На первом этапе отбора поступило 59 заявок, из которых 51 прошла администартивную проверку.

Отборочный комитет рассмотрел концепции проектов на заседании 21.-22.4.

Для того, чтобы попасть на второй этап отбора следовало набрать минимум 12 баллов в разделе Релевантность (из 15) и общий балл 30 (из 50). 18 проектных заявок превысили этот порог. Часть проектов была признана хорошей с точки зрения заявочных туров по другим темам.

Полные пректные заявки надлежит представить в Руководящий орган до 15:00 17.6. Решение о финансировании будет принято в сентябре.

Проектные заявки предлогается подать по следующим концепциям:

Заявители и проекты:

• Friends of Kinerma Association: Better life for Karelian villages
  
• Joensuu Regional Development Company JOSEK Ltd: Cities by the water - new opportunities for business development
  
• Petrozavodsk State University: Complex development of regional cooperation in the field of open ICT innovations
  
• Creative Industries and Cultural Tourism Development Fund: Craft & Desing Business Incubator
  
• Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA): Cross-Border Innovation Paltform
  
• Univeristy of Oulu, NorTech: Green cities and settlements - Sustainable spatial development in remote border areas
  
• Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment for Lapland: Ground water suplly in Sortavala district
  
• MTT Agrifood Research Finland: Improved potato chain in the Republic of Karelia
  
• Autonomous non-profit organisation "Energy Efficiency Center": Improvement of the environment and living standards is the basis for modern rural development
  
• The Municipality of Suomussalmi: Impriving the gravelroad Kostomuksha-Kalevala
  
• City of Joensuu, Youth Department: IMPULS
  
• Universtiy of Eastern Finland: Learning together - fostering economic development of border areas
  
• Juminkeko Foundation: PoCoBus - The Possibilities of Cooperation, Business and Trade across the Border between enterprises
  
• ADC Ltd: Road Arkhangelsk - Karelia - Finland
  
• Iin Micropolis Oy: Service Center for Finnish and Russian companies starting product or IPR business in Russia and EU
  
• Municipality of Suomussalmi: Sheephusbandry in the Kalevala district
  
• Technoreactor Oy: Support to sustainable development of Sortavala town for the improvement of environmental situation
  
• North Karelia Municipal Education and Training Consortium: The qualified cross-border VET in support of sustaineble economic development