How can the programme help you to switch?
- Eligible Countries for SWITCH-Asia
There are two ways SWITCH-Asia can help you: by providing grant funding for partnership projects exploring the change to SCP on large scale and by ensuring effective dissemination of knowledge and information originating from the projects.
The grant funds are available for EU-Asia partnership projects building on existing capacity and ‘best practice’ in SCP, especially for clearly identified local problems. Projects should focus on the sorts of processes and communications that can reach large numbers of businesses and consumers.
Funded projects should employ a replication mechanism in order to actively engage in the implementation a large number of SMEs in producing and consuming sustainably.
Eligible Applicants
Applicants can be:
• chambers of commerce
• industrial and professional associations
• regulatory bodies (regional and local
authorities)
• research organisations
• non-governmental organisations
• development agencies
Target group
SWITCH Asia explicitly aims to target Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) as the priority target group, with business (intermediary) support networks and services providers, financial institutions and retailers as most relevant parallel target groups and certainly relevant partnerships.
Eligible Countries
Eligible Countries in Asia:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China*, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, DPR Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam,
Elilgible Countries in Europe:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland**
* excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Chinese Taipei
** only for projects with focus of actions in Least Developed Countries
Financial allocation
The indicative amount available for the period 2007-2013 is approximately 150 million. Funds are also allocated for the national policy support projects and the regional policy support component, and the management of the Network Facility.
Grants for projects are being allocated under the following limits:
Minimum | Maximum | |
|---|---|---|
Grant Size | 500.000 € | 2.000.000 € |
EC Co-financing (%) | - | 80% (90% for LDCs) |
The planned duration of an action may not be lower than nor exceed:
Minimum Duration | The duration of an action may |
|---|---|
Maximimum Duration | The duration of an action may not 48 months |