Climate adaptation cooperation grant

• The applicant must be the work-region’s penvoerder: a participating legal person appointed to submit the application. This entry covers a public body leading non-economic public-sector cooperation. Public status alone does not determine whether an activity falls under state-aid rules.
• The eligible work-regions are Goeree-Overflakkee, Drechtsteden, Hoeksche Waard, Holland Rijnland, Midden Holland, Vijfheerenlanden, BAR, Delfland, Rotterdam and Voorne-Putten. All participants must consent to the activity through a cooperation declaration. The activity must support cooperation around shared products.
• For an application by a partnership without legal personality, every participant must sign an agreement naming the lead applicant, authorising it to receive payment, approving the activity and allocating responsibilities, powers and financial obligations. Any wrongly paid amount can be recovered from each participant for the share it received.
• The activity must target Zuid-Holland, benefit its residents or otherwise serve the province’s interests. Apply before the activity starts.
• The activity cannot form part of a programme already financially supported by the province. You cannot have requested or received another provincial grant for the same activity, and neither the applicant nor a participant may already have received a grant for that activity under this or another scheme. Statutory or regular duties and work blocked by legal or practical obstacles are excluded.
• Applications solely for preparing a grant application, an accountant’s statement or establishing a legal person are refused. Funding must be available and the work must contribute sufficiently to the grant’s purpose. Activities contrary to law, public interest or public order are excluded; the general rules also exclude incompatible aid established by the European Commission and applicants subject to an outstanding Commission recovery order.

Status

zamyka się 31 gru 2026

Otwiera się

1 sty 2026

Zamyka się

31 gru 2026

Warunki naboru

• Apply before starting. Funding follows complete-application order, subject to the available budget.

Apply to Provincie Zuid-Holland through its organisation application form, using eHerkenning to log in. Submit a project plan and cost estimate. Include the work-region’s cooperation declaration and the signed cooperation agreement where applicable; the form may also ask for a recent annual account or financial report, an accountant’s statement if available and financial authorisation.

The 2026 intake is open from 1 January to 31 December. Complete applications are considered in order of receipt; an incomplete application takes the date it becomes complete. If complete applications received on the same day would exceed the budget, their order is decided by lottery.

Start within three months of the grant award unless the decision sets another period, and complete the activity within twelve months of the award. Carry out the approved application and attachments. The province can amend obligations on request by a formal decision.

For this small grant, the province can determine the final grant directly or do so later without an application. Direct determination pays the entire amount at once; otherwise advance amounts and timing follow the rules or award decision. For later determination, provide an own declaration and activity report if requested and show that the obligations were met. If a final-determination application is required, supply the required substantive and brief financial reports and file within 26 weeks of the required completion date, or actual completion if earlier. The province can set a different reporting and final-determination procedure for other public authorities.

Where the grant is awarded before final determination, immediately notify the province in writing if you cannot complete the activity or meet the obligations fully or on time, if decisions are taken or procedures begin to terminate the activity or dissolve the recipient, or if statutes change the body’s form, purpose or board representation. After direct final determination, that notification duty does not apply and the province cannot ask for later accountability reports; the statutory grounds for changing or withdrawing a final determination can still lead to recovery.

Maintain subsidised activities for five years after final determination unless the province grants an exemption. If subsidised assets arise, do not sell, rent, mortgage, otherwise encumber or remove them from their approved purpose within five years of their creation without a written exemption. If the subsidy creates capital, compensation is owed when assets used or intended for the activity are sold, encumbered or repurposed, when compensation is received for their loss or damage, when the activity ends wholly or partly, when the grant award or final determination is withdrawn or the subsidy ends, or when the recipient legal person is dissolved. The payment is capped at the province’s share of the capital created. It must be determined within one year after the province knew or could have known of the trigger, and in any event within five years of notification of the last final-determination decision. Assets are valued at current market value, property by its WOZ value; loss or damage uses compensation received plus residual value.

If an administration duty is imposed, keep income and expenditure traceable and retain the administration for at least five years after final determination unless the decision says otherwise. Cooperate with provincial controls and provide access to records and information needed to assess lawful and effective use.