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The Managing Authority has published updated version of the Programme Manual, and it replaces the previous publication. New version includes changes in the following topics:

• Part B; new chapter 3.5 describing the risk mitigating measures and introducing possible specified measures and requirements applying to the Russian non-public entities.
• Part B; new numeral order of the chapters 3.6 and 3.7.
• Part C; in the chapter 4.6 the instructions relating to the administrative costs of the projects are specified.

Finnish and Russian translations of the Programme Manual will be published during the week 9.

Managing Authority organizes training and workshop sessions in Finland and Russia for the lead applicants preparing project proposals for the first call in March. Objective is to support preparation of good quality applications and to ensure that the organizations planning the lead partner role are aware of their responsibilities in the project. The trainings will also provide the participants with an overview on how they may improve their performance when dealing with the activities supported by the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme. Registration is done by selecting the workshop according to the priority of the project proposal and opening the electronic registration form of respective event.

In addition to participant information, few questions concerning the planned project and training topics are asked in the form, in order to support the project consultation. Available seats 35 per session, allowing two participants per lead applicant organisation. It is recommended, that a person from the financial and operational units of the lead applicant organisation could be present. In addition, the participants are asked to bring their own workstations (laptop computer, notebook) in order to draft the applications during the training. All workshop presentations have similar content and they are in English. Spoken language in St. Petersburg is English (English-Russian-English interpreter provided) and Finnish in Lappeenranta (no interpreter).

(Registration was closed on 23 March) 

Lead applicants preparing project proposals for the priorities 1 or 2

St. Petersburg 2.3.2017 at 9.30–12.30
LP Workshop St. Petersburg 2.3.2017 Priorities 1 and 2 Event programme

Lappeenranta 6.3.2017 at 9.30–12.30
LP Workshop Lappeenranta 6.3.2017 Priorities 1 and 2 Event programme

Lead applicants preparing project proposals for the priorities 3 or 4

St. Petersburg 2.3.2017 at 13.30–16.30
LP Workshop St. Petersburg 2.3.2017 Priorities 3 and 4 Event programme

Lappeenranta 6.3.2017 at 13.30–16.30
LP Workshop Lappeenranta 6.3.2017 Priorities 3 and 4 Event programme

The South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014–2020 Programme call for proposals is open and first two deadlines to submit applications for the evaluation and decision-making are 15 March 2017 and 30 June 2017. In order to apply for funding, the application and its mandatory annexes should be submitted to the PROMAS system by 23:30 o’clock Finnish time at the latest for the selected round of a call. Financial envelope for the first two calls is eight million euros per round and all four priorities of the Programme are available for applying > Read more PROJECTS

The Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) of the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 had its third meeting on 25 January 2017 in Vyborg, Russia. The JMC took decisions on following issues relating to support of the applicants and project partners. The Programme Manual, a document guiding the preparation of the projects and submission of applications, was approved. It will be published at the Programme’s website PROJECTS on 30 January 2017. Also, the decision on how to organise the work of the Programme’s branch office in St. Petersburg was made. The branch will have two CBC Experts who will support applicants and project partners in their inquiries and needs for assistance. More resources will be provided to the Managing Authority as well. The recruitment procedures on all new positions will be launched in February 2017.

Next and fourth meeting of the JMC will take place in June 2017, to approve projects to be funded from the round of a call closing on 15 March 2017.

Managing Authority of the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 seek a company to provide service entity of developing, maintaining and hosting Intranet (with the option for Extranet use) for the MS Office 365 environment and maintaining, hosting and further development of three websites published with WordPress. Description of the requested service is presented in the Annex 1 Requirements specification.

To participate the competition, the tender must be submitted by 3 February 2017 at 16:00 (Finnish time) according to the Invitation to tender and its annex.

Competition documents:

Invitation to tender-CBC Intranet, Extranet and WordPress

Annex 1 Requirements specification-CBC Intranet, Extranet and WordPress

The Financing Agreement (FA) of the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 Programme was signed on 29 December 2016 by the European Commission, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Finland. The FA includes provisions necessary to implement the Joint Operational Programme adopted by the EC in December 2015. Signed agreement shall be taken to national procedures (ratification) to validate its content in to force concerning the cross-border cooperation actions. The national procedures will take 3-8 months, and they are required before signing the Grant Contracts for the awarded CBC projects.