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Town Twinning

CERV Lump Sum Grants

Basic Information

Identifier
CERV-2024-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT
Programme
Call for proposals for Town Twinning
Programme Period
2021 - 2027
Status
Closed (31094503)
Opening Date
April 9, 2024
Deadline
September 19, 2024
Deadline Model
single-stage
Budget
€4,000,000
Min Grant Amount
–
Max Grant Amount
–
Expected Number of Grants
–
Keywords
CERV-2024-CITIZENS-TOWN-TTCERV-2024-CITIZENS-TOWN-TTCultural diversity and heritageDemocracyDemocratic engagement and civic participationEU citizenship rightsEurope for citizensEuropean identityLocal authoritiesLocal governanceMigrationMinoritiesMunicipalitiesRule of lawSolidarityTown twinning

Description

Expected Impact:

Towns/municipalities or their twinning committees or networks; other levels of local/regional authorities; federations/associations of local authorities; non-profit organisations representing local authorities.

Expected Outcome:

- An increase in and encouragement of mutual understanding and friendship between citizens at a local level;

- Support for citizens from local communities to experience and recognise the added value that the EU provides through a grassroots approach;

- An increased sense of belonging to the EU;

- Encouragement of a long-lasting bond between municipalities and between citizens.

Objective:

Promoting exchanges between citizens of different countries, in particular through town twinning, to give them practical experience of the wealth and diversity of the common heritage of the Union and to make them aware that these constitute the foundation for a common future

Scope:

Towns/municipalities or their twinning committees or networks; other levels of local/regional authorities; federations/associations of local authorities; non-profit organisations representing local authorities.

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Eligibility & Conditions

Conditions

1.   Eligible countries: as described in the Call document

2.   Eligibility and admissibility conditions: as described in the Call document. 

4.   Evaluation:
      Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the Call document.

5.   Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement: as described in the Call document.

Publication of the call:                                      22/02/2024

Deadline for submitting applications:              19/09/2024 17:00 (Brussels Time)

Evaluation period:                                           September 2024 / February 2025

Information to applicants:                                March 2025

 

Signature of grant agreement:                        June 2025

 

6.   Proposal templates, guidance and model grant agreements (MGA):

Standard proposal template
Call document
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement
Lump Sums Calculator. The Town Twinning call is a lump sums call. These are based on the number of international participants attending the events. The use of this calculator is mandatory to calculate the budget. The calculated amount must correspond to the budget mentioned in Part A of the proposal.

 

Support & Resources

For help related to this call, please contact: [email protected] or the CERV Contact Point of your country.

Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.

IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.

Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.

Latest Updates

Last Changed: May 16, 2024

CALL UPDATE - FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

The results of the evaluation for Town Twinning topic are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted : 392

Number of inadmissible proposals: 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 2

Award of grant to 110 proposals for the amount of EUR 3.998.110 € (out of the total indicative budget of EUR 4.000.000 foreseen for this call)

Number of proposals in the reserve list: 13

Number of above-threshold proposals: 96 for lack of budget

Number of proposals below-threshold due to insufficient relevance and/or quality: 167



Update - Call Closure

The Call CERV-2024- CITIZENS-TOWN-TT closed on 19 September 2024 at 17:00 CET (Brussels time).

392 proposals have been submitted.

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in March 2025.



TUTORIAL VIDEO - Calculator Town Twinning 2024

Dear applicants,

A tutorial video to explain how to fill the calculator is available.

Please check this link: player.vimeo.com/video/945840222

INFO SESSIONS – TOWN TWINNING – 2024

-     16/05/2024 - An info session to present the call and the application process will be organized on line. To register for this event, please click to the this link.

-       05/09/2024 – Questions & Answers session from 10:00 to 12:00.

To attend the session, please click to https://ecconf.webex.com/ecconf/j.php?MTID=m5244e4f611350bda1820508ee53c45f1

 

Last Changed: April 9, 2024
The submission session is now available for: CERV-2024-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT(CERV-LS)
Last Changed: March 27, 2024

 CALL DOCUMENT TRANSLATIONS
Translations into 23 EU official languages of the CERV-2024-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT Call document are available in this  link: www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/call-proposals-town-twinning-cerv-2024-citizens-town-tt_en: 

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