Navegation

1 Introduction
2 EU-funding Programs and Projects
3 Overview
4 Governance and Project Organisation
5 Initiating Phase – Activities and Artefacts
6 Planning Phase – Activities and Artefacts
7 Executing Phase – Activities and Artefacts
8 Closing Phase – Activities and Artefacts
Post-closing obligations
9 Monitoring and Control – Activities and Artefacts
Appendixes

2.6 Characteristics of EU-funded Projects

As we have seen in the previous section, the EU provides funding for numerous projects in a great diversity of sectors every year. EU-funded projects usually conform to the characteristics of projects that we have just mentioned, but also present some additional ones. Because of the public origin of the funds, EU-funded projects are bound to:

Participate in competitive procedures (such as calls for proposals) to justify their merit to receive funding. These competitive procedures are designed to ensure that the best value for money is provided and that all interested organizations may participate in equal terms.
Ensure that the project objectives ****are aligned with EU policy objectives as defined by the EU- funding Programme that provides the funding.
Project design is a crucial element to characterize the internal logical chain of the projects to justify the cause-effect links between project activities and the EU-funding Programme objectives.
Follow a strict normative throughout the project lifecycle in terms of activity implementation, but also in terms of financial justification and other specific contractual obligations.

2.5 Characteristics of Projects

3.1 The House of PM²