03 - CALL ANNOUNCEMENT NOT LISTED PROJECTS We are partner of Standard and Standard+ projects not listed in the Call Announcement. Can we participate in any partnerships?

03 - NGO participation Can an NGO participate in the call?

3 - OFFICE AND ADMINISTRATION COSTS Why the amounts related to the BL “Office and administration costs” are equal to 0 in the sub-section “Expenditure of partner” (Sections B and E)?

03 - REPORTING PERIODS In order to define deliverables delivery dates and spending forecast, which are the official project reporting periods?

04 - MANDATORY IPA CODE Is the IPA code mandatory for all pps?

4 - REPORTING OF EXPENSES IN CURRENCY OTHER THAN EURO Among the expenses to be reported in SIU we incurred in travel costs paid in a currency other than euro and already reimbursed in national ...

04 - STAFF EXPENSES OF THE UNIVERSITIES Universities having the official seat outside the programme area but a branch in the eligible area can report the salaries of the staff working in the headqua...

04 – Participation of CNR and OGS NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL - CNR and Italian NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND EXPERIMENTAL GEOPHYSICS - OGS can be assimilated to Universities and therefore b...

05 - EXCHANGE RATE KUNA/EURO FOR PROOFS OF PAYMENT In what currency shall we insert the proofs of payments in SIU?

05 - PROJECT ACRONYM RESTRICTIONS Are there any restrictions and indications for the project acronym?

05 - SIU: NUMBER OF USERS Is it possible to register in the SIU system the same institution linking it to more than one users?

05 – Application form offline – section F pag. 13 In the section F, page 13, the Application Form offline requires the filling of the “Cooperation Criteria” to complete basing on the Factsheet n.1 ...

6 -  REPORTING OF STAFF COSTS How should we proceed for reporting staff costs?

06 - CAPITALIZATION/DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW METHODOLOGY Could a project, built on a 2007-2013 Interreg project and focused not on capitalization of the achieved results but on application of the develo...

06 – N° of projects to be funded Are you considering to finance only one project for cluster ore it could be even more than one?

06- PERSON IN CHARGE OF SIGNATURE If the person in charge of signature does not correspond with the Legal representative, is it necessary that this is supported in SIU by any Power of signature decl...

07 - ELIGIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTATION COSTS Pending final approval of strategic project proposals eligible for funding, are implementation costs incurred before approval eligible for reimbursement?

07 - PROBLEMS WITH TOTAL SIZE OF ANNEXES We have problems when uploading annexes, sometimes the System blocks us.

07 - “STANDARD+” PARTNERSHIP Can a “Standard+” project have a Lead Partner which was not part of the original / capitalized 2007-2013 funded project?

07 – Eligible costs Are the space adaptation costs needed for the implementation of the project activities eligible?

08 - CONTRACT CONCLUDED BETWEEN TWO OR MORE PUBLIC BODIES/BODIES GOVERNED BY PUBLIC LAW Can a project partner, with legal personality as public body/body governed by public law, sign an agreement wi...

08 - HOW TO INSERT EXPENSES IN SIU THAT ARE NOT IN THE AF BECAUSE THEY ARE APPROVED BY THE LP WITHIN THE FLEXIBILITY RULE We do not manage to insert expenses in activity 3.1 because in AF we had no ...

08 – LPs & SIU     All potential Lead Applicants are already registred in SIU with valid account. Can we use the same account (of an existing coordinated project) to open direct...

09 - ASSIMILATED PARTNER AS LP Can an Assimilated partner as foreseen by the INTERREG V A Italy-Croatia Programme also apply as Lead Applicant?

09 - EQUIPMENT DEPRECIATION What's the depreciation rate to be applied to a laptop used for the project?

09 – Capitalizing more projects in Cluster Call    If a PP participated in more than one Standard or Standard+ project, among those mentioned in the thematic focus table for the same Clus...

10 - ASSOCIATED PARTNERS Are associated partners/ observers foreseen? Are letters of support required among the annexes?

10 - CONSUMABLES Within which BL is it possible to report expenses concerning consumables (test tubes and similar)? Can these be considered as thematic equipment? And then, if disposable (exclusivel...

10 – Financial options and reporting    Concerning financial option: in case of option C, are Office and administration costs (in the amount equal to 15% of Staff costs) considered as fla...

11 - UNIVERSITIES ASSIMILATED PARTNERS Where shall a University located outside the Programme area and acting as Assimilated Partner indicate the branch office located in the Programme area and impl...

11 - WEATHER STATIONS’ SENSORS TO BE PURCHASED Some weather station already owned by the beneficiary need some new sensors in order to develop some project activities foreseen into the AF. These sens...

11 – Supporting documents    With reference to the cluster call for proposals currently open, I would like to ask whether the "Lead Partner/Project partner declaration" is the only one do...

12 - PARTNERS LOCATED IN THIRD COUNTRIES Can a public or private body located outside the Programme eligible area, including countries outside the EU, apply as project partner in the framework of th...

12 - STAMP NEEDED FOR OFFICIAL DOC Are partners supposed to make a project seal (stamp) and use it for official documents?

12 – FS4 and budget tool    FS4 suggests using the “budget tool” available on the Programme’s website to design a sound budget, nevertheless there is no such tool in the section Cluster C...

13 - DEADLINE FOR REPORTING Is it possible to fix different internal deadline for the PP's delivery of the material concerning the activity report to the LP, and for the material concerning the fina...

13 - IN KIND CONTRIBUTIONS & CO-FINANCING Can a project partner co-finance its 15% of contribution with staff costs? Is this against the Programme provisions related to in-kind contributions?

13 – Proposal submission: Annexes and AF    Section M description in FS4 is about signing and uploading annexes before submission, but it lists the “Application Form without signature” as...

14 - TIMING FOR FLC VALIDATION How long it takes for the MA to approve the FLC?

14 - VAT REGIME Is exemption from VAT foreseen within the Italy-Croatia Programme?

14 –  Reporting periods    Maximum project duration is 15 months; should we consider having only 2 reporting periods (i.e. 6 months + 8 months) or more? Please also specify suggested...

15 - BUILDING OWNERSHIP In case of fitting-out or renovation of buildings and premises foreseen by a project proposal co-funded by the Programme: which kind of contract is required in order to inter...

15 - POSTPONING THE STARTING DATE OF THE PROJECT Due to the delay in ending the process of conditions clearing, is it possible to postpone the starting date of the project?

15 – Aditional activities and SIU limitations    SIU does not allow to add additional actions besides the ones already pre-set: is this correct, or is this a SIU malfunction? We planned t...

16 - MONETARY AWARDS If a project co-funded by the Programme foresees activities such as “inviting ideas competitions” or cultural/artistic contexts, etc. with the aim of selecting new professionals...

16 - PROCUREMENT For Public Procurement Procedure: if we launch a bid-at-three procedure (from €5.000 to €40.000) and nobody answers, it is possible to proceed with a direct award?

16 – Connection among Clusters and Programme priority axis    I would appreciate if you can direct me to the guidelines where I can find Priority axes of the Restricted Call.

17 - EXTERNAL EXPERTS/KEY STAKEHOLDERS TRAVEL EXPENSES Is there the opportunity to cover external experts/key stakeholders travel expenses in the occasion of any relevant project meeting? If yes cou...

17 - TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION FOR STAKEHOLDERS/TARGET GROUPS Are travel, accommodation and subsistence costs incurred by the beneficiary in order to enable the participation of stakeholders/target gr...

17 – Digital campaigns and activities    Can you explain the difference between “digital campaigns and digital communication activities”?

18 - ACCREDITATION TO SIU VIA GUSI AND LEGAL REPRESENTATION From the User manual: “The request in GUSI is usually submitted by the legal representative of a Body/Company or somebody else in charge”....

18 - EXTERNAL EXPERTS/KEY STAKEHOLDERS TRAVEL EXPENSES (bis) The project will organize a two-day Congress. In Factsheet no.6 point C.5.5., External expertise and services it says "travel and accommo...

18 – Articles published on relevant EU or National magazines    What is meant by relevant EU or national magazines ? Is it INTERREG/Regional policy related publications at EU (or national...

19 - PER DIEM Is there any rule about using per-Diem vs. daily allowance during traveling?

19 - WP COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES Has the Kick-off Meeting to be considered as a meeting related to the start of the project activities or a kick-off event for a wider range of target groups? Further...

20 - LP AND PP DECLARATIONS Is it possible to modify the Lead Partner and Project Partner declaration and add lines in the template?

20 - TRAVEL AGENCY COSTS Are the Travel Agency Costs (invoices) related to staff travel tickets and accomodations payments directly eligible under the Travel & Accomodation budget line?

21 - CHANGE OF THE LEGAL NAME OF THE PP AS IT IS INTO THE SUBSIDY CONTRACT The legal name of a PP as it appears in the Subsidy Contract has changed. What is the procedure for correcting this?

21 - CUU AND IPA CODE What do CUU and IPA codes mean?

22 - "DEPRECIABLE ASSET" AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT Can you clarify the definition of "depreciable asset"? Moreover is the laboratory equipment considered as thematic equipment? In which case can it b...

22 - BUDGET CHANGES Is it admissible a shift of money for a budget line across periods for a single partner?

23 - BUDGET CHANGES (2) How to manage the budget changes in Staff as for the related costs in Office & Administration? Have we take into consideration also these costs when we increase the Staff...

23 - RULES FOR DRAFTING THE ANNEXES What are the formalities for collecting the required attachments to the AF (LP and PP declaration, declaration on Power of signature or delegation) as foreseen by...

24 - APPLICATION FORM (AF) ABSTRACT How is the AF Abstract generated? Is it compulsory for all Lead Applicants to attach it?

24 - BUDGET CHANGES (3) It can be possible to to move some budget from WPs within the same BL or from one BL to another?

25 - DEDUCTION ADVANCE PAYMENT Is the pre-financing fully deducted from the first payment claim based on the first progress report or it will be gradually deducted through the payment claims by the ...

25 - WP0, WP1 AND WP2 The SIU system has for WP0, WP1 and WP2 the section Work package details with three fields, “WP expected outputs”, “Durability of WP outputs” and “Transferability of WP” which ...

26 - UTI MUNICIPALITIES Can UTI (as defined by Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Law 26/2014) municipalities participate individually in the calls for the 2014-2020 Interreg Italy-Croatia CBC Programme?

26 - WHO CAN ASK FOR THE ADVANCE PAYMENT Should the advance payment be requested for the partnership as a whole or could it be requested only for the PPs that ask for it?

27 - PARTNERS' NAME ON DECLARATION LETTERS If the name of the Partner is too long to be written in original language and in English in the LP and/or PP declaration template, is it possible to use an...

27 - WHO CAN ASK FOR THE ADVANCE PAYMENT (bis) If only one or two partners can't get the financial guarantee in time, the other PPs can receive the advance payment ?

28 - STATE AID - 2) What happens in case applicants fill in the LP or PP declaration claiming the project activities are not State Aid relevant and the assessors will instead consider those activiti...

28 - TIMING FOR CR PPS According to Factsheet N. 6, Croatian Partners have 10 days to complete and submit the report to the FLC after the closure of the periodic report. Is this something that can b...

29 - SELECTION OF FLC Due to some administrative reasons one of our Public PPs is not sure to be able to select its FLC by the end of the 1rst reporting period. How to deal with this particular case?

29 - STATE AID - 1) Shall a Partner - that is not an undertaking and that has marked “NO” to the point 16 (of the LP declaration) or 17 (of the PP declaration) - answer “NO ” as well to the followin...

30 - CO-FINANCING SOURCE Regarding the co-financing, what happens if public co-financing from a third public organisation is secured (i.e. stated with a legal act) only after the submission of the p...

30 - VERIFICATION OF PPS’ EXPENDITURES BY THE LP The LP verifies the expenditures of the PPs only after the FLC. Is this correct?

31 - TRAVEL COSTS OF PEOPLE OTHER THAN STAFF A collaborator of one PP is seconded from an institute outside the project consortium. This external institute pays the collaborator salary. The collabor...

31 - WEBSITE OF THE PROJECT Should the Programme provide resources for the website of the project and provide for the creation of their webpage?

32 - FLC - 2 Do we have to plan in the budget a specific amount for verification and validation of expenditure as it’s suggested in Factsheet 3? Shall the cost for FLC budgeted under “external exper...

32 - OTHER COSTS LINKED TO THE SALARY Do "other costs directly linked to salary payments" include incentive payments of the staff?

33 - CO.CO.CO What's the staff calculation method to be applied to CO.CO.CO?

33 -  FLC - 1 How does the certification of expenditure work in the Programme?

34 - STAFF COSTS - OPTION "PART TIME WITH A FIXED % OF TIME WORKED PER MONTH" The "gross employment cost" to be used in the case of part time staff with a FIXED percentage of time worked per month, ...

35 - STAFF COSTS - OPTION "PART TIME WITH A FIXED % OF TIME WORKED PER MONTH" (bis) In order to calculate the annual gross salary of the Staff of the project is it possible to consider the gross ann...

36 - HOW TO REPORT COSTS RELATED TO "ASSEGNO DI RICERCA" AND "BORSA DI STUDIO" How to report costs concerning  "assegno di ricerca" and "borsa di studio"?

37 - SELECTION FLC / BUDGET CHANGE Due to some administrative reasons one of our Public PPs is not sure to be able to select its FLC by the end of the 1rst reporting period. How to deal with this pa...

38 - EXCLUSION OF EXPENDITURE DURING THE PREVIOUS PR What happens in SIU with the costs reported  in the previous Progress report and not certified?

39 - EQUIPMENT LABELING How should the equipment purchased with the project funds be labeled?

40 - WITHDRAWN PARTENRS & VISIBILITY RULES Can we remove the withdrawing partners from the project (promotional) materials and digital tools?

41 - REQUEST FORM SIGNED REMOTELY I have to get the request form signed remotely. How can I proceed?