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This seminar provides an overview of the assessment process for the ADRION first call for proposals, including administrative and eligibility checks, strategic assessment, operational assessment, quality assessment, and state aid and anti-fraud checks.
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Interreg V B Adriatic-Ionian ADRION Seminar for Applicants Athens, 7 March 2016
ADRION first call for proposals – Selection process Administrative & Eligibility checks If the proposal does not pass one of the steps, it does not progress the appraisal or the affected partner is excluded Strategic assessment Awarding score (contribution to EUSAIR) Operationalassessment Evaluation supported by external independent experts and National Contact Points Financial capacity check on private partners State Aid & Anti-fraud checks Monitoring Committee decision
ADRION first call for proposals – Assessment process Administrative & Eligibility checks • Verification of submission requirements; • Verification of presence of minimum requirements; • List of administrative and eligibility criteria to be respected available in the Programme Manual; • Healing of the identified errors is not possible.
ADRION first call for proposals – Assessment process Quality assessment Strategic assessment Operationalassessment
ADRION first call for proposals – Assessment process Quality assessment scores…
ADRION first call for proposals – Assessment process … and quality threshold … • Strategic Assessment: only those project proposals which have reached: • an overall score of at least 48/80 (60% of the overall score related to strategic elements) and • at least 12/20 for each criteria (60% of the score at criterion level) of the Strategic Assessment • will be subject to the Operational assessment. • Operational Assessment: only those proposals which have reached: • an overall score of at least 48/80 (60% of the overall score related to strategic elements) and • at least 12/20 (60% of the score at criterion level) for each criterion • shall be appraised according to the foreseen further steps.
ADRION first call for proposals – Assessment process Awarding score (contribution to EUSAIR) • Attribution of the awarding score takes place after the strategic assessment on condition that the proposal has positively passed the strategic assessment; • Attribution of up to 5 points if the project proposal contributes to the implementation of the EUSAIR strategy; • The awarding score does not contribute to the overall strategic score but it shall contribute to the overall final project score; • Overview tables highlighting relations between ADRION and EUSAIR available in the Programme Manual (annexes).
ADRION first call for proposals – Assessment process Financial capacity check of private partners Verification of the declarations provided by private partners through checks of balance sheets. State Aid & Anti-fraud checks Verification on the respect of Competition rules and verification on the presence of fraudulent behaviours.
ADRION first call for proposals – State Aid checks State Aid • State Aid checks apply to all project financing partners (public & private, ERDF and IPA partners; • Use of de minimis (i.e.: ceiling of EUR 200.000 for those activities considered State Aid relevant over any three tax year period); • The ceiling applies per EU Member State (i.e.: Italy); • Checks performed by independent experts.
