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Working Better Together in a Team Europe Approach

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Last Updated: 05 December 2025
A tool to help EU Delegations work better together with Member States as Team Europe and with like-minded partners and country stakeholders, through Team Europe Initiatives, joint programming and joint implementation.

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3. Eligibility of financial contributions

TEIs are arranged by pillars of action and will not have an overarching independent budget but are made up of different components that are each funded by one or more TE approach actors:

  • A financial contribution by a TE actor is any contribution for which a financial value can be estimated; this can include in-kind contributions as appropriate.
  • The contribution could be through any implementation modality, such as grant, loan, guarantee, blended finance and technical assistance.
  • It must come from the national budget or own balance sheet of that actor following a TE approach actor, e.g. if a Member State’s implementing agency is managing EU funds through delegated cooperation, this would not count as a financial contribution on the part of that agency. Co-funding or pooling resources is not required for Member States’ contributions to TEIs148.
  • TEI components can include already ongoing interventions (projects and programmes) as well as new ones created as a contribution to a TEI within the Joint Intervention Logic.
  • They can be counted as financial contributions to TEIs within the framework of this monitoring mechanism for disbursements starting from the year 2021.

148 This means that if a Member State is implementing a TEI-related project fully through delegated cooperation, this Member State’s financial contribution to the TEI amounts to 0. If, for instance, EUR 10 million are provided by the MS and EUR 90 million come from the EU as delegated cooperation, this Member State’s financial contribution to the TEI accounts for EUR 10 million. If it is the other way round, the Member State’s contribution amounts to EUR 90 million.