Advance Payment

The advance payment is not part of the published documentation of the call and we highly recommend that it should have been included, so that the candidates are aware of the financial conditions of the projects. During the previous info day it was clarified that the Greek partners will have access to up to 100% advance payment, and the Bulgarian partners – only to 80% of national co-financing, which is appr. only 12% advance payment. Is there any possibility for increase of the percentage of the advance payment also for the Bulgarian partners, since this low rate is restricting and puts beneficiaries into unjustified unequal position, especially when the projects are supposed to be implemented in parallel and introduce joint activities and solutions. This problem is highly important for the non-government organizations, which usually do not have significant own funding and rely on the bridge program financing. Most of the national programs also have significantly higher rates of advance payment, reaching the level of 50%.