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Reference
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A09
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last
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10.03.2003
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Title
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Asia-Invest
II
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JO/budget
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(2003/C
53/08)
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Directorate
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EuropeAid/115362/C/G.
ALA Asia-Invest II, B7-3010; Project No ASI/ AIDCO/2002/0535.
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General
objectives
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The Asia-Invest programme is designed to help companies
internationalise their business strategies and to facilitate
business cooperation between companies in the European
Union and Asia (south and south-east Asia and China).
Areas of activity comprise:
1. matchmaking activities between European and Asian
companies,
2. development of the Asian private sector in the form
of technical assistance,
3. capacity building of Asian business associations
and networking with European counterparts.
Each activity should take place under one of the following
components:
- Asia Venture: small-scale business-to-business
missions between Europe and the less prosperous Asian
countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia,
East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal and Pakistan);
- Asia Interprise: medium-scale sector-specific
and multi-sector business-to-business encounters to
facilitate partnerships between European and Asian companies;
- technical assistance: capacity-building to
prepare Asian companies for international cooperation,
involving the transfer of know-how, developing business
associations and strengthening links to European companies;
— Asia-Invest alliance: capacity-building and
networking for Asian intermediaries involving the transfer
of know-how, business partner search, information linkages
and personnel exchanges with European counterparts.
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Target
group
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| Applicants
must be non-profit organisations promoting or facilitating
the development of trade and investment between the EU
and Asia. Those could be, inter alia, chambers of commerce,
sector-specific trade and industrial associations, employers'
federations, and local agencies and administrations promoting
or facilitating trade and investment between the EU and
Asia. Partnership between Asian and European organisations
is obligatory under the Asia-Invest II programme for the
Asia-Venture, Asia-Interprise and Asia-Invest alliance
components, applicants must act in consortium with partner
organisations from the other region. For the technical
assistance component, either an Asian or a European organisation
may propose to act alone. However, a partnership is also
recommended to enhance sustainability of the project. |
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Geographical
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the
European Union plus participating Asian countries, which
are as follows: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia,
China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives,
Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and
Vietnam.
Organisations from Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore and Brunei
are eligible to participate in Asia-Invest projects but
should carry their own costs regarding the activities
in which they participate under the programme. |
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Finance
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Overall
amount available for this call for proposals EUR 6 500
000.
Maximum levels of co-financing and maximum and minimum
amounts of grant for each programme component are:
- Asia-Venture
maximum level of co-financing:
- 95 % for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia,
East Timor, Laos and Nepal,
- 80 % for Indonesia and Pakistan,
minimum amount of grants: EUR 40 000,
maximum amount of grants: EUR 80 000,
- Asia-Interprise
maximum level of co-financing:
- 50 % for all eligible countries,
minimum amount of grants: EUR 80 000,
maximum amount of grants: EUR 300 000,
- Asia-Invest technical assistance
maximum level of co-financing:
— 95 % for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia,
East Timor, Laos and Nepal,
- 80 % for Indonesia and Pakistan,
- 50 % for all remaining eligible countries,
minimum amount of grants: EUR 50 000,
maximum amount of grants: EUR 150 000,
- Asia-Invest alliance
Maximum level of co-financing:
- 95 % for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia,
East Timor, Laos and Nepal,
- 80 % for Indonesia and Pakistan,
- 75 % for all remaining eligible countries,
minimum amount of grants: EUR 50 000,
maximum amount of grants: EUR 200 000. |
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Duration
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Asia Venture: maximum 24 months,
- Asia Interprise: maximum 24 months,
- technical assistance: maximum 24 months,
- Asia-Invest alliance: maximum 24 months. |
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Deadline
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June 2003, 16.00 central european time
01 October 2003, 16.00 central european time
08 January 2003, 16.00 central european time. |
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Contact/Address
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Applications
must be submitted using the standard application form
attached to the ‘Guidelines for Applicants 2003’ whose
format and instructions must be strictly observed. For
each application the applicant must supply one signed
original and two (2) diskettes/CDs of the application
form, the budget, the logical framework and supporting
documents (CV, summary sheet of the project, time schedule).
europeaid-asiainvest@cec.eu.int
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/asiainvest/html2002/main.htm
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