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Metropolis - Future Oriented Thinking through Science Fiction

Duration: 2007-2013
Area: Southern Finland (Varsinais-Suomi, Uusimaa, Itä-Uusimaa, Kymenlaakso, Åland. Adjacent: Etelä-Karjala, Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme ), Eastern Sweden (Gävleborgs län, Uppsala län, Stockholms län, Södermanlands län, Östergötlands län, Gotlands län. Adjacent: Örebro län, Västmanlands län), Estonia (Kirde-Eesti, Kesk-Eesti, Põhja-Eesti, Lääne-Eesti. 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.

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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Viljandi Culture Academy(Lõuna-Eesti) -> PARTNER

Tartu Art College (Lõuna-Eesti) -> No time to participate

MKFC Sweden => PARTNER

Estonian Academy of Arts (New Media, Animation, Graphics, Photography)