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The European Commission is excited to announce its Turkey Climate Change Grant Programme.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is to improve the local climate change adaptation and mitigation capacity.

• The specific objective of this call for proposals is to improve and increase climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions planning and implementation at local level.

Focus Areas

• A project must focus on at least one of these areas:

  • In line with the priorities of the existing national adaptation1 and mitigation2 action plans between 2024-2030,

  • Promoting resilient and low-carbon cities and sectors,

  • Implementing adaptation and/or mitigation actions in line with existing local or national climate strategies.

Themes

• Sectors for Adaptation to Climate Change: Urban (planning, infrastructure), climate related disaster risk management, transport, water resources management, agriculture and fisheries/livestock, and food security, ecosystem services, biodiversity and forestry, tourism, cultural heritage, energy, industry and other relevant sectors.

• Sectors for Climate Change Mitigation: Energy, industry, agriculture, transport, waste, buildings, Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and other relevant sectors.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 14,706,000.

• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

  • Minimum amount: EUR 250,000

  • Maximum amount: EUR 750,000

Eligible Actions

• The following actions listed are by way of example only and applications are not limited to these types of actions:

  • Implementation of climate change adaptation and/or mitigation actions, 

  • Implementation of climate change adaptation and/or mitigation actions included in the action plans on national and local climate change,

  • Piloting demonstrative actions in the field of climate change adaptation and/or mitigation, 

  • Implementing actions to reduce vulnerabilities and supply the necessary infrastructure for management of disasters caused by climate change,

  • Implementing actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 

  • Implementing actions to make cities more resilient to the effects of climate change, 

  • Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and/or mitigation into local and sectoral actions, 

  • Dissemination of best adaptation and/or mitigation practices in collaboration with organizations and cities within Türkiye and/or the EU,

  • Developing and/or implementing technology and innovative tools for climate change adaptation and/or mitigation action, 

  • Promoting community-based actions in adaptation and/or mitigation to climate change, 

  • Implementation of R&D and scientific studies for climate change adaptation and/or mitigation action in relevant sectors,

Ineligible Actions

• Preparing an LCCAP and SECAP,

• Actions concerned solely with construction of solar or wind powered plants, 

• Actions concerned solely with building of bicycle paths, 

• Actions focusing solely on awareness raising and/or extending the knowledge base within the society, 

• Actions concerned only or mainly with individual sponsorships for participation in workshops, seminars, conferences and congresses, 

• Actions concerned only or mainly with individual scholarships for studies or training courses, 

• One-off actions such as conferences, round tables, seminars or similar events. These actions can only be funded if they form part of a wider project. For this purpose, preparatory activities for a conference and the publication of proceedings do not in themselves constitute such a wider project. Actions for which the applicant is already receiving funding e.g. from the governmental budget, other community programmes or other funds,

• Actions started before the signing of the contract with the contracting authority, 

• Actions consisting solely of studies, feasibility studies (unless part of a broader project), 

• Commercial activities, 

• Actions supporting political parties,

• Financial support activities (i.e. the use of the grant to make further grants (financial or in-kind) or loans to other organisations or individuals such as for those who are establishing their businesses), 

• Actions supporting establishment or activities of private or public enterprises, and profit-earning activities, Social service actions such as provision of food, clothing, health and education fees.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Affiliated Entities:

  • The following are not considered entities affiliated to an applicant: 

    • Entities that have entered into a (procurement) contract or subcontract with an applicant, act as concessionaires or delegates for public services for an applicant

    • Entities that receive financial support from the applicant

    • Entities that cooperate on a regular basis with an applicant on the basis of a memorandum of understanding or share some assets,

    • Entities that have signed a consortium agreement under the grant contract 

Eligibility

• There are three sets of eligibility criteria, relating to:

  • Lead Applicant:

    • be a legal person, and

    • be non-profit-making, 

    • be established in a Member State of the EU or Turkey or an eligible country according to the IPA Regulation.

    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s)

    • affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary, 

    • be a municipality, or

    • be a local authority 

    • be a university and research institution/centre, or

    • be a development agency.

  • Co-applicant(s):

    • be an NGO (association and foundation, etc.), or

    • be a non-profit union, cooperative

  • Affiliated Entities:

    • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:

    • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:

      • Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be: - Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control; - 

      • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant; -

      • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).

    • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association,) as the proposed affiliated entities.

Post Date: October 25, 2024