IPA – Cross-border programme Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro under the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA III) – 2023

Objectives

• To promote good neighbourly relations
• To foster Union integration
• To contribute to social, economic and territorial development of the programme cross-border area by developing sustainable nature-and-culture tourism

Priorities

• Priority 1: Environment protection, climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management
• Priority 2: Tourism and cultural and natural heritage

Among financed actions

• Small scale cross-border research related to tourism product development and innovation
• Mapping and valorization of cultural and natural heritage in a sustainable way, ensuring balance between protection (including biodiversity) and development
• Investments in enhancing visitors’ infrastructure (e.g. interpretation centres, info points, physical access to cultural and natural sites) and necessary accessibility measures, including special needs for people with disabilities
• Supply of equipment to improve visitors’ experience, specific measures to enable experience to people with disabilities or other specific vulnerable groups
• Cross-border exchanges and networks for the management of unsustainable forms of tourism in the programme area

Additional informations

• This call for proposals is a restricted call for proposals. In first instance, only concept notes will be evaluated.
• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a non-profit making
• Be one of the following institutions or organisations:
  • Local and regional authorities
  • Local and regional organisations engaged in tourism or tourism related activities
  • Organisations, institutions and authorities responsible for protection and management of the cultural and natural heritage
  • Organisations and institutions working in the field of rural development
  • Education and training organisations and institutions
  • Research organisations and institutions
  • CSOs active in the field of cultural or natural heritage, education, rural development and other related fields

• Total budget of the call: 2.16 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 250.000 and 450.000 euro
• Co-financing rate: between 20% and 85% of the total eligible costs