Call for Proposals for Transnational Networking Activities by the ESPON Contact Point network

The Transnational Networking Activities under Priority 4 of the ESPON 2013 Programme shall provide targeted transnational capitalisation, awareness rising and dissemination of ESPON results with the specific objectives of (1) involving policy makers, practitioners, scientists and young academics and (2) promote the European perspective of territorial development, competitiveness and cohesion.

The second Call for Proposals for Transnational Activities carried through by the ESPON Contact Point network is open.

The available budget for this call amounts to 1.300.000 €.

Potential beneficiaries of this call are only the institutions nominated by Member and Partner States that are confirmed by the ESPON Monitoring Committee as ESPON Contact Points (ECP).

At its meeting on 16 February 2010, the Monitoring Committee decided that the following principles shall govern this call:

• the call will be open to all ECPs;
• the ECPs will have the possibility to participate in several proposals; however, in case of all thing being equal at the evaluation stage of the proposals, the preference for selecting a proposal will be given to proposals including (the maximum number of) ECPs who did not participate in applications beforehand.

The deadline for submitting proposals for this call is 28 June 2010.

Please find below the Application Pack - Priority 4, which includes all the relevant documents related to the Call for Proposals.

Potential applicants are recommended to also take into account the legal framework accessible here.