Project proposals must include beneficiaries from both countries participating in the Cooperation Programme. Beneficiaries shall cooperate in the development and implementation of operations. In addition, they shall cooperate in the staffing or the financing of operations, or in both. The total number of beneficiaries must not be less than 3 and not exceed a maximum of 5, including the Lead beneficiary. Associated partners are not included in the above limits. The maximum number of potential associated partners per project is two.

A Project Proposal consists of the followings:

• Electronic submission of the project proposals into the M.I.S3 of the programme including the “Project Detailed Description” that should be uploaded as a separate (excel) file.
  
  
• The digital version of the following documents that have to be uploaded into the MIS of the programme:

1. The ‘Partnership Declaration’ (standard form provided), stamped and signed by all the participating beneficiaries.
2. The ‘Co-Financing Statement - Non double financing’ (standard form provided), completed, stamped and signed by each beneficiary separately.
3. The ‘Declaration of not generating revenues’ (standard form provided) completed, stamped and signed by the Lead beneficiary. In case of revenue generating projects, a cost - benefit analysis should be attached (using the “Guide to Cost-benefit Analysis of Investment Projects - Economic appraisal tool for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020” here.
4. The ‘Declaration for the non-distribution of profits’ (standard form provided), completed, stamped and signed only by beneficiaries under category of article 6.c (private organisations).
5. The ‘Justification of Budget Costs’ (standard form provided), completed, stamped and signed by the Lead beneficiary for the total project budget.
6. The ‘project readiness sheet’ by the Lead Beneficiary (standard form provided), completed, stamped and signed by the Lead beneficiary.
7. ‘The State aid declaration’ (standard form provided) completed, stamped and signed by each beneficiary separately.
8. Decision of the designated body of each Project Beneficiary (e.g. Municipal Council, Board of Directors, etc) stating its agreement for submitting the particular project proposal, according to the internal rules/statute of each Beneficiary or the national legislation. This document can be submitted before the approval of the Monitoring Committee. For the Italian beneficiaries the Italian legal framework shall apply.