The Grant Robot is HERE!The EEA and Norway Grants were thoroughly represented at the Forum of European Funds in Warsaw on 7-8 May 2009.
1250 projects, programmes and funds of a total value of euro;1.2 billion are now set to benefit from financial support through the EEA and Norway Grants. Environmental protection and efforts to preserve our common cultural heritage make up the largest groups of beneficiaries.
April 2009 saw the approval of the first EEA Grants projects in Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania*. In total, 140 Bulgarian, Greek and Romanian projects have been approved, making up some euro;100 million in project support.
More than 1 in 5 projects are implemented in collaboration with partners from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Entities from the donor states are involved in some 300 partnership projects accross Central and Southern Europe.
5,000 seedlings and an EEA and Norway Grants project put the environment into the limelight in Warsaw`s city park.
At the Pure Heart centre for hobby activities in Slovakia, children and young people are given the opportunity to take part in organised after-school activities.
The euro;2 million Bulgarian NGO fund provides long-awaited grants to civil society projects across Bulgaria. To date, grants have been awarded to protect victims of human trafficking and train civil rights activists and human rights laywers.
Flora and Kelme municipalities are working together to improve living and learning conditions for the children at Vijurkai children`s home.
Today, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway committed the remaining funding of the EEA and Norway Grants 2004-2009. 1249 projects, programmes and funds in the 15 beneficiary states are supported to reduce economic and social disparities in Europe.
Through 19 NGO funds supported by the EEA and Norway Grants, smaller and easily-accessible grants are made available to non-governmental organisations. Support to a fragile civil society is one of the cornerstones of the EEA and Norway Grants.
