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The general objective of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (‘Mechanism’ or ‘UCPM’) is to strengthen the cooperation between the Union and the Member States and to facilitate coordination in the field of civil protection in order to improve the effectiveness of systems for preventing, preparing for and responding to natural and man-made disasters.

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Project budget (maximum grant amount): €750.000 per project. The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public bodies);
• be the national level civil protection authority or a national authority with disaster risk management responsibilities of eligible countries;
• be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • UCPM Participating Countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
    • Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine;
    • Other countries: Georgia and Kosovo, in view of their ongoing efforts to join the UCPM.

According to the Financing Decision, the applicants have to be national disaster risk management authorities of eligible countries. This includes civil protection authorities and other authorities with disaster risk management responsibilities. Whenever the applicant is not a national civil protection authority, the application should include references to the relevant legal basis showing the responsibilities of the applicant in the disaster risk management area.

Consortium composition:

In the context of this call, which is targeting single applicants, by ‘consortium’ we refer to the applicant (beneficiary) plus, possibly, affiliated entity(-ies) and/or associated partner(s).

Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries); affiliated entities are allowed, if applicable and duly justified.

Due to the technical nature of the activities and the administrative structure in case of decentralised administrations, a  legal entity having a legal or capital link with the main applicant, which is neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation, may take part in the action as an Affiliated Entity.

Affiliated entities may declare eligible costs. It is therefore important that applicants correctly identify the Affiliated Entity(-ies) in the application form.

Where an action, due to its nature, should require sub-contracting (e.g. to make available a specific/technical expertise), the eligible applicant will still need to keep the “steering” of the action and ownership of its outputs. Under this call for proposals, the entire action may be sub-contracted, except for the tasks of reporting and submitting of the deliverables to the Commission.

In all cases, the eligible applicant takes the responsibility for the oversight and execution of the activities and for the final deliverables to the Commission.

Applicants may participate with associated partners (i.e. partner organisations which participate in the action but without the right to get grant money). They participate without funding and therefore do not need to be validated.

During the evaluation phase, the Commission reserves the right to assess the qualification of an entity other than the beneficiary identified in the application form, according to Article 187 of the Financial Regulation.