PROMAS
Kolarctic CBC projects find necessary material here: instructions, other information, and templates for reporting. The central document to get to know is the Project Implementation Manual: it is a guide from the Managing Authority to the projects. It clarifies the conditions and gives many practical advice.
Materials & info
Project Implementation Manual
The Project Implementation Manual has been updated on 25th of January 2021.
Compared to the previous years version, information concerning certain topics have been added or specified. The updated version also includes information for Micro Projects, which were selected in the Fourth Call for Proposals. For this purpose, a new chapter has been added to the manual.
The updates in the manual are about:
- the role of the manual itself as setting requirements for the projects
- communication between the Managing Authority, the Branch Offices and the project
- project events
- eligibility of personnel costs
- eligibility of travel costs
- eligibility of hospitality costs
- procurement procedures: independence of the supplier
- requirement for some more detailed information in the interim report about the indicators
- specified instructions about indicator values
- modification of the project budget
Grant contract
After the JMC has approved a project to be financed and the Grant Contract negotiatios are done the contact person of the project in the Managing Authority drafts a Grant Contract. Each signed Grant Contract will be in PROMAS when it is signed.
The following annexes are in every Grant Contract:
- Annex I: Project Plan
- Annex II: Conditions applicable to Grant Contracts financed by Kolarctic CBC programme
- Annex III: Project budget
- Annex IV: Terms of Reference for an expenditure verification of a grant contract
- Annex V: Contract-award procedures
- Annex VI: Award of procurement contracts by Russian private beneficiaries
Depending on project, other annexes may be necessary.
Reporting
Projects have to provide the reports to the Managing Authority during the implemetation time. A central topic to assess is: has the project delivered what it has planned? This is possible to assess when the deliverables and other outputs are clearly defined at the beginning of the project, and when the project, in its reports, pays attention to describing the activities and outputs according to the work plan given in the application. The Managing Authority will see if the project will keep its promise about delivering results to the target groups.
Following project’s report are filled in and submited in PROMAS:
- Project update
- Interim report (narrative and financial parts)
- Final report (narrative and financial parts)
Auditing
The expenditure of a project shall be verified by an external auditor. Criteria for choosing the auditor, and instructions for the expenditure verification procedure, are presented in Annex IV to the Grant Contract; Terms of Reference for an Expenditure Verification (EV1 Expenditure and Revenue verification procedure).
As a result of the verification, it should be possible to conclude that the costs declared by the beneficiary and the revenue of the project are:
- real (expenditure was really incurred and revenues are identified and quantified)
- accurately recorded (amounts are stated and recorded according to the supporting documents)
- eligible (in line with eligibility criteria) in accordance with the Grant Contract.
Communication & Visibility
The project must carry out communication and visibility activities which raise public awareness of:
- The objectives, activities, outputs, results or/and impacts of the project, and
- The Kolarctic CBC and the participating countries’ support to the project.
The Managing Authority has published a Communication and Visibility insructions to projects, which gives advce and hints about communication of projects in general, and formal requirements set by the programme. You can download it here: Communication and visibility instructions to projects
Visibility material: Kolarctic CBC logos to be used by projects>>
Collecting and reporting Kolarctic CBC Indicators
Kolarctic CBC projects have in the application phase included in their plan some indicator info: figures on mostly quantitative targets for outputs and results. The MA has collected instructions for collecting and reporting the indicator data – and what the indicators are for. You can see them in this file: Collecting and reporting Kolarctic CBC Indicators
Promas
PROMAS is an electronic Programme Management System, which project partners use during the whole Project cycle.
The system is used for submitting Payment requests, Interim and Final reports, Project updates, Amendment requests etc. to the Managing Authority.
Delivery of signed documents
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the original signed Annex 7 of the Financial report shall be submitted latest with the next Interim report (payment for next Interim report will not be paid before receiving of the originals). Same rule applies for the singed Interim report (print from PROMAS) and Payment request. Although all scan copies of the signed documents have to be submitted to the Managing Authority in order to approve the Interim report. If you are having difficulties getting signatures to the documents to be provided to the Managing Authority, please be in contact with your project contact person, or the person checking your report in the Managing Authority. Instructions will be given on a case by case basis. In cases where you need to contact the Managing Authority, the partners first contact the Lead partner, after which the Lead partner contacts the Managing Authority.
Material for projects
Manuals for projects (last update 25 January 2021)
Kolarctic CBC logo to be used by projects
Grant Contract and its Annexes
STANDARD PROJECTS: Documents for the Financial part of Interim Report (last update 15 MAY 2020)
STANDARD PROJECTS: Documents for Expenditure and Revenue verification (last update 15 May 2020)
MICRO PROJECTS: Documents for the Financial part of Final Report
MICRO PROJECTS: Documents for Expenditure and Revenue verification
Online training
Online learning platform on Cross-Border Cooperation under the European Neighbourhood Instrument!
Video tutorials, written guidance and training material to support you in project implementation: Project Management and Monitoring, Financial Management, Expenditure Verification, Communication and Capitalisation.