Background Max. Grant Amount: 2.000.000 EUR
The EU has supported in the past dialogues, economic research and studies and has decided to continue to do so having regard of the important recent socio-economic and political changes that the South Neighbourhood region is facing. In addition to this more traditional focus on economic issues, it is considered important now to open a window to pursue dialogues on political matters as well for the EU to provide support to political and economic research and studies and to deepen the dialogue among relevant stakeholders, with the aim to:
(a) promote a more inclusive growth, and in particular find ways and means to increase employment opportunities for the younger;
(b) advance in the progressive liberalisation in the agriculture and services sectors, the fight against tax evasion and corruption, to favour consumption and poverty reduction;
(c) reinforce regional trade integration political and economic dialogues and cooperation initiatives among the beneficiary countries and the realisation of a Euro-Mediterranean free-trade area;
(d) speed-up the implementation of industrial reforms and promotion of fair competition, that are linked to the negotiations for a free-trade area with the EU;
(e) build consensus on the implementation of macro-economic reforms, and the sequencing of appropriate socio-economic policies, that are related to the advancement of the objectives referred previously.
Size of grants
Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum
amounts:
For Lot 1:
- minimum amount: EUR 750.000
- maximum amount: EUR 1.000.000
For Lot 2:
- minimum amount: EUR 1.750.000
- maximum amount: EUR 2.000.000
In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be legal persons
- be non-profit-making
- be specific types of organisations such as: non-governmental organisations, public sector operators, local authorities and other Non-State
actors, international (inter-governmental) organisations as defined by Article 43 of the Implementing Rules to the EC Financial Regulation
- be established in an eligible country as defined for the European Neighbourhood Instrument: Member State of the European Union,
partner countries benefitting from the European Neighbourhood Instrument (Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Israel,
Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine), a contracting
parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway) , Developing countries and territories, as
included in the list of ODA recipients published by the OECD-DAC, which are not members of the G-20 group, overseas countries and
territories covered by Council Decision 2001/822/EC, in Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro or
Serbia, including Kosovo.
Deadline: 16 June 2014
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