Once registered, the Local Government Grants Scheme allows you to submit individual applications or proposals.
What is ÖTR?
Once registered, the Local Government Grants Scheme allows you to submit individual applications or proposals.
Background:
The committees with authority over the funds have different methods for submitting grant applications and awarding grants. As a result, there are calls for proposals, individual applications in the form of a call for proposals, or sometimes applicants may apply to the committees with a few requests in a few lines (even verbal requests). Individual applications are not comparable, contain little information and do not meet the formal and substantive requirements. It seems clear that the different practices do not serve the requirements of transparency, predictability, comparability and equal opportunities. In addition, the submission of applications and individual applications is in the vast majority of cases done on paper, which is outdated in terms of the way it is submitted and not adapted to the national application systems, where applications are submitted simply and quickly via an internet interface. In many cases, the applicant organisation submits an application, an individual application, whose objective has already been achieved.
Objective:
Creating an IT system that brings organisations and applications together. The main purpose of the system is to register organisations, provide a single point of access to funding opportunities, enable organisations to apply for grants through a single interface and provide the municipality with an up-to-date record of grants.
Benefits:
· the transfer of all resources outside the general government is regulated
· the committees are free to decide whether to award grants by means of a call for proposals or on the basis of individual applications for grants
· the decision-maker receives detailed information for each aid application, allowing him/her to make a more informed decision than before
· reduced administrative burden for organisations, making the support system more transparent and predictable
· using electronic interfaces makes the process faster
· it is clear what the aid can be used for
· clear accounting arrangements
· the system provides public information on the organisations for all applicants
· an up-to-date, unified database of applicant organisations, the amount of aid they have received and the extent to which they have complied with their accounting obligations
