Transcript Latvia-Lithuania

Latvia–Lithuania Cross Border Cooperation
Programme 2007–2013
WORKSHOP
“How to prepare good application?”
I “Project Description”
II “Partnership”
Joint technical Secretariat in Riga
[email protected]
18 January 2010, Klaipėda
19 January 2010, Panevėžys & Saldus
21 January 2010, Līvāni
WORKSHEET I
Project Description
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1. Good Project Title. HOW?
Project title – project business card
Good title – a quick picture for the reader of the key ideas of your project!
Choose words clearly reflecting the focus of your project. The
most important words first, then less important words
 Remove unnecessary for understanding words
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1. Is it a Good Project Title?
 Establishment of Cooperation systems
between sport facilities in Latvia–Lithuania Cross
border region
Extra words:
 Harmonious Cross Border Co-operation in
traffic safety of LV-LT border regions
Two titles in one
project
 Development of infrastructure and services for
entrepreneurship “Innovative Border”
Country
abbreviations
 Improvement of water quality in small
settlements Vriclava (LV) and Sauginiai (LT)
Spelling mistakes
 Continuance of Latvia-Lithuania Cross Border
Cooperation in Protection of Population and
Environment
Illogical
Not easy
understandable
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2. Short Title of the Project
 LVLTMARINE
Improvement of the labor force competitiveness in Latvia–
Lithuania Maritime Sector
 Mid-Baltics Craft
Cross-border network of craft as promoter of attractiveness of
Latvia–Lithuania borderlands
 Museum Access
Development of Accessible and Attractive Museums in Zemgale and
Northen Lithuania
 THESPIRITOFCURONIA
Sport games THESPIRITOFCURONIA of Curonian region in Skuodas
and Liepaja
 RCBR
Reconstruction of the Latvia–Lithuania cross border road
Blankenfelde – Vaineikiai
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3. Priority and Direction
Only one Direction of Support!
3rd Call For Proposals:
I Priority
Direction of Support 1 Facilitating Business, Labour Market and R&T
Development
Direction of Support 2 Improvement of Internal and External Accessibility
of the Border Region
II Priority
Direction of Support 1 Enhancing Joint Management of Public Services
and Natural Resources
Direction of Support 3 Development of Active and Sustainable
Communities (Small Project Facility)
Quality Criteria
Project is relevant to
Programme Objectives
Check supported
activities!!!
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4. Project Duration
Project start date:
 First costs incurred or paid
 Eearliest – the day after the decision of the Joint Monitoring
and Steering Commitee
 Latest – within 1 month after LP signs the Subsidy Contract
Project end date:
 First date + duration = end date
One date for all project!
Start and end date is fixed in the Subsidy Contract
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5. Brief Summary of Project
Gives a first impression about the project!
Published on the Programme website, presented to media
Answer to the questions:
 Who (project partners)
 Where (place of implementation)
 Why (justification of project)
 What (aims of the project)
 How (main activities)
 What (outputs and benefit for the target groups)
and
PERSUADE
DON’T GO TOO
MUCH INTO
DETAILS
BE
SPECIFIC,
CONCISE
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6. Total Project Budget
 Filled in autmatically from
Worksheet V ‘Project Budget’
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7. Problem and Justification
It is your chance to persuade assessors about project
significance!!!
Problem you want to solve, situation to improve?
Problem
Joint / Common?
 Background of project/partnership – has it origin in any
previous project?
Why partnership is needed?
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7. Problem and Justification:
Recommendations
 Justify, not only describe problem/situation
 Avoid general stereotypic statements, use statistics,
researches and other relevant concrete data
 Choose problem that you can solve (instead of big
problem that you can’t or even don’t have competence to
solve
 Justify the need of the target group, not the project
partners’ organisations unless they are project target group
 Answer if the project idea has cross border nature?
Can’t it be solved separately on a national, local scale?
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8. Objectives and Sub-objectives
If you don’t know where to go how would
you know that you have came there?
Possibility to get funding
is not target itself!
 1 overall and at least 2 sub-objectives
Overall – strategic long term vision, non-achievable within
project time, but project contributes to its achievement
Sub-objective – operational aim, achievable within project
PROBLEM
OBJECTIVES
RESULTS
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9. Project Target Groups
 Describe and indicate and describe direct target groups of
the project and quantify the
 Indicate and explain what will be the effect or benefits for
the project target groups from your project activities
Interested parts:
 Target groups
 Project implementers
 Decision makers
 Financial source
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10. Approach and Methodology
1. Describe coherence between:
PROBLEM
OBJECTIVE
ACTIVITIES
RESULTS
2. Justify chosen Work Packages and thematic link
between them
3. Coherence between investments and project
objectives/activities
Quality Criteria
The proposed methodology and approach is
coherent with project rationale
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11. Contribution to Programme
Objectives and Development Plans
 Describe coherence between project and Programme
objectives
 Indicate compliance to regional and/or local
planning/strategic documents
Quality Criteria
Project objectives are included into the local
and/or regional planning documents
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12. Contribution to EU Horizontal
Policies
Does the project contribute to:
 Sustainable development
Equal opportunities
Competition
Partnership
NEWS:
European Union Strategy
for the Baltic Sea Region
Additionality
Quality Criteria
Project is in line and contributes to the relevant EU
and national legislation and policies as well as
facilitate implementation of the Strategy for the Baltic
Sea Region.
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13. Cross Border Impact and
Innovative Approach
 Cross border v.s. national/local implementation
 Benefits for the border area
 Difference from existing solutions
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WORKSHEET II
Partnership
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Partnership
Indicate:
 Involvement of each Partner in preparation of the
application
 Commitment of the involved partners
 Justification of partner who is not from the
Programme territory
 Involved personnel, duration of their
work, monthly remuneration rate
 Justification of not balanced
budget or partnership
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Partnership
Shortcomings of partnership:
 Little knowledge about the partners
 No clear common understanding of the
project targets
 Planned outputs and results not relevant for
all the project partners
 Weak commitment of some partners to the
project
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