EEA Grants Complementary Funding Opportunities

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EEA GrantsComplementary Funding Opportunities

• Norman Weisz
• Senior Environmental Officer
• Financial Mechanism Office

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BREAK-DOWN OF ALLOCATIONS
(country-by-country in millions)

• Poland 558.630
• Hungary 135.057
• Czech Rep. 110.910
• Slovakia 70.329
• Lithuania 67.257
• Latvia 53.760
• Spain 45.840

• Greece 34.260
• Estonia 32.760
• Portugal 31.320
• Slovenia 18.594
• Cyprus 4.662
• Malta 3.621
• TOTAL 1,167.000

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PRIORITIES

• Additions under the Norwegian FM
• Implementation of Schengen
• Regional policy and cross-border activities
• Environment (waste management and acquis)
• Technical assistance for implementation of EU
  acquis

• Both Financial Mechanisms
• Protection of the environment sustainable
  development
• European cultural heritage
• Human resources development
• Health and childcare
• Research

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ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS
The environmental focus areas mentionned in the
MoUs are mainly within the following topics buth
with different profiles in each country.

• Pollution prevention (air and water)
• Waste management
• Energy efficiency and renewable energy
• Biodiversity
• Environmental monitoring and management
• Implementation of environmental aquis capacity
  building

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CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES

• For all applications, there are also a set of
  cross-cutting issues that will be considered as
  part of the appraisal process
• sustainable development
• social
• economic
• environmental
• good governance
• gender equality
• bilateral cooperation

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COMPLEMENTARY TO EU FUNDING

• Some elements that make EEA Grants complementary
  to EU funding
• More funding, same objectives
• Very broad priorities
• Smaller projects expected
• Commitment period in-between
• Pilot projects
• Focus on the NGO sector and civil society
• Country specific assistance
• Donor state related interests and cooperation

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STATE OF PLAY

• All 13 beneficiary states have completed both
  MoUs
• Beneficiary states are preparing to take the
  step from preparatory to implementation stage
• The first steps will be to launch their first
  open calls for proposals, and to set up special
  funds such as
• Seed Money funds,
• NGO funds and
• funds for technical assistance

Signing ceremony of MoU between theEEA-EFTA
states and the Czech Rep
Signing ceremony of MoU between the EEA-EFTA
states and Poland
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CALLS FOR PROPOSALS - STATUS

• The Czech Republic on 18 May this year,
  announcing a total 10.7 million available for
  Individual Projects
• Slovenia on 31 May, with a call worth a total
  14.1 million for Individual Projects with four
  deadlines spread out over the commitment period
• Malta followed in August with a 3 million call
  for the entire commitment period
• Poland on August 31 announcing a total 176
  million for applications across all priority
  sectors
• Most other beneficiary states plan to follow suit
  with open calls during the autumn
• the financial mechanisms are now in the
  operational phase

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APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Applicant
Applicant
Applicant
Application
Beneficiary state
National Focal Point
Prioritisation
FMO
Appraisal screening
Screening by the EC
FMC
NMFA
Decission
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FMO STAFF

• Stine Lundin Andresen Director
• Hjortur Sverrisson Senior Legal Officer
• Kurt Haugen Senior Financial Controller
• Norman Weisz Senior Environment Officer
• Laura Harjapaa Senior Officer
• Erik Brynhildsbakken Information Officer
• Anders Flock Bachmann Legal Officer
• Agusta Yr Thorbergsdottir Officer

• Pawel Krzeczunowicz Country Portfolio Officer
• Matus Minarik Country Portfolio Officer
• David Tas Financial Controller
• Malene Christiansen Secretary
• Karen Turner Temporary Officer
• Michael Reiertsen Legal Trainee
• Geir Åge Andreassen Trainee

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