appointed by the national, regional or local authorities, or by other bodies governed by public law;
3. private organizations: i.e. non-profit organizations, NGOs, etc., founded according to private law, are eligible under the following conditions:
   1. are not established with the goal to obtain profit ;
   2. they do not distribute profits to the stakeholders, according to their constitutional framework;
   3. have their headquarters in the eligible cross border area;

 
No companies with commercial or industrial character are eligible for funding.
     
ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES
Project Beneficiaries can implement 2 types of actions:

1. investment in business support infrastructure and systems (infrastructure will not be financed alone, without the provision of services by the supported infrastructure), and/or
2. soft actions, i.e. services to end-recipients (businesses or prospective entrepreneurs).

 
BUDGET  
The minimum budget of a single project proposal is € 250.000,00, while the maximum budget is € 700.000,00.
 

	Budget line upper limits
Staff Costs (Flat Rate basis Calculation)	Maximum 20% of total direct costs of the PB (excluding staff costs and O&A)
Staff Costs (real costs)	Maximum 50% of the PB budget
Office and administration (Flat Rate basis calculation)	Maximum 15% of the respective Staff Costs of the PB
Office and administration (Real Costs basis calculation)	Maximum 4% of the PB budget
Management Costs	Maximum 10% of the total PB budget (excluding Preparation Costs and FLC costs of the Greek PBs).
Preparation Costs	Maximum 3% of the total project budget
Cumulative: Activities outside the programme area, and total budget of all project partners located outside the programme area	Maximum 20% of the total project budget
First level control costs (applicable only for Greek Beneficiaries)	Maximum 2% of the Beneficiary’s budget (excluded from the 10% limit of Management costs)

 
 
All activities implemented outside the Programme area should be described in a single dedicated WP in the Application Form.
 

Beneficiaries and activities outside the Programme area		Location of Activities
		Inside the Programme Area	Outside the Programme Area
Location of Beneficiaries	Inside the Programme area and National bodies outside the Programme area with exclusive competences	No limit	Maximum 20% of the total project budget
	Outside the Programme area (only within Bulgaria and Greece)	Maximum 20% of the total project budget	Maximum 20% of the total project budget

 
PROJECT DURATION  
APPLICATION

• For Phase 1

ATTENTION: The envelope/package with the Phase 1 documents must bear the following indications in English:
   
RESULTS OF THE 1st PHASE (20.7.2020)
The evaluation results of the project proposals submitted under the 1st Phase of the 6th Call of the CP INTERREG V-A "Greece- Bulgaria 2014-2020" have been announced.
Out of the 49 submitted project proposals, 10 were rejected as ineligible to proceed to phase 2 of the application procedure and 39 were approved for the next phase.
List of Approved Projects   |   List of Rejected Projects
If an applicant wishes to file a complaint against the above mentioned decision of the Monitoring Committee, please refer to chapter 2.2 Submission and Management of the Complaints of the Programme and Project Implementation Manual in force.
 

• For Phase 2 (via MIS platform)

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