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Programme Questions
Project Application Questions
Financial Questions
Project Development Questions
Project Implementation Questions
Website Questions
Publicity - Programme Level
Publicity - Project Level
Programme Questions
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Q- What are the main aims of the Programme?
Q- What are the topics addressed by the Interreg IIIB North Sea Programme?
Q- Who can participate in a project?
Q- Can private partners participate in a project?
Q- What is the role of the lead partner?
Q- How are projects selected?
Project Application Questions
Financial Questions
Q- Where can I get information about funds available for my project idea?
Q- Auto decommitment and spending targets -
Is it true that a project risks losing part of the grant if the annual spending targets as set out in section 7,2 of the application and repeated in the Grant Offer Letter are not met?
Q- Eligibility period - In what period of time are costs eligible?
Q- The Grant Offer Letter (GOL) - What is the legal form of relationship between the approved project and the Secretariat ?
Q- The Grant Offer Letter (GOL) - What do we do if we have not received the Grant Offer Letter (GOL) shortly after we have been notified that the project was approved?
Q- Auditor's statement - What is an auditor's statement and when does it have to be submitted?
Q- Auditor's statement - Who can the appointed project's auditor be?
Q- The Lead Partner Responsibility - What is the role of the Lead Partner within the project?
Q- Evidence of expenditure - Do we have to send bills, time sheets and invoices to the secretariat?
Q- Evidence of expenditure - How do I provide evidence of incurred expenditure?
Q- Staff costs and overhead - Are staff costs eligible?
Q- Ineligible expenditure - Could this expenditure not just be omitted in the reports?
Q- General costs/Overhead costs - How are general costs/overhead costs calculated?
Q- Funding and Norwegian money - Are there any special requirements concerning Norwegian project partners?
Q- Travel and accommodation - Are study tours eligible?
Q- Income - How does income generated in the project affect the ERDF grant ?
Q- External experts / consultants working as project manager - Is it possible to appoint an external expert or a consultant as project manager?
Q- Subcontractors located in- and outside the eligible area - Can project activities be subcontracted to a contractor outside the eligible area ?
Q- Travel and accommodation - Are costs for travel by car eligible?
Q- Irrecoverable VAT - To what extent is irrecoverable VAT eligible?
Q- Currency - What currency is used in financial matters?
Project Development Questions
Q- How can I get involved in a project?
Q- Does my idea fit the Programme?
The new Objective 3 North Sea Programme is placed in the context of the Lisbon and Gothenburg Agendas, with a defined focus on regional development with an impact on transnational areas (i.e. promoting technological innovation in common sectors, SME-R&TD network support, job creation, sustainable use and development of energy, balanced polycentric development and integrated territorial development in order to foster territorial cohesion).
Projects should be more strategic (i.e. be anchored in national policy objectives or linked to other national or European funding programmes), and more concrete. That is, projects for the new programme are no longer encouraged if they are pure networking projects (this will still be promoted under the future interregional co-operation programme), similarly studies and research projects will not be considered unless they serve for the preparation of concrete implementation actions (i.e. feasibility studies). Common action plans, concrete problem solving activities as well as activities creating critical mass and tools for policy influence are encouraged and are at the centre of support.
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Q- What is the Table of Project Ideas?
Q- How do I put my project idea on the Programme Website?
Q- Is it possible for my project to link to another Interreg Programme?
Project Implementation Questions
Q- What is a Lead Partner seminar?
Q- Where can I get information on topics already addressed by approved projects?
Q- Where can I find information on projects in my area?
Q- Can I link up to another project?
Website Questions
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Q- Where on the website can I find the application forms?
Q- Who do I contact if something on the site does not work or I have a suggestion about the site?
Q- How do I contact your web designers?
Publicity - Programme Level
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Q- What is the Secretariat's policy/strategy regarding publicity and communication of the North Sea Programme?
Q- How can projects help to achieve the programmes publicity strategy?
Q- Is there a general Interreg North Sea Programme message, which should be used in the publicity materials? Is there anything that should be emphasised?
Q- Is there a programme target group, which projects should also approach?
Q- What kind of support can project expect form the Secretariat on the publicity front?
Q- Where can I find publicity requirements of the North Sea Programme?
Q- What are the key publicity requirements of the North Sea Programme?
Q- Where do I find the relevant EU/Programme logos and flags?
Publicity - Project Level
Q- Why do I need a communication/publicity plan?
Q- What is a communication/publicity plan and what are the key points of a good one?
Q- What is a message?
Q- Why a (common) project message?
Q- How to develop a common message for the whole partnership?
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