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EU EU Funds- awarded grants
mag.Zdenkica Stanec Samobor, CROATIA 2014.
The EU provides financial support and grants for a number of projects and programs in areas such as:
• Education• health• Consumer protection• conservation• providing humanitarian aid
Using the grant is subject to strict rules to ensure the immediate supervision of how to use the funds with a view to their spending in a transparent and accountable manner.
Methods of financing : 1.grants 2.public contracts
The European Commission of the EU provides financing through numerous specific calls for project proposals. These may be within Framework Programmes. Although there are many 7 year programmes that are renewed that provide money for various purposes. These may be structural funds, Youth programmes and Education programmes. There are also occasional one off grants to deal with unforeseen aspects or special projects and themes. Most of these are administered through what are called National Agencies, but some are administered directly through the EU Commission in Brussels.
Users funds: -small bussiness -nongovermental and civil society organization -young people -researchers -farmers
Grants can be obtained from:
• European Regional Development Fund• European Social Fund• Cohesion Fund• European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development• European Fund for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
In the coming year, it is necessary to solve the following priorities:
1.Development professions people for the job
Croatia has to face several challenges: low employment rate, high rate of unemployment among the youth, qualifications do not match the jobs market and regional differences in accessibility options. In an attempt to change the situation, with the support of IPA IV, efforts have been made to launch a program of professional practice which will help young unemployed people to acquire a one-year work experience and practical skills.
2.Regional disparities
Years of regional disparities remain an issue that worries and plays an important role in developing activities based on the IPA. Some of the reasons for this situation are determined by differences in the social security system, increased mobility of skilled labor, as well as an inability to attract investment. Return of refugees increases the problems caused by the aging population. Government investment and donor support to small, local businesses, agriculture and tourism, but many people still have no access to transport and other services.
3.Better education for more people
Should provide the skills that will be needed in the labor market to young people looking for work permit to have all the qualifications needed to find a good deal. In Croatia, with the help of funding approved in part IV of the IPA, the activities to improve the quality and efficiency of the education system, including ways of establishing comprehensive national standards and to harmonize education with the needs of the labor market.
4.Promoting social inclusion of disadvantaged groups
The share of the population threatened by poverty and social exclusion in the 2011th year increased to 32.7%, which is significantly higher than the EU average (24.2%). Persons who are facing social exclusion of persons with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities (especially Roma and Serbs), women, poor educated people, unemployed young people and those who are long term unemployed and people from less developed regions. Particularly vulnerable are the elderly and children. IPA IV supports the implementation of activities to promote the social inclusion of long-term unemployed, social assistance beneficiaries, including vulnerable groups in the education system and the labor market, increasing the employability of disadvantaged and accelerates the process of deinstitutionalization
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5.Strengthening the role of civil society and the promotion of social dialogue
Civil society organizations in different regions is developed to a very different degree due to the unbalanced regional development and the limited capacity of NGOs. Social partners often lack the experience and technical capacity. Activities supported by the IPA have contributed to strengthening the role of civil society and the promotion of social dialogue in line with the importance attached to these issues in the context of the Croatian accession.
What every EU project should have to get a grant
1.Prerequisites and maturity for implementation
The basic prerequisite in any competition for grants is the eligibility of an applicant, a partner (if any) and project ideas in relation to the sectors or themes, or activities. It is usually defined by the types of legal persons who may apply for a grant. In addition to the eligibility criteria, the applicant must demonstrate the financial and operational capacity to implement the project.
2.Relevance
Relevance of project ideas in relation to the objective of the contest is extremely important element of that proposal has to meet in the assessment of project ideas, often just for relevance can achieve the highest score
3.Quality solutions to the problems of the target groups or areas
Projects must propose some form of added value for the target group of the project and its direct beneficiaries. Given that the tenders seeking delivery of project ideas aimed at solving specific problems of certain groups of people or organizations, an important element in deciding which projects will be funded and skrojenost project specifically for the needs of the target groups that the project addresses.
4.Partnership and support from other organizations
Except that the partnership sends a message to a number of organizations attended and gave support one project idea, it allows for the dissemination and wider overall impact of the project. The partnership is mandatory in most of the competition, but it's still a criterion that is significantly pronounced in EU than is the case with the IPA.
5.Methodology
Each project must have a methodology to elucidate his approach and work, and must be described and justified in the consistency of the actions and results with respect to the goals they want to achieve and demonstrate a systematic approach to selected problem.Proposed activities must be formulated in a way to achieve the goal of the project, but must be sufficient, or should be neither too much nor too little activity.
6.The risk analysis, prevention measures and corrections
In the application stage often happens that the project idea imagines in ideal conditions, but every serious project must have analyzed the risks and assumptions. Identification of the risks associated with the proposed activity is important because it proves a systematic, thoughtful approach to applicants in defining the vision and the circumstances in which the project would be spent
7.The sustainability of the project results
Sustainability of project ideas is an important element of the project proposal owing to structural problems at the level of policy can not solve the one-time action but a systematic approach to the problem with a series of small steps. This is evident in the overall objective, which should be defined in the project proposal and that is not something that the applicant can independently solve, but to contribute to its resolution
8.Elaborated budget and the expenditure
Each project must have its own budget. Under the budget consider the list of expenses, although there are significant differences in how detailed specification of the costs should be on the individual competitions. Sometimes they seek only the general budgets for group activities or a percentage of the total costs, and sometimes required specifications of each, and the lowest cost.
Conclusion
To project passed the competition, primarily must meet the requirements concerning the eligibility of an applicant, a partner and the proposed activities, and it is important to thoroughly read the tender. Then it is important to meet the criteria that are common in most of the competition, of which perhaps the most important relevance. It is important to choose quality solutions and find partners who participate in the project give some legitimacy to the idea of the project.
See links:http://ec.europa.eu/contracts_grants/index_en.htmhttp://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org/Articles/lreg-2007-2/http://www.slideshare.net/badrmou/structural-funds-after-2013https://www.google.com/#q=european+disability+forum
Thank you for your attention
http://www.delhrv.ec.europa.eu/?lang=en&content=2137
