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PEACEPLUS is a new funding programme designed to support peace and prosperity across Northern Ireland and the border counties of Ireland. PEACEPLUS is the successor programme to both PEACE IV and INTERREG VA.
This call aims to ensure equal access to health care and fostering resilience of health systems.
Collaborative Health and Social Care is an area in which collaborative cross-border approaches are proven to deliver considerable benefits to the citizen and the Programme area. Cross-border co-operation will contribute towards the more efficient delivery of health and social care services across the Programme area. This will be achieved through building upon existing collaborative relationships and services on a cross-border basis, which will improve the health and wellbeing of people living in the programme area by enabling them to access quality health and social care services in the most appropriate setting to their needs.
Research undertaken has highlighted a need to support specific mental health interventions, especially within those areas where there are benefits to collaborative, cross-border management approaches. In recognition of the growing problem of addiction across the Programme area, particularly in the context of the trauma of the troubles, addiction services have been identified as a suitable area for support. This area lends itself to gender specific, whole family, community based approaches, which will contribute to many of our most vulnerable citizens leading healthier and more hopeful lives.
This objective will ensure equal access to health care and fostering resilience of health systems.
It will result in an increase in the number of 'episodes of care' delivered on a cross-border basis. This will support positive health and wellbeing and the prevention of ill-health, through an integrated approach designed to reduce health inequalities within the Programme Area.
The development and delivery of new addiction treatment facilities and programmes designed to address the trauma of the Troubles on the health and mental wellbeing of citizens and communities, by adopting a strengths-based, cross-community and cross-border mental and emotional resilience and recovery model.
Read more details in the call document.
The programme area for the PEACEPLUS Programme is:
This is the core programme area. The programme, however, has flexible geography beyond its administrative borders called a functional area. This allows for organisations and institutions not based in the core programme area to get involved in projects by linking with partners within the core area. The benefits of such collaborations must be significant for the core programme area.
Partnerships must be cross-border in nature, encompassing a partner or partners from both Northern Ireland and Ireland. Additional partners from outside the core programme area may also be eligible, further detail on this can be found in the Programme Manual.
Partnerships must ensure delivery to beneficiaries within both Northern Ireland and the border counties of Ireland and are expected to demonstrate full achievability of the output and result targets for which they apply
The total value of €17million is available under this call. This consists of €13.6 million ERDF and UK ERDF equivalent funding and €3.4 million governmental match.
Grants are available to cover 100% of the eligible costs of the project. Projects/Partners may wish to bring additional match funding into the project, applicants should seek further advice from SEUPB on this before the call closes
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