The EU for Municipalities project held the information session in Elbasan on 11 and 12 May, with representatives of the municipalities of Elbasan, Librazhd, Prenjas, Maliq, Kolonja, Belsh, Cërrik and Skrapar. The focus of this meeting was the presentation of the second call for grants, objectives and priorities of the call, the size of investment grants for municipalities, rules, eligibility criteria and evaluation of project proposals.
Participants were also introduced to the documents and the application process, including administrative, financial and technical supporting documents.
The information session was attended by the training “How to write a successful project proposal”, based on the project management cycle approach. This training served to assist the teams of municipalities engaged in drafting project proposals in the second call for grant applications of the project “EU for Municipalities”.
The training session helped the representatives of the municipalities to increase their capacity and knowledge in writing projects according to the rules and criteria of the European Union. This training cycle for each information session was organized by the EU for Municipalities together with the project team “Municipalities for Europe”.
The “EU for Municipalities” project is a new project funded by the European Union, which has the overall objective of helping the development potential of municipalities in Albania and contributing to improving the socio-economic and environmental conditions of local communities in Albania, through investment grants to municipalities.



