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- A project has limited and fixed objectives and tasks, a limited budget and lifetime.
- The objectives and tasks of any project must be clearly defined.
- A project tackles a certain problem or task using a pre-defined set of measures.
- Tasks that are part of an organisations regular work and that are intended to carry on indefinitely cannot be labelled projects and will not receive project funding.
- The duration and tasks are interlinked.
- The duration should always be only a few years; not over three years.
- The budget should be realistic and viable.
- A successful project creates practices, models, solutions, networks
and/or knowledge that live on after the project ends even without project funding. - Project leader is a project partner which bears the overall responsibility for the preparation and well-functioning of the project.
- Project partners have to fulfill the geographical eligibility. Also legal status and the aims of its activities effect.
Requirements
- At least two of the programme's Member States.
- Cross-border co-operation should always bring added value to the project - and vice versa.
- At least two of the following criteria are met: joint development, joint implementation, joint staffing and joint financing.
- Fulfil the programme's content criteria of cross-border activities and have to follow the Lead Partner principle.
- The project partners must decide on the division of tasks and responsibilities within their partnership.
- Lead Partner is the project partner who later will sign the project application and other relevant documents.
- Is also the only one who can submit the Payment Claim for ERDF co-financing as part of the Progress Report.
- The Central Baltic INTERREG IV A Programme 2007-2013 does not support projects that could be implemented independently in any one country.
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