Apply for funding

National sporting associations (ASNs) will need to pre-register for their 2010 funding applications by completing an on-line registration form. The completion of this on-line form will help to quicken the process once funding applications have been opened.

To complete an on-line registration form, click here.

Once funding applications have opened, ASNs will be able to submit their funding applications via a secure site which will be accessible once the ASN’s registration details have been approved. Funding applications will open on Monday 30 August and close on Friday 10 September 2010.

Funding criteria

ASNs can apply for funding in August/September each year. The activity relating to an application will have to meet a range of criteria, and in particular will need to align, or be endeavouring to align, to the FIA Institute best practice frameworks to be considered for support.

For funding criteria for the Officials Safety Training Programme, click here.
For funding criteria for the Young Driver Safety Programme, click here.
For funding criteria for the Facility Improvement Programme, click here.

Funding policy changes

For applications submitted from 2010 onwards, for countries classified by the World Bank as having middle or low income per capita, funding relief will be provided by way of a reduction in the percentage contribution required by an ASN for a given project. This policy will apply to the Officials Safety Training Programme and the Young Driver Safety Programme only. Specifically, for ASNs in countries classified as having high income, the existing 50% contribution will be required; for ASNs in countries classified as having upper and lower middle income, the ASN will be required to make a 40% contribution to a project; and for ASNs in countries classified as having low income, the ASN will be required to make a 30% contribution to a project.

For a summary on the World Bank classification, click here.

Other policy changes relate to capping the number of applications and cumulative funding per ASN per period. For applications submitted from 2010 onwards, the number of applications which can be submitted and approved for an ASN will be capped at no more than three (3) per funding period. Furthermore, for the Facility Improvement Programme, an ASN will be capped at one (1) application. For the Officials Safety Training Programme and the Young Driver Safety Programme, these will be capped at no more than two (2) for each programme, whilst not exceeding the overall cap of three (3). In conjunction with the application cap, the cumulative grant total for an ASN will not be able to exceed €425,000 per funding period. This figure represents the hypothetical total of the grants payable if the maximum amount is paid for each of the three safety programmes under the existing funding criteria.

Funding model guidelines

A funding model has been developed to facilitate equitable distributions across programmes and geographical areas – the guidelines are as follows:

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