Deadline for applications: 15.04.2016.
Applicants: Local and regional self-government units
Partners: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Associations, Cooperatives, Faculties, Informal Associations and Initiatives, Development Agencies, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Institutions
In 2016, the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds continues to invest in the islands through Island Development Programme encouraging local and regional self-government units to make a meaningful investment in the development of island infrastructure and economy.
Objective of the Programme
- creating preconditions for sustainable economic and social development by increasing the quality of life on the islands through encouraging the development of island specifics.
Beneficiaries of the Programme
- local and regional self-government units which, within their administrative boundaries, include Croatian inhabited islands and their occasional inhabited and uninhabited islands and islets and the Pelješac peninsula.
Coverage of the Programme
- refers to the inhabited islands of the Republic of Croatia located in the territory of six regional self-government units, i.e. six coastal and island counties (Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Lika-Senj, Zadar, Šibenik-Knin, Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva) to which the islands belong territorially and administratively.
Eligible partners Applicants may be:
– local and regional self-government units;
– enterprises owned by the State, regional governments or local authorities; public bodies and equivalent bodies (funds, agencies, etc.);
– public institutions established by the State, regional (regional) or local self-government units (public institutions for education, science, culture, information, sport, health, social welfare, care for the disabled and other activities);
– cooperatives and civil society organisations – associations.
Partnership on the project includes:
– financial assistance in the implementation of the project (additional source of co-financing to the applicant);
– operational support in project implementation (support through provision of human and material resources for project implementation, etc.).
Projects are eligible related to the following areas:
– development infrastructure;
– municipal infrastructure;
– social/social infrastructure;
– public infrastructure;
– environmental protection, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources;
– basic entrepreneurial infrastructure to or within existing entrepreneurial zones;
– infrastructure for the purpose of improving the tourist offer.
Eligible activities are:
– the execution of works;
– the construction/reconstruction/rehabilitation/adaptation and modernisation of existing buildings;
– works on the modification of facades, windows and doors, the improvement of lighting, heating and cooling systems, the installation of boiler rooms, the installation of solar systems, hot water heating systems, etc. (activities achieving at least 20% energy savings and incentivising energy efficiency);
– works for the construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation of basic entrepreneurial infrastructure, to or within existing entrepreneurial zones, where the lack of such infrastructure constitutes an obstacle to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises;
– works on the construction and rehabilitation of infrastructure facilities for the purpose of improving the tourist offer (extension of the tourist season, diversity of the tourist offer).
Total value of the co-financing amount maximum amount per applicant 2.000.000,00 HRK. The minimum amount of funds that the Ministry can approve for a single project is HRK 100,000.00. A project whose total value is less than HRK 110,000,00 or HRK 140,000,00 (depending on the level of development of the local and regional self-government unit of the place of implementation of the project), will not be co-financed.
Deadline the filing of the application is up to April 15, 2016.
Full documentation can be downloaded here
