Over 200 participants. A sign of interest, sharing, and participation on the part of Calabrians in response to the 6th (part A + part B) and 7th calls, published by the Programme, with a total budget of almost €12 million (75% EU funds, 25% national funds) and a deadline on march 2nd.
Entrepreneurship, climate change, healthcare, and governance: these are the specific objectives of the calls presented to a sold out hall on February 4th in Catanzaro, in the Citadella of the Calabria Region.
The event was an opportunity to explore the terms of the three calls (beneficiaries, rules, procedures, evaluation criteria, etc.), where to start for the development of the project idea, its start-up and subsequent implementation, as well as advice on how to complete and submit the application form, and what cannot be missing in the project’s communication strategy. And more: eligibility of expenses, how the MIS platform works, frequent errors and lessons learned from previous experiences.
The event was attended by representatives of the Italian National Authority (Paolo Galletta, CTE program coordination and monitoring service of the DPCOE), the Managing Authority (Eva Karagianni, head of Unit A, and Nikoletta Tatari, officer of Unit A) and the Joint Secretariat (Gianfranco Gadaleta, coordinator, and Maristella Mantuano, communication officer, con i project officers, Tina Ranieri e Giuseppe Gargano), warmly welcomed by the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, the regional minister for international cooperation, Antonio Montuoro, and the head of of the department of international cooperation, Raffaele Rio.
Below are the highlights of some of the speeches.
GALLETTA- This is a time for promoting and bringing the new eligible Calabrian territory closer to the calls that have just been launched. Best wishes to the potential beneficiaries that their proposals will be accepted and that they will soon be able to join the INTERREG world.
OCCHIUTO- The countries participating in this program share history and characteristics—as with the Grecanica area near Reggio Calabria – as well as expected growth in the coming years at a rate higher than that of the rest of Europe. Calabria shares with Greece, for example, a vulnerability to adverse weather events. I hope that these calls will be taken as an opportunity to design effective innovation and prevention systems capable of mitigating risk.
KARAGIANNI- We are very satisfied with the participation in the infoday and this gives us hope for participation in the calls we are presenting, so that the presence of Calabrian partners will continue to grow and the territorial coverage of the Program will become increasingly homogeneous.
GADALETA- Territorial cooperation may seem complex to those approaching it for the first time, but it has an equally motivating and interesting component: it is cutting-edge because its projects address issues that only become strategic years later. Don’t be intimidated.
Download at this link the presentations.
Watch the video of the infoday.
