CERV-TT Town Twinning: the application, step by step

What it is

Town Twinning promotes exchanges between citizens of different countries through town twinning, to give them practical experience of the wealth and diversity of the Union's common heritage. A single applicant organises events with the twinned towns of other countries taking part as associated partners. The grant is a prefixed lump sum per event, between €8,455 and €50,745 per project.

Who can apply

A single applicant: a public body or a non-profit organisation with legal personality that is a town or municipality, another level of local authority, a twinning committee, or another non-profit organisation representing local authorities, established in an EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories) or a country associated to the CERV Programme.

Partnership

One applicant only (single beneficiary). The towns of the other countries take part as associated partners, without funding: municipalities from at least 2 eligible countries, at least 1 of them an EU Member State. Each event needs at least 50 direct participants, at least 25 of them invited international participants.

Duration

Normally 6 to 12 months.

Grant

€8,455 to €50,745 per project. One work package holds every event, and each event's lump sum is set by its number of invited international participants.

Deadlines

Deadlines are set in each call. Check the current deadline on the call's topic page on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

How many applications

Applicants may submit more than one proposal for different projects under the same call, but if there are several proposals for very similar projects, only one will be accepted and evaluated.

How it is scored

To be considered for funding a proposal must score at least 70 points out of 100 overall, and reach the individual threshold of 25 on Relevance. The other criteria have no individual threshold.

Proposals that pass the individual threshold for the criterion ‘Relevance’ AND the overall threshold will be considered for funding — within the limits of the available budget (i.e. up to the budget ceiling). Other proposals will be rejected.

Proposals with equal scores are prioritised by their score for ‘Relevance’, then ‘Quality’, then ‘Impact’.

The form structure

Part B, the technical description, in the order of the CERV Part B template (V3.0). Part A — administrative data and the lump-sum budget — is filled in online on the Funding & Tenders Portal.

1. 1.Project summary
   • See Abstract (Application Form Part A)
2. 2.1. Relevance
   • 1.1 Background and general objectives
   • 1.2 Needs analysis and specific objectives
   • 1.3 Complementarity with other actions and innovation — European added value
3. 3.2. Quality
   • 2.1 Concept and methodology
   • 2.2 Consortium set-up
   • 2.3 Project teams, staff and experts
   • 2.4 Consortium management and decision-making
   • 2.5 Project management, quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation strategy
   • 2.6 Cost effectiveness and financial management
   • 2.7 Risk management
   • 2.2, 2.4 and 2.7 are marked not applicable to Town Twinning
4. 4.3. Impact
   • 3.1 Impact and ambition
   • 3.2 Communication, dissemination and visibility
   • 3.3 Sustainability and continuation
5. 5.4. Work plan, work packages, activities, resources and timing
   • 4.1 Work plan
   • 4.2 Work packages, activities, resources and timing
6. 6.5. Other
   • 5.1 Ethics and EU values
   • 5.2 Security
7. 7.6. Declarations
8. 8.Annexes

How you write it in AvenEU

• ✦Part B section by section, with every question of the template and an estimate of the pages your text fills against the call's 40-page limit.
• ✦EUri analyses each section against the call's own award criteria, including the individual threshold on Relevance.
• ✦A Town Twinning budget: each event's lump sum from its invited international participants, with the project total capped at the call's maximum.
• ✦Partner suggestions from Erasmus+ data, filtered to the countries CERV admits, with the call's own rule on who may take part.
• ✦A Word file of Part B that keeps the template's instructions and processing tags, ready to move into the official template.