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- What are grants?
Grants are direct payment of non profit nature, which the contracting authority (for example EU, Serbia) intends for promotion or for achievement of their goals.
The goals of EU and Serbia in grant allocation are diverse for example competitive economy, stimulating RTD investments, protection of environment, education, etc.
Important: Grants are not tenders – costs are co financed and not market price for activities.
- Programmes co-financed with grants
Programmes are divided in centralised and decentralised.
- Centralised programmes are managed directly by the European Commission; funds are available to all programme member states. Usually projects have to be written in English
- Decentralised programmes are managed by beneficiary state (EU members, candidate and potential countries), funds are intended to projects managed by national institutions.
- EU grants in 2007-2013
A new financial period which started in 2007 will last 7 years. There are more than 860 billions € available for this period and you can apply for it through different programmes and instruments.
Over 60 different programmes are being opened in this period, which will cover areas form technologies, ecology, biomedicine, inter cultural cooperation to education and gender equality. Let us just mention the 7th Framework Programme for research and technological development and Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance, which is very important and actual for the Western Balkans. Within this programme financial assistance for EU candidate and potential candidate countries (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro) will be available.
