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Apply for funding: the first call for bilateral initiatives in green transition

The Joint Committee for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBF) has published its first call for initiatives focusing on green transition. The call is open until 28. November for all public entities and CSOs. Partnership with Norwegian entities is mandatory.

17. Oct 2022

The call “Strengthening bilateral cooperation between Croatia and Norway in Green transition” aims to support initiatives lasting up to a year and focusing on one of the following areas of support:

Energy and climate change
Blue growth and green maritime
Sustainable aquaculture

All initiatives must be developed and implemented in bilateral cooperation between the applicants/partners from Croatia and Norway.

Please note that identifying, searching and communicating with partners is the sole responsibility of the applicants.

If you struggle where to start, we prepared a web article with all the resources. You can access it here: Finding a partner in Norway for EEA and Norway Grants projects - Norway in Croatia

This call is intended primarily for soft measure activities such as conferences, trainings, capacity building, research, study trips, campaigns (…). The topics of initiatives as well as activities enlisted in the call are not exhaustive and all proposals matching the areas of support and the call’s objective can be considered.

The call is managed by the Ministry of regional development and EU funds and selection of project will be executed by the Joint Committee for Bilateral Relations.

The call in short

The objective: identify and support quality project applications in areas of Energy and climate change, blue growth and green maritime and sustainable aquaculture.

Project duration: up to 12 months

Available indicative budget: 500.000 € (with possibility to increase)

Grant size per initiative: between 40 000 and 100.000 EUR

Eligibility of expenditure: 100%

Deadline for submission: November 28, 2022 at 23:59 (CET)

Call text and documents

Applicant/Partner Statement

Declaration of Absence of Double Financing

About the JCBF

Strengthening bilateral cooperation is one of the objectives of the EEA and Norway Grants. In addition to various programmes of the Grants, each recipient country establishes a separate committee dedicated entirely to promotion of the strategic partnership with donors. Unlike in the rest of the programs of the Grants, in the Bilateral Committee the Embassy has an active role in selection of initiatives. For more details about the call and eligible activities check the call text.