The European Commission has announced the selection results for the Capacity Building in Higher Educationform 2016 as a result of the EAC/A04/2015 Call for proposals.
In total, 736 proposals were submitted (43% more as compared to 2015) of which 517 by Programme Countries and 219 by Partner Countries. Out of this total number, 83 were found to be ineligible. The main reasons of rejection were the non-respect of the rules for the partnership composition (e.g. lack of compliance with the requirement for minimum number of higher education institutions, the applicant was not a higher education institution or association of higher education institutions or the Ministry of Education in the Partner Country was not included in applications for Structural Projects).
As a result, in the framework of the available budget for the CBHE Call, the Evaluation Committee recommended a total of 147 applications for EU funding out of which 121 proposals are Joint Projects and 26 Structural Projects. This represents a success rate of 20% from the total number of submitted applications and 22.5% from the eligible applications (lower than in previous year 27%, from the total number of applications and 30% from the eligible applications). In addition, the Evaluation Committee agreed to establish a reserve list of 18 proposals, ranked in order of priority per region, in the event that any of the shortlisted 147 proposals is not contractualised.
This year, under the call for capacity building projects 41 applications that had partner universities from Moldova were submitted. Out of these 4 projects got to be selected for funding.
The total requested funding for these 147 proposals is €131.188.239,86, from the total available budget of €131.470.000, meaning that only 0,2% remains unspent, which is nevertheless transferrable to the next Call to be published in September-October 2016.
The list of projects in which Moldovan universities are involved and detailed information about the projects can be found here. The complete list of the 147 selected projects can be accessed here.
Source: EACEA