The final decisions were taken during two meetings of Steering Committee of the Programme. Our OMS (Online Monitoring System) facilitated the evaluation and online voting procedure. For the 7th Call of applications, the decision was for the approval of 12 new projects as well as the extension of 3 current ones. Furthermore, 10 new Expressions of Interest from the 6th Call were approved and will be welcome to submit their proposals through the OMS in 2019.  Earlier in the year, the OMS saw 17 submissions of Full Applications in the 5th Call, involving 200 partners. Finally, 9 projects have been approved by the Programme Steering Committee

allocating approximately € 17.5 million fo ERD and Norwegian funds. Also, 5 Expressions of Interests from the 6th Call were approved. The entire submission/evaluation/decision process was handled by our Online Monitoring System.  Three more calls for projects are scheduled for 2019. Congratulations to all new projects, we are looking forward to supporting the implementations of your plans! Apogee has been supporting the digital operations of the IIIB, IVB and VB North Sea Region Programmes since 2007. The Online Monitoring System (OMS), which was developed by Apogee, covers the vast majority of the Programme’s operations and activity, including application submission and evaluation, contracting, periodic reporting and day-to-day communication.