Project aim
To improve the export opportunities of small and medium-sized businesses in Eastern Ukraine by reaping the benefits of clustering.
Project objectives
- To encourage cooperation between small and medium-sized enterprises in the development of common services, product development and marketing.
- To strengthen cooperation between business associations and local government by enabling clusters creation.
- To promote export-oriented entrepreneurial skills through the implementation of European rules and practices.
Competitive Scope
A total of EUR 580,000 will be allocated to these projects in 2021.
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While evaluating submitted project applications, attention will be paid to the horizontal priorities of development cooperation: strengthening democracy and human rights, promotion of gender equality, especially implementing Women, Peace and Security agenda, promotion of women’s social and economic engagement, environmental protection and fight against climate change. Additional attention will be paid to the way the project transfers Lithuania’s European integration experience to the Eastern Partnership countries and disseminates the above-mentioned experience in the regions undergoing a transformation.
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Information on the submission of applications for projects, evaluation procedures, implementation and information for providers as well as any other requirements are available in the Description of Procedure for the Implementation of Development Cooperation Activities and Provision of Humanitarian Assistance by State and Municipal Institutions and Agencies approved by Resolution No. 278 of 26 March 2014 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and the Description of the Procedure for the Implementation of the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Programme approved by Order No. V–170 of 12 June 2019 of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.
List of inessential shortcomings (technical errors) of project applications for the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Programme and Project Implementation Agreement template is available on the website of Central Project Management Agency www.cpva.lt, under the section Lithuanian Development Cooperation/Documents.
Lithuanian and foreign legal persons, organizations, their subdivisions, and individuals are invited to submit project applications. The duration of project implementation may be one or more years.
Applicant must have at least one partner in the country where the project will be implemented. A partner is not obligatory, when the project relates to the promotion of democracy or public information, or if an application for a project is submitted by an entity of the partner country or by an international organisation.
We recommend those project applications worth less than 15,000 EUR be primarily submitted to the diplomatic missions of Lithuania, during their calls for proposals, which will be announced on their websites at the beginning of 2021.
For advice or clarification on issues related to submission of applications, please contact the Central Project Management Agency at +370 659 96976 or [email protected].
For advice on applications submitted under the concept No 11, please contact Development Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at +370 706 52244 or [email protected].
Project Applications are filled and submitted in Lithuanian or English through e-form on the Internet. Deadline for the submission of project applications is 3 November 2020 14:00 hrs (Lithuanian time).
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