Submission of the second call applications is closed

On February 27, 2014 the online applications system to submit first phase medium and micro project concepts in the second call of the EEA/Norway NGo Fund was closed at 6 pm as announced. Until this date 1731finalized applications were submitted of which 898 are micro and 833 medium project. Division among the seven thematic areas is as follows:

Thematic area:

Micro projects

Medium projects

Total

A) democracy and human rights

40

56

96

B) gender and equal opportunities

37

35

72

C) community and organizational development

278

240

518

D) youth and children issues

192

141

333

E) environment and sustainable development

160

131

291

F) provision of welfare and basic service to vulnerable groups

120

121

241

G) empowerment of vulnerable groups, including Roma

71

109

180

Program managers of the operator foundations were on duty until the last moment of the submission deadline, helping the applicants with any technical or other problems. The Operator Foundations will decide about the post-reception (or non-reception) of applications that were not finalized until the deadline due to justifiable technical problems, given the applicant NGO indicated it beforehand .

Pre-screening will start in the following days after the deadline, the results are expected in approx. two weeks. Every applicant excluded on formal grounds will receive notification and in ambigious cases be asked questions if needed.

The content evaluation involving external experts will start after the pre-screening process is closed, based on the criteria announced in the call for proposals and described in detail in the rules of evaluation document. The evaluation is expected to be closed in mid-April. We will publish the results here on the website and all applicants will be notified via e-mail.

Ithe seven thematic areas (both medium and micro projects) altogether about 130 projects can be supported given the available allocation and the size of grant an application can receive.