Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level IMPLEMENTATION OVERVIEW Eva Vavřínková BF Working Group – 9th September 2015, Praha

Disbursement First Open Call (01/21/2013 – 12/31/2014) -Allocation EUR -Number of supported initiatives: 26 Second Open Call (10/20/2014 – 12/31/2016) -Allocation EUR -Number of supported initiatives: 1 Third Open Call (01/05/15 – 12/31/2016) - Allocation EUR - Number of supported initiatives: 3 Scope of awarded grants: – CZK (590 – EUR)

Bilateral initiatives Type of supported initiatives: 1 – participation in contact seminars/conferences (courses, working sessions, study visits) 2 – purchase of external services 3 – feasibility studies/ analyses 4 – organisation of seminars, conferences, workshops, working sessions 5 – publicity and promotional activities

Supported initiatives NumberBeneficiary Programme area Related PRGInitiative Number of participants Donor states 1 MPSV PA 28,29CZ M Š MT PA 19,24CZ ČZU PA18CZ02, So Ú AV ČR PA18CZ Kulturn í mosty PA17CZ06, 071,2,3,550 6 M Š MT PA19,24CZ SMOČR PA12(CZ05) V Š CHT PA18CZ091,23 (30)3 9 Langhans PA16CZ0649 (29)1 10 Ú SD AV ČR PA23CZ FSV UK PA18(CZ09)1,42 (10)1 12 DOX PA17CZ Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, v.v.i. PA23CZ Moravské zemské muzeum PA16CZ061, Slovo 21, z.s. PA12CZ Tanec Praha PA17CZ061,3, Botanický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. PA2,3,7CZ NPÚ PA16CZ Czechglobe AV ČR, v.v.i. PA2CZ021, University of Economics, Prague PA23CZ094, DOX PRAGUE, a.s. PA17CZ VŠB‐TUO PA24CZ Výzkumný ústav živočišné výroby PA9CZ ARCHITECTURA, o.s. PA17CZ Biologické centrum AVČR, v.v.i. Hydrobiologický ústav PA9CZ Ateliéry Bonton Zlín a.s. PA16CZ KUMŠT, o.s. PA17CZ061, Sdružení obcí hlučínska PA3,27CZ02, Farma v jeskyni, z.s. PA17CZ Geopark Ralsko, o.p.s. PA2CZ02164

Programme areas

Indicators achieved Number of participants (types 1, 4 ): 477, 156 of them from donor states Number of organized events (type 4): 10 Number of analyses/studies (type 3): 2 Number of external services (type 2): 4 (translation, interpretation) Number of publicity initiatives (type 5): 2

Organisations involved

New Guideline for Applicants Guidelines for Applicants and Final Beneficiaries from the Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level – Effective from , in actual updates – pro-bilateralni-spolupraci/vyzvy-k-predkladani-navrhu/2014/vyhlaseni-3-vyzvy-k- predkladani-zadosti pro-bilateralni-spolupraci/vyzvy-k-predkladani-navrhu/2014/vyhlaseni-3-vyzvy-k- predkladani-zadosti-1668 – New chapters: Documentation of final beneficiary´s and foreign partner´s expenditures, Publicity, Changes in Applications, On-site inspection of the initiatives In September/October, the new Guideline comes into force – Extension of eligible expenditures

I. - Lessons learned General misunderstadings:  Including expenditures not approved in the original Application  - No regards for expenditure limits (Annex 1 to the Guidelines)  No regards for Time eligibility of expenditures  - Pure attention paid to completeness of conclusive documents for incurred expenditures

II. - Lessons learned Specific concern to: - correct data (time of spending, ECB exchange rate, provable documents) - right application of instructions in the Guidelines/annexes (e.g. eligibility of taxi, non-eligibility of some bank/travel service fees etc.)

Thank you for attention