What is it?
Green Assist is an initiative that supports public and private projects with free, tailored expert advice to help them overcome technical or business challenges in implementing green investments and reducing their environmental footprint.
The initiative supports projects in a broad range of sectors in two different ways: Project Advisory or Enabling Advisory, depending on the nature and needs of a specific request.
Under the Enabling Advisory, advisory services are provided by external consultancies contracted by Green Assist in the field of capacity building of internal resources, for market development studies, and for helping projects to become investment.
Who can apply?
- Applicants must prove their capacity to exchange with project owners when it comes to first identify their needs and later to disseminate the advisory support (via training, coaching, tools, guidance...). In addition, applicants should be able to promote success stories and encourage replicability.
- For a request to be eligible, it has to be aligned with Green Assist’s objectives and scope (i.e. in terms of sectors, geographical area, etc.) and demonstrate that advisory services may feed to project investment decisions.
How to apply?
The InvestEU central entry point constitutes the most efficient way to introduce a request.
The steps to follow are:
- Click on this link
- Click on the yellow button reading 'Central Entry point'
- Click on “I don’t have a project”
- The wizard will guide you through a series of questions
- As you proceed with the steps above, we recommend that you follow the guidance document for introducing a request.
Alternatively, applicants may also introduce their requests to CINEA through the %20CINEA-GREEN-ASSIST
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (functional mail box) of Green Assist.
Once an application has been received, CINEA will:
- carry out a preliminary assessment of the selection criteria and may accept or redirect the request to another technical assistance programme, in case the services can be better provided by other advisory partners,
- collect additional information to confirm the admissibility and eligibility of the request and will liaise with the applicant to draft simplified terms of reference (work programme, milestones...),
- submit the jointly agreed terms of reference to a shortlist of consultancies, one of which will be selected by CINEA as a result of a competitive process. The beneficiary will then directly deal and exchange with the selected consultancy, under CINEA’s supervision, to implement the activities of the work programme.
For each assignment, CINEA will monitor the performance by the contractor, collect the beneficiary’ s satisfaction, and proceed with payment(s) to the contractor.
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