A7-Other proposals submitted for European Union Funding
Please answer each of the following questionsdiscuss:
Have you or any of your associated beneficiaries already benefited from previous LIFE cofinancing? (please cite LIFE project reference number, title, year, amount of the co-financing, duration, name(s) of coordinating beneficiary and/or partners involved) (max. 5.000 characters)
No.
The partners of COWS do not already benefited from previous LIFE co-financing.
Nevertheless all of the partners, and especially the Coordinating Beneficiary SEARIS has a long and consolidated experience in management of complex technical and environmental project, partially also financed by regional authorities.
No.
For those actions which fall within the eligibility criteria for financing through other European Union financial instruments, please explain in full detail why you consider that those actions nevertheless do not fall within the main scope of the instrument(s) in question and are therefore included in the current project. (max. 5.000 characters)
None of COWS project’s actions fall within the eligibility criteria for financing through other Community financial instruments.
Nonetheless, before submitting this project for requesting LIFE+ co-financing the proponent beneficiaries have examined the following instruments, and found the project not fitting the relevant scope for the reasons said below:
- FP7/ENV: the COWS project does not perform research actions; it relies on proven ............; innovation is brought in mainly by integrating existing knowledge (approaches, methods, techniques, instruments, data) and to institutionalise coordination practices between different actors, belonging to different institutions;
- CIP – Innovation and entrepreneurship transversal theme Eco-innovation: The Competitiveness Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) finances market oriented activities related to the take up of environmental technologies and ecoinnovative activities by enterprises as well as promotion of new or integrated approaches to eco-innovation. In this regard, eco-innovation is intended to market-oriented activities focused on competitiveness. The COWS project addresses the issue of ................ from a “semi-public” viewpoint. Hence, the project aims at developing instruments and tools primarily targeted to public administrators (Municipality, etc) 'without a market oriented, commercial purpose which is not in partners statutes'; - Structural Funds under the “Competitiveness” objective: COWS foresees that ERDF financing falling under the regional OP may contribute to .................., nor do they foresee projects that address transferability at European level.
The COWS project moves from a ..........perspective towards defining a shared approach to .......... in a well-defined policy domain (natural resources) and focussed scope (xxxxxx): in this respect, the RIPARO project may prove helpful to local actors to enhance the territorial attractiveness in terms of "good institutionalised practices" in policy planning, but cannot be financed and implemented under ERDF OPs. INTERREG IVC in its ..... priority ........... addresses COWS theme in a broad way, but is framed within public policies at regional regional dimension involving directly regional authorities, focussing mainly on exchange of existing best practices and without a focus on demonstration, which is pivotal in COWS
