On occasion of the 6th AER Black Sea Summit experts from the Joint Operational Programme Black Sea Basin 2014-2020 presented funding and project opportunities available for regions of the Black Sea area, which will be concretely available with the launch of the 1st call for proposals scheduled on October/November 2016.

The Draft Guidelines for Grant Applicants for the 1st call for proposals under the Joint Operational Programme Black Sea Basin 2014-2020 has been published for public consultation and is currently open until 23rd September 2016.

AER regions and partners are invited to be an active part on this process taking the advantage of sharing their suggestion, recommendation or query in order to improve the drafting of this key document for potential applicants.

Therefore we invite you all to address your messages to the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Programme at the email address [email protected] by 23rd September 2016.

The public consultation announcement is available here.

More information and documents related to the public consultation are available here.