WHAT IS A PARTNER?
Partners are organizations or individuals who share the costs of the project through cash or in-kind contributions. Partners enhance diversity, broaden expertise, maximize the potential impact of the project, and enhance project capacity. All Education Savings Community Outreach projects must be partnership-based to be considered for funding. The roles, responsibilities and financial contributions (cash or in-kind) of partners must be clearly identified (e.g. letters of support specific to proposed project activities). Existing business relationships, organizational affiliations, and/or generic letters of support to the applicant do not, in and of themselves, constitute partnerships under the Education Savings Community Outreach Call for Proposals – 2007. Organizations that do not contribute financially or in-kind directly to project activities are not considered partners under Education Savings Community Outreach, but rather may be considered stakeholders. Partners are not eligible to
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Anyone who gives regularly to Care for the Family by Direct Debit is a Partner. Partners can decide the amount of the donation and how frequently they would like to make donations. Most of our Partners give a monthly donation, but you may decide that once a quarter or once a year is better for you.
The partner is an organisation actively involved in the project (from its conception to its implementation).)It should never be a subcontractor and it really has to be involved in the good implementation of the project. Even if it is not responsible for the financial management towards the Commission, a bad monitoring of the tasks which are entrusted to it will trigger injuries that will be attributed to him. Concerning European projects submitted to the European Commission, a coordinator normally has to create a partnership with at least two other Member States and also with third countries (Candidate countries, ACP countries depending on the nature of the cooperation programme). All the structures or countries involved in the design of the project form a partnership. There are several kinds of partnerships: Regional partnerships are sometimes compulsory (especially in the frame of the Structural Funds). Cross-border partnerships, between countries having at least one common border. B
