MAC PROGRAMME PARTICIPATES IN INTERREG GO!
The Interreg MAC programme is participating in the Interreg event taking place these days in Gorizia and Nova Gorica. High level political representatives from the Commission and the different Interreg programmes, managing authorities and other stakeholders will discuss the key points of the consultation on the post 2027 period and on the current and future priorities of European Territorial Cooperation.
The Director General for European Affairs of the Government of the Canary Islands and Managing Authority of the MAC, Celia Alberto, took part as a speaker in the panel dedicated to the future of cooperation at the external borders of the EU, together with representatives of the Interreg NEXT and IPA programmes.
During her speech, she highlighted the unique nature of the EU’s outermost borders in the Caribbean, South America, the Indian Ocean and the mid-Atlantic, and the importance of the Interreg programmes in strengthening their regional integration through closer cooperation with neighbouring third countries.
The Director highlighted the contribution of the MAC programme to the relations between the Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira and their neighbours on the West African coast, creating the right environment to increase exchanges between entities on each side of the border – universities, research institutes, public administrations, port authorities and business associations, among others – always from a perspective of mutual benefit.
The geographical area covered by the MAC programme presents significant challenges, arising from the differences between the partners, not only in terms of economic development, but also in terms of governance and administrative capacity. Thanks to the effort and commitment of the project partners and their interest in making things work, these constraints have been overcome.
‘Interreg MAC is about working together in a win-win relationship”
36 PROPOSALS SELECTED IN THE 1ST PHASE OF THE CAPITALISATION CALL
On 14 March 2025, the second meeting of the Steering Committee of the INTERREG Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands (MAC) Programme 2021-2027 was held online, and decisions were taken on the proposals submitted in the 1st phase of the capitalisation call. The Monitoring Committee ratified these decisions on 21 March.
The evaluation was carried out by external capitalisation experts. In the first stage of the evaluation, of the 67 proposals submitted, 13 were excluded because they did not have a sufficient relationship with climate resilience. The remaining 54 were evaluated using assessment criteria (scores from 1 to 5).
The criteria adopted by the Committee for these proposals were:
- Select the proposals with a score of 3 or higher.
- Limit the submission of projects in the 2nd phase to a maximum of 2 per organisation.
- The same project in the 2nd phase may group together several approved capitalisable results from the same or different projects of origin 14-20.
In the section Call for Proposals/2nd Call for Proposals Capitalisation, you will find a list of the 54 proposals with their corresponding scores.
The Rules of the 2nd phase of the call for proposals for capitalisation have also been published in the same section.
On 11/04/2025, an online conference will be held for all the organisations that submitted proposals selected in the 1st phase to inform about the presentation of complete projects in phase 2. Information will be sent to those selected shortly.
1st STATEMENT OF EXPENSES PAID (for ERDF European partners only)
The 1st statement of expenses paid must include all expenses paid up to 30th June 2025 and must be submitted between 1st and 15th July 2025.
The start date for eligibility of paid expenses will be 21 September 2022 for projects that have period 0 active in the activity schedule and 25 October 2024 (date of signing of contracts) for projects that have not activated period 0.
The Declaration of expenses paid module will be enabled in e-MAC next April; once this module is enabled, you will be able to create and save your expenses and the corresponding supporting documentation. In other words, it is not necessary or convenient to wait for the 15-day period for submitting declarations to be opened in order to create expenses.
We will soon be organising online sessions to explain to the European partners of the projects how the new module for the Declaration of Paid Expenses works. All project contact persons and active e-MAC users will receive information about these sessions shortly.
UPDATED EXPENSE ELIGIBILITY RULES AND TECHNICAL DATA SHEETS BY EXPENSE TYPE
A new version of the rules on the eligibility of expenses and the technical datasheets by type of expense has been published.
Technical datasheet 2 relating to office and administrative expenses has not been modified.
A new Technical datasheet has been added: Datasheet 7. Visibility, transparency and communication expenses.
The following annexes have been published:
- Datasheet 1_Annex I_Staff declaration template
- Datasheet 1_Annex II_Time sheet table
- Datasheet 5_Annex I_Stock register
- Datasheet 5_Annex II_Purchase Declaration
- Datasheet 5_Annex III_Example of amortisation table
We remind you that this documentation only affects the financial management of European partners who are beneficiaries of the ERDF.