The Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) is an instrument supporting projects and programmes focused on the transfer of know-how and best practices from EU to non-EU CEI Member States. By co‐financing capacity building and technical assistance projects, the KEP offers grants to institutions willing to share their experience with their partners in the non‐EU CEI Member States, thus helping non-members to advance on their path towards EU standards and policies. The KEP operates through annual calls for proposals with funding made available by Italy though the CEI Fund at the EBRD.

Objectives

• Strengthen economic and social advancement of the non-EU CEI Member States.
• Help the recent EU members in their transformation from recipients to donors (emerging donors) of development assistance.
• Promote principles of foreign development aid and support international collaboration among institutions in CEI member countries.

Call for Proposals - CLOSED 

• Call Documentation and Application Package available HERE.
• Tentative awarding of grants: End of December 2020

• For further information: kep@cei.int

COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals: selected projects

The following 8 projects approved in the framework of the COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals are covered by this Programme.                         

Country: Italy Organiser: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) Title of the Activity: Distance Learning on epidemic and pandemic outbreaks in Western Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia. Sector: Health CEI contribution: 32.000,00 €

Country: Italy Organiser: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) Title of the Activity: Distance Learning on epidemic and pandemic outbreaks in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. Sector: Health CEI contribution: 23.000,00 €

Country: Italy Organiser: INFORMEST CONSULTING SRL Title of the Activity: Portal implementation for sharing information about PPE manufacturers and telemedicine providers at benefit of local institutions in non-EU CEI Member States who deals procurement for hospitals, and Transfer of best practice and tools for fighting Covid19 sanitary emergency. Sector: Health CEI contribution: 39.000,00 €

Country: Italy Organiser: Lepida SCPA Title of the Activity: Interactive webinars to accelerate the shift to digital innovation in Albanian health (WebinHealth). Sector: Health CEI contribution: 39.800,00 €

Country: Italy Organiser: SOS Children’s Villages Italy and Serbia Title of the Activity: SOS Covid Emergency – protecting mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of adults and minors during social distancing in Italy and Serbia. Sector: Health CEI contribution: 39.000,00 €

Organiser: Regional Organisation: South-eastern Europe Health Network Secretariat (SEEHN Secretariat) Title of the Activity: Strengthening capacities of nurses - front line healthcare workers during the COVID-19 response; Strong nurses for strong health systems and a healthier world. Sector: Health CEI contribution: 39.850,00 €

Country: Romania Organiser: Association Caritas Alba Iulia - Medical and Social Assistance Caritas Alba Iulia Title of the Activity: Hospital at home in the field of chronic wound management during the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania and Moldova. Sector: Health CEI contribution: 39.000,00 €

Country: Serbia Organiser: University of Kragujevac (UNIKG), Serbia; Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka (RITEH), Croatia; Clinical Hospital Centre (KBCRI), Croatia. Title of the Activity: Use of Regressive Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Methods in Modelling of COVID-19 spread (COVIDAi). Sector: Health CEI contribution: 38.000,00 €