Sectoral Innovation Projects

Opening date: August 24, 2020

Requested contribution of ACF funding: 150.000 – 200.000 €

Available indicative budget: 600.000 €

Project maximum funding rate: 100 % of eligible expenditure.

Project duration: 36 months

Deadlines for submission of project proposals: two-step application process

Deadline for submission of Concept notes: October 26, 2020, 12:00:00 (noon, Croatian time)

Anticipated deadline for submission of full project proposals: January 18, 2021, 12:00:00 (noon, Croatian tima), or 1 month after applicants receive invitations to proceed with preparation and submission of full project proposals

Each individual applicant can submit only one project proposal in this call as a lead applicant.

Lead applicant can be a partner in another application.

Each organization can participate in no more than two project proposals in a partner role.

The Call for sectoral innovations is designed to strengthen sustainability of Croatian CSOs active in all five-priority areas of the Programme and in respect to country specific priorities, by supporting sectoral and inter-sector partnerships that respond to common, structural challenges with innovative sectoral solutions.

Though partnership (applicant and minimum 3 partner organizations) based, multi-year, strategically oriented action, call for sectoral Innovation projects will address one or a set of inter-related structural challenges and provide sector-wide solutions that build upon the lessons learned from the past, in an innovative manner that enables long-term improvements that strengthen sustainability of the CSOs.

The expected results of this Call directly contribute to the achievement of the ACF Programme’s Outcome 4 – Enhanced capacity and sustainability of civil society (organisations and sector).

CALL DOCUMENTATION:

• Call for sectoral innovation projects (pdf);
• Guidelines for applicants to the call for sectoral innovation projects (pdf);
• Partner’s statement;
• Annex 1: ACF HR – Disscussion Paper for Stakeholder Consultations,
• Annex 2: ACF HR – Report from The Stakeholder Consultations

Info workshops for potential applicants:

September  04, 2020 – online workshop

September 09, 2020 – online workshop

RESULTS OF THE SECOND STEP OF THE CALL – LIST OF SELECTED PROJECTS (February 22, 2021)

RESULTS OF THE FIRST STEP OF THE CALL – LIST OF SELECTED CONCEPT NOTES (December 18, 2020)