Is my organisation eligible?

Under INTERREG IVC:

Please note this is a revenue programme.

Projects must involve partners from at least three POWER Regions: Andalucia (Spain), Malopolska (Poland), Noord-Brabant (The Netherlands), South East England (UK), Stockholm (Sweden) and Tallinn (Estonia).

Please note that Italy has already committed all its funding on the first call for proposal, therefore no Italian partners will participate in the second call.

Please check below the eligibility map.

Other regions are able to participate but only as a strategic partner and at their own cost.

We strongly advise potential bidders to check your organisaton’s eligibility and compliance with State Aid, early on in the process, before you invest time and effort in forming a partnership and putting together an application.

Click here for information on the Legal Status of your organistion.

The private sector (i.e. profit-making organisations or NGOs which do not fulfill the requirements mentioned above) can participate in projects at their own cost.

Furthermore and subject to procurement rules, the private sector can be sub-contracted by partners to provide services or to assist in the implementation of certain activities. Sub contracted activity must not exceed 50% of the overall budget.

How much match funding do I need?

The amount of match funding you require depends on where the organisation is based.
• Organisations based in South East England, Emilia-Romagna, Andalucia, Noord-Brabant, Stockholm will receive 75% ERDF funding, 25% matchfunding has to be provided by the partners themselves.

• Organisations in the Malopolska and Tallinn Regions will receive 85% ERDF funding and need to provide 15% match funding.

Cash-flow required:

It is not possible to receive an advance payment from the ERDF under the INTERREG IVC programme. This means that each project has to able to pre-finance its activities. The delay between incurring a cost and payment of the ERDF grant can reach up to 10 months.

1st call for projects:

The POWER partner regions have assessed the eleven applications received under the first call. A decision was taken on 30 June 2009 at the International POWER steering committee in Brussels. The International Steering Committee agreed to award funding to four sub projects from the first call, subject to conditions. Four projects were approved under the first call.

Acronym	Title	Country involved	Steering Committee's Decision
BIOMAGIC	Biomass Market Growth In Collaboration	England, Spain,Poland	Not recommended
CORAL	Changing Organic Recycling Acting Locally	England, Spain, Italy, Poland	Not recommended
EnRuPo	Energy Rural Power. Behaviour change towards a low carbon economy in rural areas	Spain, Italy, Poland	Not recommended
EXPORT	Environmental Information Exchange for the Promotion of Cleaner Technologies	Italy, England, Poland, Spain	Not recommended
GENERATION	Green ENERgy AudiTIng for a LOw CarboN Economy	Spain, England, Italy	Recommended subject to conditions
ITACA	Innovative Transport Approach in Cities and metropolitan Areas	Italy, Spain,The Netherlands	Recommended subject to conditions
LABEL3	Development of a methodology of energy performance labelling for existing buildings of small and medium tertiary public sub-sector	Spain, England, Italy	Not recommended
P2P	Power to the Eating People	Spain, Netherlands,England, Italy	Not recommended
PES	Policies for Energy Saving	Italy, The Netherlands, Poland	Not recommended
TRISCO	Transition Island Communities: Empowering Localities to Act	England, Spain, Italy, Estonia, Netherlands	Recommended subject to conditions
WICO	Wind of the Coast	Spain, England, Italy	Recommended subject to conditions

2nd call for projects:

A second round for funding was opened on Thursday 15 October 2009 at the POWER Partner Fair in Seville, Spain and closed on Friday 15 January 2010.
The Italian partner region had already committed all its funding on the first call and did not participate in the second call.
Nine applications were received involving 31 organisations across the partner regions under the second call for proposals. The POWER partner regions have assessed the applications received under the second call. A decision was taken on 17 March 2010 at the International POWER steering committee in Krakow. The International Steering Committee agreed to award funding to five sub projects from the second call, subject to conditions.

Acronym	Title	Country involved	Recommend-ation from the POWER Steering Committee
SFC	Short Food Chains	Netherlands, England, Poland, Spain	Not recommended
SEECA	Strategy for Energy Efficiency through Climate Agreements	Sweden, Poland, Estonia	Recommended subject to conditions
RESCUE	Implementing Renewable Energy Strategies in Complex Public sector Environments	England, Sweden, Spain	Not recommended
TIMBER	Tools for Integrated Management of Biomass Energy Resources	Netherlands, Spain, Poland.	Recommended subject to conditions
SILCS	Strategies for Innovative Low Carbon Settlements	Netherlands, England, Spain,	Recommended subject to conditions
E-Mob	E-Mobility	Netherlands, Sweden, Estonia, Spain, Poland	Recommended subject to conditions
TraCIt	Transport Carbon IntenCities	England, Estonia, Poland,	Recommended subject to conditions
VITRAS	Evaluating Viable Travel Alternatives with IT Support	England, Poland, Spain.	Not recommended
P.E.	POWER Education on Energy Efficiency	Sweden, Spain, Poland	Not recommended