Setting up of Cross-Border Coordination Points

Opened

Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

EU Preparatory Actions

Programme Description

The main objective of Preparatory Actions is to prepare future EU actions in various priority policy fields.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

PPPA-2025-BRIDGEFOREU

Call

Setting up of Cross-Border Coordination Points

Summary

CBCP and prospective CBCP set-up according to the Regulation aim at providing solution of legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context and in land or maritime border regions of neighbouring Member States.

Any activity for the operational setting-up of CBCP (such as, but this list is indicative only and not exhaustive, rent or purchase of real estate, of digital equipment or systems, of furniture and office equipment; procurement of studies and advise to define the CBCP functioning model; purchase of office supplies; purchase of design and development of web pages; legal consulting; legal assessment of the first files (as defined in articles 7 and 8 of the Regulation) received by the CBCP);

Any communication activity related to the CBCP.

Detailed Call Description

The present call aims at supporting the operational setting up of CBCP, in the framework of BRIDGEforEU. Its main objective is to facilitate MS in the process of setting up said points, by providing financial support. The applicants to the present call should present proposals describing the process of operational setting up of CBCP.

Article 4(2) of the Regulation allows for neighbouring MS to create “joint cross-border coordination points”. Taking that into account, proposals may be submitted by joint CBCP already set, or prospective joint CPCP. In such cases, only one of the MS co-creators of the joint CBCP must provide the letter of Acknowledgment, referred to in section 5.

Duration

Projects should have a maximum duration of 18 months.

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment of the Grant Agreement.

Call Total Budget

€1.800.000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

90%

The maximum contribution per project is set at €120.000.

We reserve the right not to award all available funds, depending on the proposals received and the results of the evaluation.

Thematic Categories

  • Public Administration
  • Regional Development
  • Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
  • Urban Development
  • Water - Management of Water Resources

Eligibility for Participation

  • Central Government
  • Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
  • Legal Entities
  • Local Authorities
  • Other Beneficiaries
  • Parliamentary Bodies
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • State-owned Enterprises

Eligibility For Participation Notes

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

  • Be acknowledged – via the “letter of acknowledgment” attached as ANNEX 1 to the present call – by a MS as an established CBCP according to the Regulation or a prospective CBCP.
  • Be legal entities or “permanent entities” as defined in article 4(3-b) of the BRIDGEforEU Regulation; please note that in the case of “permanent entities”, one of the legal entities composing the “permanent entity”, must submit the application to this call and specify in the submission that it has the legal capacity to act on behalf of the permanent entity to apply to this call and to  undertake any possible future legal and financial obligations towards the European Commission if awarded with the grant.
  • be established in one of EU Member State.

Each applicant can submit one single application.

EU bodies — EU bodies can NOT be part of the consortium.

Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which they are submitted.

Eligible activities are the ones set out in section 2 above.

The following activities are not considered as eligible for funding under this call:

  • activities that do not comply with the do no significant harm principle Projects should take into account the results of projects supported by other EU funding programmes. The  complementarities must be described in the project proposals (Part B of the Application Form).

Projects must comply with EU policy interests and priorities (such as environment, social, security, industrial and trade policy, etc). Projects must also respect EU values and European Commission policy regarding reputational matters (e.g. activities involving capacity building, policy support, awareness raising, communication, dissemination, etc).

Financial support to third parties is not allowed.

 

Call Opening Date

14/08/2025

Call Closing Date

13/11/2025

EU Contact Point

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