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  1. An institution, body, office or agency established by or based on the Treaty on European Union and the Treaties establishing the European Communities.

    All education and training facilities for people of different age groups.

    An intergovernmental organization having legal personality under public international law or a specialized agency established by such an international organization. An international organization, the majority of whose members are Member States or Associated Countries and whose main objective is to promote scientific and technological cooperation in Europe, is an International Organization of European Interest.

    A person with legal rights and obligations. Unlike a legal entity, a natural person does not have a legal act (e.g. association, limited liability company, etc.).

    An NPO is an institution or organization which, by virtue of its legal form, is not profit-oriented or which is required by law not to distribute profits to its shareholders or individual members. An NGO is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that does not represent business interests. Pursues a common purpose for the benefit of society.

    A partnership, corporation, person, or agency that is for-profit and not operated by the government.

    Any government or other public administration, including public advisory bodies, at the national, regional or local level.

    A research institution is a legal entity established as a non-profit organization whose main objective is to conduct research or technological development. A college/university is a legal entity recognized by its national education system as a university or college or secondary school. It may be a public or private institution.

    A microenterprise, a small or medium-sized enterprise (business) as defined in EU Recommendation 2003/361. To qualify as an SME for EU funding, an enterprise must meet certain conditions, including (a) fewer than 250 employees and (b) an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million. These ceilings apply only to the figures for individual companies.

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  1. Governance, partnership: Projects aimed at increasing the application of multilevel and transnational or cross-border governance, designing and testing appropriate governance structures and mechanisms. Also cooperation between public institutions on any theme.

    Innovation capacity and awareness-raising: Actions that increase a person’s or organisation’s capacity for innovation (not innovation as such), and that establish the capacity to diffuse and apply innovation; projects that stimulate innovation in different areas and innovation capacities; strengthening and empowering of innovation networks.

    Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks: Projects working on the improvement of institutional cross-border co-operation and capacities, on renewing and simplifying administrative management through long term cooperation between institutions (e.g. Euregion), on establishing and sharing regional knowledge and intercultural understanding and cohesion. It also deals with cooperations between universities, health care facilities, schools and sports organisations, as well as with management and capacity building.

    Activities focussing on agricultural products, organic farming, horticulture, as well as forest management and wood products; furthermore the development of the food sector, food chains, organic food production, and seafood products and any topics related to animals and fishing.

    Agriculture and fisheries and forestry: Projects focussing on agricultural products (i.e. fruits, meat, olives, etc.), organic farming, horticulture, as well as forest management and wood products. Also the development of the agro-food sector, food chains, organic food production, and seafood products. Any topics related to animals (i.e. health, management) and fishing (i.e. sustainable fishery, aquaculture).

    Soil and air quality: Projects that deal with any topic against soil and air pollution, except water pollution, for example, reduction of soil and air contamination, pollution-management systems, but also prevention and eradication of soil erosion, new ways of improving air quality (also indoors) and soil/air knowledge in general.

    Climate change and biodiversity projects assisting mitigation and adaption to climate change and environmental impacts of climate change. Development of low carbon technologies and strategies, reduction of CO2 emissions from all sectors. Promotion of biodiversity, new instruments to enhance biodiversity and natural protection.

    Soil and air quality projects that deal with any topic against soil and air pollution, except water pollution, for example, reduction of soil and air contamination, pollution-management systems, but also prevention and eradication of soil erosion, new ways of improving air quality (also indoors) and soil/air knowledge in general.

    Water management projects about management and distribution of drinking water, integrated sustainable water management, monitoring systems for water supply and improving drinking water quality; also water treatment (wastewater), in particular, innovative technologies to improve wastewater, treatments in the purification of industrial and domestic wastewater and water reuse policies. Waterways, lakes and rivers: This deals with any topics on waterways, lakes and rivers, from improving water quality, protecting and developing of ecosystems or sustainable wetland management.

    Activities that protect, promote and enhance cultural and natural heritage, increase the attractiveness through preservation and valorisation of common cultural and natural heritage in a sustainable manner, and improve and develop cultural and natural heritage objects, services and products. Cultural heritage management, art and culture, (maritime) heritage routes, access to cultural and natural heritage. Also all topics on cultural services such as festivals, concerts, art workshops.

    Cultural heritage and arts projects that protect, promote and enhance cultural and natural heritage, increase the attractiveness through preservation and valorisation of common cultural and natural heritage in a sustainable manner, and improve and develop cultural and natural heritage objects, services and products. Cultural heritage management, art and culture, (maritime) heritage routes, access to cultural and natural heritage. Also all topics on cultural services such as festivals, concerts, art workshops.

    Tourism projects dealing with the promotion of natural assets, and the protection and development of natural heritage, as well as increasing the touristic attractiveness through the better use of natural, cultural and historical heritage. Also projects about improved tourist services/products, development of ecotourism models, tourism development strategies.

    Sustainable management of natural resources projects focussing on the protection, promotion and valorization, and sustainable management and conservation of natural areas (habitats, geo parks, protected areas, etc.). Also projects focussing on preserving and enhancing cultural and natural heritage and landscape, as well as protecting the marine environment.

    Projects on waste management (innovative services and strategies), ecological waste treatment, treatment techniques/systems; waste disposal and recycling (improvement of recycling, innovative recycling technologies, recovery of organic waste, repair & re-use centres and networks); also prevention of pollution and pollution control (ecological and circular economy, marine littering, etc.).

    Labour market and employment: creating employment opportunities and/or optimising jobs, academic (un)employment and job mobility, workforce attraction and improvement of employment conditions for different groups.

    SME and entrepreneurship: strengthening SME capacities, boosting entrepreneurial activities in different sectors and for different groups, supporting social entrepreneurship, creating business support/advisory systems for start-ups/spin-offs/incubators, improving the competitiveness of SMEs, and promoting new business processes.

    Community integration and common identity projects that build identity, create a more cohesive society, promote positive relations through an increased provision of shared spaces and services.

    Demographic change and immigration is about projects tackling major societal challenges like demographic change in different areas and migration, in particular, aging society (active aging, best agers, silver economy strategies) and related new public services (adaptation of key services and infrastructure), social and spatial segregation, and brain drain. Also all topics on migration (policy tools, strategic planning, integration).

    All projects where ICT has a significant role, including tailor-made ICT solutions in different fields, as well as digital innovation hubs, open data, Internet of Things; ICT access and connecting (remote) areas with digital infrastructure and services; services and applications for citizens (e-health, e-government, e-learning, e-inclusion, etc.); services and applications for companies (e-commerce, networking, digital transformation, etc.).

    This is about the mitigation and management of risks and disasters, and the anticipation and response capacity towards the actors regarding specific risks and management of natural disasters, for example, prevention of flood and drought hazards, forest fire, strong weather conditions, etc.. It is also about risk assessment and safety.

    Education and training projects on expanding educational opportunities, reducing barriers in the field of education, improving higher education and lifelong learning, training and labour mobility, educational networks, higher vocational education, common learning programmes.

    Topics on energy management, energy-saving methods, evaluating energy efficiency measurements, energy rehabilitation/efficiency in buildings / public infrastructure, promotion of energy efficiency, cooperation among experienced energy efficiency firms, institutions and local administrations, co-generation.

    Projects focussing on wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectric, geothermal and other renewable energy, increasing the production of sustainable renewable energy and improving research capacities in biomass. Also projects focussing on storage and management of renewable energy, new technologies, sustainable regional bioenergy policies and financial Instruments for investments on renewable energy.

    Social projects concerning people with disabilities and excluded groups; enhancement of the capacity of children, young people, women and elderly; creation of infrastructure to improve access for disabled people, integration of socially vulnerable people; innovate in the care of victims of gender violence, social inclusion of women, etc.

    This deals with the development of health and social services and improved accessibility and efficiency for different groups (elderly, children, etc.). It is also about new healthcare models and medical diagnosis and treatments (dementia, cancer, diabetes, etc.), hospitals, care management, and rare diseases, as well as improving wellbeing and promoting sports.

    Projects about (organised) crime, efficient and secure borders, such as enhancing the effectiveness of the police in the prevention of drug crimes, the development of safety services, or tackling security and organised crime issues.

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    • Improving transport connections dealing with traffic and/or transport connections, rehabiliation/modernisation, better connectivity, improving accessibility/connections, but also public transport.
    • Multimodal transport and logistics and freight transport focusing on using different means of transport, developing multimodal connections, optimising intermodal transport chains; offering multimodal logistics solutions and providing access to clean, efficient and multimodal transport corridors and hubs; establishing cooperation among logistic centres and developing multimodal mobility strategies.

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    • regional planning and development, such as the implementation of regional development policies/instruments and programmes, sustainable land use management plans, integrated regional action plans, spatial planning, and marine protected area management.
    • rural and peripheral development, referring to remote, sparsely populated areas, rural community development, and rural economics, in particular access to remote areas and policies for rural areas.
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Call key data

Interreg Estonia-Latvia: 3rd call for proposals

Funding Program

Interreg Estonia-Latvia

deadlines

Opening
02.09.2024

Deadline
05.12.2024 14:00

Funding rate

80%

Call budget

€ 19,886,711.00

Link to the call

Link to the submission

Call content

short description

The Interreg VI-A Estonia-Latvia Programme announces the opening of the 3rd Call for Project Applications, which will run from 2 September to 5 December 2024 until 14.00. This call is a unique opportunity for organizations across Estonia and Latvia to collaborate on cross-border initiatives that foster cooperation, business growth, and sustainable development in the region.

Call objectives

The following priorities and specific objectives were developed as part of the program:

  • P1: More cooperating cross-border regions and development of joint services
    • SO 1.1: Enhance efficient public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens, civil society actors and institutions, in particular with a view to resolving legal and other obstacles in border regions
    • SO 1.2: Build up mutual trust, in particular by encouraging people-to-people actions
  • P2: Jointly and smartly growing businesses
    • SO 2.1: Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments
  • P3: Sustainable and resilient programme area
    • SO 3.1: Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity, and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution

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Expected results

The program proposes the following (non-exhaustive list) measures:

P1: More cooperating cross-border regions and development of joint services

  • SO 1.1: Enhance efficient public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens, civil society actors and institutions, in particular with a view to resolving legal and other obstacles in border regions
    • Enhancing the adaption and provision of joint public services through pilot actions that tackle border area obstacles.
    • Encouraging the collection and transformation of regional data into (joint) new services.
    • Encouraging the regional and local municipality level cross-border cooperation actions through cross-border networks, strategies and pilot actions.
    • Pilot actions and implemented solutions for setting up public services.
    • Implementing solutions for development needs other than services.
    • Compiling cross-border strategies and/or actions plans followed by joint implementation actions.
  • SO 1.2: Build up mutual trust, in particular by encouraging people-to-people actions
    • Joint education, training and exchange activities.
    • Experience exchange trips and events for municipal and NGO staff.
    • Improvement of services in border regions, and capacity building for relevant organisations.
    • Skills transfer between communities to promote employment.
    • Activities aiming at conservation, preservation and adaptation or development of cultural traditions, heritage, cultural events, meetings, etc.
    • Joint sports games; training camps, experience exchange of trainers.

P2: Jointly and smartly growing businesses

  • SO 2.1: Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments
    • Clustering, networking, mentoring and practical (joint) training activities for raising the capacity of SMEs to introduce innovation in product development. Implementing the gained knowledge.
    • Joint innovation and development in product/service development/improvement (including studies, existing research-based development process, prototyping).
    • Joint marketing to reach new export markets, including market research, attending trade fairs etc.
    • Development of cross-border cluster cooperation.
    • Joint activities for technology and/or green transfer and introducing innovation in SMEs.
    • Collaboration and experience exchange in science-industry technology transfer and joint R&D, mapping scientific services and equipment available for companies in Latvia and Estonia, promotion of cross-border knowledge and technology transfer activities.
    • Finding and implementing joint digitalization solutions, e.g., taking up new software, data digitation, digital technologies, AI, automation, robotics etc.

P3: Sustainable and resilient programme area

  • SO 3.1: Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity, and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution
    • Actions aimed at safeguarding, maintaining and restoring of ecosystems and protection and preservation of cross-border biodiversity and key species.
    • Data gathering and data-driven biodiversity monitoring, analysing methods of collecting data, designing, adapting methods.
    • Testing in field the best measures for protection and restoration of biotopes in bad status.
    • Restoration and management of species and habitats, including re-introduction of species (for example freshwater pearlmussel), and taking into account implementation of Prioritized Action Framework (PAF).
    • Tackling invasive alien species including promoting common practices between Estonia and Latvia and increased public awareness.
    • Establishment of innovative measures for collecting biomass from semi-natural grasslands, residue of forestry, agriculture (for energy, composting, soil structure improvement, secondary products, etc).
    • Small-scale pilot actions in urban areas for preserving biodiversity.
    • Innovative and best practice measures to increase pollinator and other native animal species richness in urban areas (biodiversity friendly grass management; insect hotels; hedgehog, bat and bird friendly gardens; ponds), raising awareness about nature-friendly urban green areas.
    • Joint actions for tackling the cross-border challenges in the programme area such as pollution in shared water bodies; research on and management cross-border green networks; developing nature objects for recreational purposes and sustainable nature tourism; consideration of biodiversity at different levels of planning; development and implementation of solutions for new infrastructure (animal tunnels, pass ways) to avoid fragmentation of animal populations.
    • development and implementation of nature-friendly approaches to manage the sides of roads and railways; creating new buffer zones and managing landscape elements important for species and habitats.

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Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

Estonia (Eesti), Latvia (Latvija)

eligible entities

Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Mandatory partnership

Yes

Project Partnership

Projects must involve at least one Estonian and one Latvian partner, who are legally registered in Estonia and Latvia and whose activities in the project are for the benefit of the programme area. In case of private enterprises, the owners of the companies in Estonia and Latvia cannot be the same, nor can they be owned by their close relatives and/or family members. Once the project is approved, all project partners must sign partnership agreement.Each project has to appoint a Lead Partner (LP).

To be eligible, projects are requested to fulfil four cooperation criteria:

  • Joint development: The projects have to be developed, written and planned jointly by the partners from both sides of the border.
  • Joint financing: All partners have to contribute to the project financially, which is confirmed by a co-financing statement attached to the application form.
  • Joint implementation: The project has to follow the principles of joint implementation opposed to two parallel actions on either side of the border in order to achieve mutual benefits  from the cooperation. The activities, the outputs and results are jointly realised by the partners.
  • Joint staffing: Project team carrying out the project has to involve members from both Estonia and Latvia. All partners assume the necessary role to coordinate and take part of the responsibility.

other eligibility criteria

The programme area includes the following regions:

  • Estonia: Lõuna-Eesti (South Estonia), Lääne-Eesti (West Estonia).
  • Latvia: Kurzeme, Pierīga, Rīga, Vidzeme.

The minimum grant size is not fixed. Co-financing from the Programme can be up to 80% of the total eligible costs for all types of partners.

The maximum grant size depends on the specific objective:

  • SO 1.1: Enhance efficient public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens, civil society actors and institutions, in particular with a view to resolving legal and other obstacles in border regions: € 300,000.00
  • SO 1.2: Build up mutual trust, in particular by encouraging people-to-people actions: € 70,000.00
  • SO 2.1: Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments: € 500,000.00
  • SO 3.1: Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity, and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution: € 1,000,000.00

The maximum project duration is 36 months. The eligible period of the projects activities and payments ends on 31 December 2028. It is recommended to reserve up to 2 months in the end of the project for compiling reports and all other project activities should be finalised by that time.

Additional information

Topics

Administration & Governance, Institutional Capacity & Cooperation, 
Agriculture & Forestry, Fishery, Food, Soil quality, 
Air Quality, Biodiversity & Environment, Climate & Climate Change, Water quality & management, 
Competitiveness of Enterprises, Employment/Labour Market, SME & entrepreneurship, 
Digitalisation, Digital Society, ICT, 
Disaster Prevention, Resilience, Risk Management, 
Rural & Urban Development/Planning

Relevance for EU Macro-Region

EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)

project duration

36 months

Additional Information

The individual consultation with the JS on the potential project idea is compulsory for the applicant, i.e., representative(s) of the lead applicant’s organisation. The communication between the applicant and the JS qualifies as a compulsory consultation if:

  • The representative(s) of the LP’s organization are present – face to face or virtually.
  • The eligibility and financial capacity of partners, project objective(s) and expected results, content, cross-cooperation principle, eligibility of the planned activities, planned budget and indicators is discussed.

Such consultations are needed for testing the compliance of the idea to the requirements of the Programme.

Application procedure consists of compulsory consultation and submission of application.

The guidance on how to create an account and start an application in Jems is provided at estlat.eu. The detailed instructions on the required information in different parts of application is provided in Jems.

The application form and all necessary documents listed in the technical eligibility criteria in chapter 6.3.1 of the call manual must be submitted electronically in Jems for technical eligibility and loose quality check. The Programme accepts only digital/electronic signature.

The following documents must be submitted together with the application form:

  • Lead partner’s confirmation of the application form.
  • Partners’ (including lead partner) co-financing statements.
  • Declaration by Latvian partners (including lead partner) confirming that
    • the project partner has repaid any EU or national support to be refunded by the deadline.
    • the project partner or his legal representative has not been validly sentenced or penalized.
  • Document from NGOs indicating their co-financing sources (for example, communication with banks, evidence of the income from services, letter of confirmation by the creditors/investors, including private parties and municipalities, etc.)
  • The following documents must be submitted by the 3rd of January 2025: SME’s balance sheet and income statement as of t 31.12.2024

Contact

Interreg Estonia-Latvia Joint Secretariat
info@estlat.eu
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