The INTERREG III B CADSES Neighbourhood Programme aims at achieving higher territorial and economic integration within the co-operating area, promoting more balanced and harmonious development of the European space. The co-operation area includes regions belonging to nine EU-Member States: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia as well as to nine Non-EU-Member States: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine.

With the 4th call the project applicants will for the first time be able to apply for funding from ERDF, CARDS, Phare and TACIS CBC by a single application form. A joint selection committee will then decide on project selection and approve grants from all four financing instruments.

Priority 1: Promoting spatial development approaches and actions for social and economic cohesion

Priority 2: Efficient and sustainable transport systems and access to the information society

Priority 3: Promotion and management of landscape, natural and cultural heritage

Priority 4: Environment protection, resource management and risk prevention

The table listing the ERDF amounts foreseen for each measure can be found in the ERDF - Funding Possibilities section.

Projects have to fulfil all minimum requirements as described in the Community Initiative Programme (CIP)  and the Programme Complement (PC)  for INTERREG III B CADSES Neighbourhood.
Please note that both documents have been revised. The CIP was approved on 17 December 2004 and the PC was approved on 10 June 2005.

Opening date: The opening date is 26 September 2005.
Closing date:  The closing date of the call is the 07 November 2005.

Project proposals in paper copy (originally signed, stamped and dated by the legal representative of the Lead Partner) sent by courier, mail or hand delivered, have to arrive at the Joint Technical Secretariat not later than 07 November 2005, 18.00h CET at the latest.
The electronic version of the Application Form (Part1 and Part 2) has to be sent to the following e-mail address: cadses@jts.dresden.de and has to arrive not later than 07 November 2005, 24.00h CET.

The Application Package is available for download here . In case of problems with the *.zip file please download each document from the list below.

With the below email communication of 25 October 2005 the EU COM, in reference to the Commission's endorsement of the CADSES Application Package by its letter of 21 September 2005, modifies the Applicants' Manual of the 4th Call as follows:
"Following a number of comments raised about the restrictive nature of point 6 on page 23 of the CADSES Applicants Manual, by this email the endorsed version of the Application Pack should be modified to read:
 6)  Have financial capacity and the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of the last financial year were positive;"

Please be reminded that all financing partners from non EU Member States have to meet this criterion.

The latest version of the Applicants' Manual  is now dated 26 October 2005.

Please be reminded that the official version of the Application Package can be only downloaded from the official CADSES website (www.cadses.net). The JTS cannot guarantee the validity of the documents downloaded from other websites! Changes or extensions of the application documents are not allowed unless explicitly demanded or allowed in the documents.
The official Application Package consists of the following documents:
1) Application Form
a) Part 1 (Word-document).  
b) Part 2 (Excel-document) 
2) Applicants Manual 
3) Assessment Manual 
4) An example of subsidy/ grant contract for non-Member State funding can be found at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/gestion/cont_typ/st/index_en.htm .

Technical advice:

Application Form Part 1 (Word-document): Save the unzipped document on your computer before opening the file. IMPORTANT: Save any changes using the command File/Save BEFORE closing the document! (Otherwise problems with re-opening may occur, in particular under older MS Office versions).

Application Form Part 2 (Excel-document): The changes made to the template "Insert Actions" will be fully visible in the printout version only after saving and closing the document twice (2x). Check the worksheet "Print §4.2 ActionPlan" before the final print.

In case of technical problems contact directly the JTS.

All applications have to be submitted by mail and e-mail to:

INTERREG III B CADSES
Joint Technical Secretariat
An der Kreuzkirche 6
D-01067 Dresden / Germany

E-mail: cadses@jts.dresden.de
Phone: 0049-351-488 1021
Fax:  0049-351-488 1025

Please find all programme documents and further information e.g. concerning ERDF-co-financing, co-financing information for Non-EU-partners etc. on the CADSES - website in the relevant Funding Possibilities section.

Additionally the JTS strongly recommends all project applicants to contact their relevant national CADSES Contact Point (CCP)  to obtain more information on the project application procedure and project development and to attend relevant meetings during the call in the respective CADSES partner states.
Additional information about co-financing by PHARE or TACIS can be obtained at the Transnational CADSES Contact Point (TCCP) Vienna  or concerning CARDS co-financing at the TCCP Thessaloniki  (Ms. Katerina Limenopoulou). Please find relevant contacts under Contacts on this website.
The 4^th call for project proposals has been accompanied by several events in the CADSES region, targeting on the support of project applicants. For regularly updated information about yet upcoming events and activities please have also a look at the news section  .