The public invitation to submit applications for a subsidy from the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for the promotion of children's and youth health for 2015 (hereinafter referred to as "the public call') for the implementation of the National Children's Care and Grow-up Programme 2008 (hereinafter referred to as "the National Programme') shall be published in accordance with Article 5 (8) (a). (c) Act No 525/2010 Coll. on granting subsidies within the scope of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, as amended by Act No 72/2015 Z. z. z.
1. The deadline for submitting a subsidy application is 31 August 2015.
2. Legislation governing the granting of subsidies
Act No 525/2010 Coll. on the granting of subsidies within the scope of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, as amended (hereinafter referred to as "the subsidy law'). Law
No 523/2004 Coll. on the Financial Regulation of the General Government and amending certain laws as amended (hereinafter referred to as the Financial Regulation) Act No 25/2006 Coll. on Public Procurement and on the Amendment of Certain Laws (hereinafter referred to as the Public Procurement Act)
3. Project core objective, evaluation criteria
The aim of the public call is to support programmes, initiatives and activities aimed at the health of children and young people implemented in the context of the implementation of the tasks of the National Children's Care Programme and the Slovak Republic's 2008 period of maturity ' 2015.
(a) The priority areas for promoting child and youth health for 2015 are:
Increased detection of psychomotor development disorders
Support for activities focused on detailed screening investigations aimed at differentiation of the physiological and risk development of the psychomotor of the child
from 0 to 3 years of age,
validation of psychometric properties of a screening tool with standards appropriate for paediatric practice,
the development of a standardised screening procedure for psychomotor development of a child aged 0 to 3 years.
Increasing the awareness of the professional and lay public about promoting breastfeeding and applying the principles of Mother and Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in institutional health care
training of health professionals (in particular doctors with a professional degree of neonatologist, pediatrician, gynecologist and obstetrician, nurses and midwives)
applying the principles of Mother and Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and promoting breastfeeding, carried out by healthcare professionals with a valid international certificate of lactation consultants International Board Certified Application Consultant (hereinafter referred to as "IBCLC') who are included in the CERRPs Continuing Education Recognition Points (hereinafter referred to as "CERPs') and whose educational activities are guaranteed by the Slovak Paediatric Society,
support for practical training in breastfeeding techniques carried out by health professionals with a valid IBCLC certificate and CERRPs;
support for the promotion of breastfeeding at professional events, in professional journals and in the website.
Improving the material and technical provision of health care centres for heavy monotraums and polytraums
support for diagnostic examinations and therapeutic procedures in children with severe monotraum and polytraum.
(b) The criteria for evaluation of the grant application are set out in the Annex to the Statute of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for evaluation of the grant application (hereinafter referred to as "the Statute') annexed to this public call. The value of the criteria is expressed by a numerical margin (Annex to the Statute).
4. E-mail form
The subsidy application is submitted in writing pursuant to Paragraph 4 (6) of the subsidy law; the application form for subsidy in electronic form is set out in Annexes 2 to 4 to this Communication. Annexes to the application by § (4) 7 the subsidy act must be submitted pursuant to Article 5 (3) of the subsidy act in the form of an original or an officially certified copy not more than three months old on the date of submission of the subsidy application.
5. Conditions for granting the subsidy
The subsidy may be granted to the applicant upon submission of an application for a subsidy and supporting documents, subject to the conditions of the subsidy law:
- description of the project for which the subsidy is requested,
- the structured budget of the project;
- the document establishing or setting up the applicant where the applicant is a legal person,
- an extract from the commercial register or similar register, in the case of a legal person entered in such a register, not more than three months old on the date of submission of the application for a subsidy,
- an extract from the trade register or similar register, in the case of an applicant for whom the self-employed person is registered in the trade register or in a similar register certifying an authorisation to pursue an activity,
- an extract from the criminal record, not more than three months old, if the applicant is a natural person,
- evidence that the project is financed from other sources pursuant to paragraph 2;
and by § 8a (4) the Financial Regulation Act:
(h) has settled financial relations with the national budget - a solemn statement by the applicant that he has settled financial relations with the national budget and confirmation of the local
the tax administrator, not more than three months old, that the applicant does not have tax arrears where the condition under point (4) is met. (a) the Financial Regulation Act,
- is not subject to insolvency proceedings, is not in bankruptcy, is in restructuring and has not been refused an application for bankruptcy due to a lack of assets,
- the enforcement of the decision is not directed against it - a solemn statement by the applicant that the enforcement of the decision is not directed against it by a person not more than three months old at the date of submission of the application for a subsidy;
- has not infringed, in the previous three years, the prohibition of illegal employment pursuant to a specific regulation, by confirming the labour inspectorate concerned, not more than three months old, on the date of submission of the application for a subsidy;
- does not have registered arrears for health insurance, social insurance
and contributions to old-age pension savings - by confirming the Social Insurance Institution and each health insurance undertaking, not to older than three months.
The subsidy cannot be granted to the applicant for:
- reimbursement of applicants' commitments from previous financial years,
- reimbursement of expenditure effected in previous financial years,
- payment of salaries, salaries, service income and their compensation and other personal allowances; this is not the case if the applicant is the Slovak Red Cross (up to 50% of the total amount of the subsidy).
6. Financial resources available for 2015 is EUR 100 000.00.
7. Maximum and minimum amount of one subsidy requested
The maximum amount is 35 000.00 Euro.
The minimum amount is EUR 7 000.00.
8. How to remedy formal deficiencies in applications for subsidies
Any application for a subsidy must be made in accordance with the subsidy law.
Applications for subsidies made on a form other than the form prescribed or, where appropriate, incomplete applications shall be considered not to comply with the formal evaluation criteria.
The applicant will be informed of this fact by e-mail and will be invited to receive a revised or supplemented application for a subsidy by 3 calendar days, from the date of delivery of the e-mail. If the applicant fails to deliver the revised subsidy application within the prescribed time limit or does not complete the missing documents in the grant application within the set time limit, the application for subsidy shall be rejected from the further evaluation, which shall be notified in writing to the applicant within 10 calendar days of the date of the decision to withdraw.
Formal deficiencies that can be addressed and do not alter the substance of the subsidy application will be remedied by the applicant in cooperation with the Ministry of Health.
9. Method of submission of aid applications
The applicant shall submit the complete documentation in a written version, in Slovak
1 times the original of the subsidy application, signed by the applicant's statutory body, together with the mandatory annexes and 1 times the copy of the subsidy application without the applicant's identification (+ backup on the CD), scan or PDF format are not allowed. The original, including annexes, as well as a copy of the subsidy application without annexes, shall be bound individually. The pages must be numbered.
A subsidy application, together with the annexes prescribed, shall be submitted by post, in person or by courier to the Ministry of Health no later than the deadline for submission of the subsidy applications referred to in point 1 of this public invitation; if the grant application is submitted to the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, Limbová ul. No. 2, 837 52 Bratislava, ground floor, no. door 5.
Envelopes/packages delivered by post or registered by the mail of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Ministry of Health') after the deadline will not be evaluated at all and will be returned to the organisation that sent the subsidy request.
An application for a subsidy, including its annexes, must be lodged together in one sealed package which shall be visibly and clearly marked with the words:
–Request to grant a subsidy - Promotion of children's and young people's health 2015 - NOT TO FOLLOW-UP
and to:
Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic
Health Section
Health Care Department
Limba 2
837 52 Bratislava
10. Date of the evaluation procedure
The deadline for evaluating applications for grants shall be 15 October 2015 at the latest.
11. Composition of the Commission
The selection and evaluation body is the Commission established by the Ministry of Health, the composition and activities of which are governed by the Statute published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 29 June 2012, the amount of 17-19, which is annexed to No. 1 of this public call and Appendix No. 1/2015 to the Statute of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 19 June 2015, the amount of 4-5, which is annexed to No. 1A of this public call.
12. List of approved aid applications
The list of approved subsidy applications will be published after their approval by the Minister for Health.
13. List of applications rejected and reason for rejection
14. Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions will be published on the website of the Ministry of Health.
15. Proposal for a subsidy contract
The draft subsidy contract is published in Annex 5 to this invitation to tender.