Description
The EEA Grants and Norway Grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to reducing economic and social disparities and to strengthening bilateral relations with 16 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics.
The EEA Grants are jointly financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, who contribute according to their size and economic wealth. Of the €993 million set aside for the 2009-14 period, Norway provides 95.8%, Iceland 3.0% and Liechtenstein 1.2%.
In the funding period 2009-2014, the EEA Grants support these programme areas:
- Environmental protection and management
- Integrated marine and inland water management
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Environmental monitoring and integrated planning and control
- Reduction of hazardous substances
- Environmental and climate change-related research and technology
- Climate change and renewable energy
- Energy efficiency
- Renewable energy
- Adaptation to climate change
- Civil society
- NGO programmes
- Human and social development
- Children and youth at risk
- Local and regional initiatives to reduce national inequalities and to promote social inclusion
- Public health initiatives
- Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting work-life balance
- Institutional framework in the asylum and migration sector
- Protecting cultural heritage
- Conservation and revitalisation of cultural and natural heritage
- Promotion of diversity in culture and arts within European cultural heritage
- Research and scholarship
- Research within priority sectors
- Scholarship