Cooperation projects in the third countries

SPECIFIC ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• Funding requested by each project must range from €50 000 to €150 000 and may not exceed 50% of the project's total eligible budget. Applications with funding requests outside of this range will be excluded as non-eligible.
• The events must take place in a country not participating in the programme and involve the cooperation of at least 4 organisations (one project leader, two co-organisers and one associated partner). These four must include three cultural institutions from three of the countries participating in the programme (i.e. the project leader and two other co-organisers), and one cultural institution from and in the relevant third country (i.e. an associated partner).
• The project leader and each co-organiser must be cultural institutions from countries participating in the programme and must have a specific and essential involvement both in the design and implementation of the project and in its financing (a guaranteed financial participation from their own or raised and secured money and equal to at least 5% of the total budget). The involvement of co-organisers must be clearly indicated in the project application.
• At least one of the three co-organisers (i.e. either the project leader or one of the co-organisers) from the countries participating in the programme must either be established or have relevant field experience in the third country in question. Proof of this must be included in the application form.
• The proposals relating to these actions must be presented to the Commission by the relevant authorities in the project leader's country of origin through its Permanent Representation to the European Union by 29 th October 2004.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR 2006:

The call for proposals, the specifications and the application forms can be obtained on the EUROPA server on the Internet at the following address:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/culture/eac/how_particip2000/pract_info/ appel_2006_en.html

Application forms can, if necessary, be obtained from the Cultural Contact Points in the countries participating in the programme (Annex G) or from the unit "Development of Cultural Policy - Culture 2000 Programme" at the following address:

European Commission
Culture and Communication
DG Education and Culture (B-100 – Office: 5/21)
B – 1049 Brussels
Belgium

Should there be any changes in your contact details at any moment during the selection procedure, please communicate it immediately to the same address, clearly indicating your project reference number.

Applications will only be accepted for examination if they are duly completed and submitted on the official application form . Applications that are sent by e-mail or fax or are hand-written will not be accepted.

Applications must be submitted to the above address in one of the following ways:

• By registered post; the relevant date is to be the date of despatch by post, as evidenced by the postmark; or the registered delivery receipt issued by the Postal Services
• By hand-delivery by the applicant in person or by an agent against a signed and dated receipt
• By courier service, the relevant date is:
a) the date of delivery to the courier by the applicant as evidenced by the date of the signed and dated courier form.
b) if the not dated despatch form is available then the relevant date will be taken as that of the delivery to the Commission as evidenced by a receipt issued by the Commission.