Interreg NWE - Call 3 for small-scale projects

Research

Funding organisation:

EFRO

What?

Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) is a European Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission with the ambition to make the North-West Europe area a key economic player and an attractive place to work and live, with high levels of innovation, sustainability and cohesion. It invests EUR 370 million of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in activities based on the cooperation of organisations from eight countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Interreg North-West Europe has opened its third call for small-scale projects for the 2021-2027 programming period. This call will close on Thursday 12 July 2023.

The main objective of the call for small-scale projects is to allow project applications with a reduced scope, partnership size, and duration to apply to the NWE Programme.

Through a simpler project application and implementation process, Interreg NWE is interested in improving its accessibility to stakeholders that may be unfamiliar with their Programme or that lack capacity to apply for regular calls. Small-scale projects can also support project ideas that envisage results with shorter timeframes.

Small-scale project applications may be stepping stones or follow-up actions to regular projects. They may be designed as laboratories for future regular projects, or they may complement regular NWE projects and / or reinforce their impact by making their outputs accessible to a wider group of stakeholders or to other regions.

Call 3 for small-scale projects differs from regular calls for proposals in several aspects:
1 project specific objective addressed by 1 work package

Only 1 out of 3 types of project outputs addressed

• Joint strategy (ies) and action plan (s) or
• Pilot action (s) leading to solutions or
• Capacity building and awareness raising outputs

1 step call procedure
Project duration: Maximum 18 months
Budget: 200,000 – 800,000 EUR total eligible costs, 60% co-financing
Partner budgeting: A 40% flat rate will be applied on staff costs as Simplified Cost Option (SCO) (partner budget option 2, Programme Manual)
Preparation costs granted: 6,000€ total eligible costs
Investments: not possible

Who?

As with regular calls, all types of target groups from the quadruple helix are welcome to participate. The Programme specifically encourages the following ones to join small-scale project applications:
- Local, regional and national public authorities
- NGOs and interest groups such as international organisations, trade unions, foundations, charities, voluntary associations, clubs etc.

Application?

1 step call procedure

Project proposals must be submitted in English and only through the Interreg NWE Joint electronic monitoring system (Jems).
Project applications sent via any other means will not be considered.

More information?

More information can be found on the NWE website, or in the Programme Manual.

Deadline

12.07.2023

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail annelies.stockmans@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211268070