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The Managing Authority (MA), assisted by its branch office, has completed the administrative and eligibility compliance checks for all 36 applications submitted in the Call 6, closed on 27 February 2020. Those applications that passed the checks are forwarded for the quality assessment that is foreseen to be completed by the end of May. The final decision of the awards will be taken by the Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) in June 2020.

The result of the check is recorded in the PROMAS for each application and it is visible for the applicants as the current status-information. In case the application is rejected, the lead partner may submit an inquiry for the MA to get further information. Use the official email official[@]sefrcbc.fi for the contact.

Official decision (Executive Order) of the selection process is sent to each lead applicant by the end of August, after the JMC meeting and the approval of the minutes.

Managing Authority office in Lappeenranta is closed for the Easter holidays during 9.-13. April.

Bulletin 3.4.2020

Due to COVID-19 outbreak, the Regional Council limit its office hours to 8-10 on workdays until 13 May. 

As of 18.3.2020 our office at Kauppakatu 40 D, 53100 Lappeenranta is open from 8 to 10 to receive posts and other deliveries.  Our personnel is mostly working remotely and available via phone and email.  Meetings that are not cancelled, are organised mainly by using on-line tools and all changes are informed to participants accordingly.

Information-links of the Covid-19 news are also made available at  

Regional Council of South Karelia acts as the hosting organisation for the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 Programme. The CBC unit is also limiting its office services and travelling of the personnel. Meetings and consultations are organised mainly by using on-line tools. For the time being, it may be necessary also to cancel or postpone projects’ work trips and events. Guidance, in connection to the costs with no refund possibility, is given at  COVID-19 information for projects.  Programme’s branch office personnel in Saint Petersburg works mainly remotely and  prior contacts  to agree of the visits are recommended.

For further information:
Regional  Council  of South Karelia,  Director  for  administration, development and HR
Olli Seppänen, Tel. +358 40 139 0175,  [email protected]

South-East Finland – Russia CBC Programme, Programme director
Jukka-Pekka  Bergman, Tel. +358 50 437 0339,  [email protected]

Update 16.3.2020 
This spring, due to COVID-19 virus outbreak, project consultations are organised as the on-line meetings. This change does not affect to booking appointments, which is available at on-line booking service. Prior the meeting, the Managing Authority shall send on-line link to the e-mail address given at the booking phase. Received link must be shared among the participating partners. Kindly pay attention that the changed situation highlights the importance of the projects’ internal communication and coordination. Offered on-line service does not necessary require application instalment, and may be used as a web-based connection. In any questions on technical issues, contact [email protected] or [email protected].

Projects may consider the need for consultation for example via following questions:

• Are there open questions or hesitations relating for example to reporting, activities, budget, payments etc. that would benefit of the MA’s guidance?
• Are there any thoughts relating for example to empowering of activities for more effective results that would benefit of the MA’s prior opinion?
• Are there any questions relating to partnership or visibility where the consultation could help?

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CONSULTATION DATES AND VENUES  

(1,5 hours per meeting, local time)  

7-8 April 2020 and 14-15 April 2020 

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HOW TO BOOK AN APPOINTMENT?  

Project partners are encouraged to have an internal discussion on possible consultation needs and if noted, to book an appointment by the lead partner following steps 1-4:  

Consultation booking service is open until 3.4.2020. 

Step 1 Enter the on-line booking service and select your project’s coordinator from staff list.  

Step 2 Select the suitable date and time from the available options in the calendar.  

Step 3 Fill in the requested information. Inform the number of participants and headlines of appointment topics from the project’s side in the open text box.  

Step 4 Confirmation of the booked appointment is received to the given email address.

(Next consultation days will take place in the Autumn 2020)

For the time being, due to COVID-19 outbreak, it may be necessary to cancel or postpone project related work-trips and events that are already booked and confirmed. In case of such changes, costs with no refund possibility are considered eligible. Documents in such case are presented by the standard procedures accompanied with a short description of the grounds causing the cancellation. Concerning travelling and participation to the events and meetings, instructions and recommendations from the project partners’ own organisations and national authorities, will apply.

For further consultation or need for advice, contact your project’s coordinator in the Managing Authority.

Are you curious to know what happens in a CBC project? And who are the people having their daily work in the Finnish-Russian cooperation activities?

We offer you an easy way to learn more by following our Social Media Day on 17 March 2020. Follow our Twitter,  Facebook and Instagram accounts where we in the programme administration and our projects in their own locations post with #cbctoday

This is a joint visibility action of ENI CBC programmes South-East Finland – Russia, Karelia and Kolarctic.

Programme Manual full version 0.3 is published with some technical updates in the Parts C and D concerning accounting, use of euro, verifying indicators and reporting procedures of the funded projects. The main change is that the interim report annexes are no longer required in paper versions to the MA, electronic versions uploaded in the PROMAS are enough. Originals of the projects’ outputs are send with the final report.

Download new manual here:  https://www.sefrcbc.fi/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/03/Programme-Manual-SEFR-CBC-2014-2020_Full-version-0.3_English.pdf

Unofficial translations in Finnish and Russian are also available at https://www.sefrcbc.fi/projects/