Metropolis - Future Oriented Thinking through Science Fiction
What Is Metropolis?
Central Baltic Interreg IV A Programme
- Duration: 2007-2013
- Area: Southern Finland (Varsinais-Suomi, Uusimaa, Itä-Uusimaa, Kymenlaakso, Åland. Adjacent: Etelä-Karjala, Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme , Etelä-Karjala, Åland ), Eastern Sweden (Gävleborgs län, Uppsala län, Stockholms län, Södermanlands län, Östergötlands län, Gotlands län. Adjacent: Örebro län, Västmanlands län, Örebro län), Estonia (Kirde-Eesti, Kesk-Eesti, Põhja-Eesti, Lääne-Eesti and . Adjacent: Lõuna-Eesti) and Latvia (Kurzeme, Riga, Pieriga, . Adjacent: Vidzeme, Zemgale).
- Two subprogrammes: Southern Finland + Estonia and Archipelago + Islands.
- Priorities: a safe and healthy environment, an economically competetive and innovative region and attractive and dynamic societies.
- Timeframe: 3rd call during August-September 2009. The call is open 15.9.-15.10.2009.
- Seminar of "How to fill the form" is 23.9.2009 (Turku) and 24.-25.9.2009 (Helsinki).
- Language: English
- All official correspondence and documentation including the application forms and all reporting. With e.g. invoices, necessary evaluations or permits include a short summary in English.
- The language requirement does not exclude that in the day-to-day contact and communication within your project.
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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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Central Baltic Interreg IV A Programme - Important documents
Emailed to
Viljandi Culture Academy(Lõuna-Eesti) -> PARTNER
Tartu Art College (Lõuna-Eesti) -> No time to participate
MKFC Sweden => PARTNER
Stockholm University, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation
Estonian Academy of Arts (New Media, Animation, Graphics, Photography)
Uppsala University, Faculty of Science and Technology
Riga Technical University, Institute of Telecommunications, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Tallinn University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
Tallinn University, Centre for Educational Technology => PARTNER