The Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds has published an open call for proposals entitled ‘Promoting the sustainable development of natural heritage“, in value of $196 million.
Funding from calls under the European Regional Development Fund, the Competitiveness and Cohesion Operational Programme, is intended for the sustainable use of natural heritage with the aim of contributing to sustainable socio-economic development at local and regional level. The implementation of the projects will ensure an increase in attractiveness and educational capacity and the establishment of a better management of visitors to natural heritage destinations, whereby the projects must be aimed at developing public awareness of the importance of preserving biodiversity and geodiversity.
In line with the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion, eligible applicants for the competition are public institutions for the management of protected areas founded by regional and/or local self-government units, local or regional self-government units and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for investments in a protected area;, and allowed partners are local and regional self-government units, civil society organisations, regional development agencies and tourist board offices.
The tender is conducted as an open Call for Proposals in a temporary modality, with a deadline for submission of project proposals by 5 March 2017 at 23:59, while the delivery of individual project proposals is allowed at the earliest of 6 December 2016
The following activities are eligible under this Call:
1. Preparation of design technical - documentation and studies
2. Implementation of the project
Visitor infrastructure and facilities;
Accessibility and communal facilities;
Education and interpretation;
Promotion and visibility
3. Project management
Documentation of this competition is available at: http://www.strukturnifondovi.hr/natjecaji/1316
If you are interested in applying for this competition, please contact us at rraporin@porin.hr
Opening date of the competition: 22.11.2016.
Deadline for applications: 20.02.2016
Applicants: Local and regional self-government units, Faculties, Primary schools, Secondary schools
Subject: Energy renovation and use of renewable energy sources in public sector buildings where public institutions carry out education activities. This Call will support the implementation of energy renovation measures and the use of renewable energy sources, in particular through an integrated approach.
Purpose It calls for the implementation of energy renovation measures and the use of renewable energy sources in public sector buildings where public institutions carry out education activities that will result in a reduction in energy consumption for heating/cooling through an integrated approach.
Eligible applicants are:
- local or regional self-government units which are:
- owners of buildings which are the subject of a project in which public institutions, established by a local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia, carry out educational activities, or
- founders of public institutions providing education in buildings that are the subject of the project, where the buildings that are the subject of the project are owned by that public institution or local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia;
- public institutions are engaged in educational activities if they fulfil cumulatively the following two conditions:
- they are established by a local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia, and
that the buildings in which they carry out this activity are owned by them or by a local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia.
Mandatory partner is the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund, Energy Efficiency Sector.
Eligible activities:
- Project documentation
- Preparation of project documentation
- Energy renovation
- Renovation of the building envelope – increasing the thermal protection of the envelope that adds, renovates or replaces parts of the building
- installation of a new high-efficiency heating system
- replacing the existing domestic hot water preparation system with a system using RES
- Replacement or introduction of a cooling system with a high-efficiency system
- Replacement or introduction of a ventilation system with a high-efficiency system
- Replacement of interior lighting with more efficient
- installation of photovoltaic modules for the production of electricity from RES for the purposes of ETC
- promoting the use of renewable energy sources by installing solar heating systems;
- implementation of building automation and management systems
- introduction of a system for remote reading of energy and water consumption and a system of energy and water control meters (obligation for project proposals providing for the formation of new ETCs)
- horizontal measures relating to the implementation of new accessibility elements to overcome height differences in accordance with the Rules on ensuring accessibility of buildings for persons with disabilities and reduced mobility;
- professional construction supervision
- Design supervision, if applicable
- the service of the occupational health and safety coordinator during construction, if applicable;
- energy audit of the building, preparation of the report on energy audit of the building and energy performance certificate after energy renovation
- Promotion and visibility of the project
- Project management and administration
- Professional support activities for the Applicant/User by the Partner.
The maximum or minimum grant amount that can be awarded to finance the eligible costs of an individual project proposal is as follows:
- minimum amount of HRK 80,000.00
- maximum amount of 10,000,000,00 HRK.
Grants will be awarded through an open grant award procedure in the form of multiple interim calls with a deadline for submission of project proposals for the first interim call of 90 (ninety) calendar days from the date of publication, at the end of which the award procedure begins, i.e. at the earliest from 22 November 2016 until at the latest 20 February 2017.
If you need a consultation regarding the competition, send an e-mail ivan.kermeci@porin.hr or call on 051/634-333
Deadline for applications: 23.12.2016.
Amounts of funds €: 23.066.666
Applicants: Local and regional self-government units
The subject of the tender shall be the allocation of funds in accordance with Article 13. Ordinance on the implementation of Measure M07 "Basic services and village renewal in rural areas", from the Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Croatia for the period 2014-2017. 20-2020 (NN No 71/2016) (hereinafter: Regulation) for the implementation of type of operation 7.2.2. "Investments in the construction of unclassified roads".
The total amount of public support is HRK 173,000,000. The aid entails the award of dedicated grants. Public support intensity per project/operation is up to 100% total eligible costs.
The minimum amount of the value of the project/operation for which an aid application can be submitted is EUR 30,000 in HRK equivalent. The maximum amount of the value of the project/operation for which an aid application can be submitted is €1,250,000 in HRK equivalent.
Deadline for the submission of the certificate of submission of the aid application referred to in point 5(4) of this tender, it shall start to run from 4 November 2016 to 23 December 2016
If you need them consultancy services for this contest, please apply to dunja.zagorac@porin.hr
Type of competition: Open call for proposals (grants)
Status: open from 17/10/2016 to 16/01/2017
Applicants: economic operators, craftsmen
Summary: Purpose of the Call for Proposals "Energy renovation of multi-apartment buildings“ is the implementation of energy renovation measures and the use of renewable energy sources in multi-apartment buildings that will result in a reduction in energy consumption for heating/cooling through an integrated approach.
Within this Call, funds worth a total of HRK 152,000,000 from the European Regional Development Fund will be allocated to projects for energy renovation of multi-apartment buildings and support to beneficiaries for the implementation of the same:
- GROUP 1 - Energy renovation of a multi-dwelling building
GROUP 2 - Horizontal measures
Grants will be awarded through an open procedure by:
- for GRUP 1 in the modality of multiple interim calls with a deadline for the submission of project proposals for the first interim call of 90 calendar days, i.e. from 17.10.2016 to 16.01.2017.
for GRUP 2 in the form of an interim Call with a deadline for the submission of a project proposal of 60 calendar days, i.e. from 17 October 2016 to 16 December 2016.
Eligible applicants under this Call are:
- GROUP 1 – In the name and on behalf of the co-owners of a multi-apartment building, an authorised representative of the co-owners of the building (representative of the co-owners) or the building manager
GROUP 2 – Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund, Energy Efficiency Sector
Read the documentation and more about the competition here.
