Grant Fund in the educational sector

European grant fund for: EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH A MIGRANT BACKGROUND

Deadline: 14th October 2011

BENEFICIARIES:

This call for proposals is open to:

ministries of education,

other public bodies,

research centres and universities,

foundations,

associations.

Applications must be submitted by a legal person

Applications from legal entities established in one of the following countries are eligible:

EU Member States,

Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland,Turkey, Croatia

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

It should address the issues on the education of children from a migrant background and stimulate high-level cooperation between Member State policy makers responsible for social inclusion through education, including cooperation between authorities in the countries of origin and host countries. The network should actively stimulate transnational cooperation  primarily at governmental level, but also at the level of experts and practitioners.

Purpose

The purpose of this call is to strengthen cross-European collaboration between high level decision makers, academics and practitioners for raising the educational attainment of children and young people from a migrant background.

The call aims to support the establishment of a European network to analyse, develop and exchange policy and practice in the area.

European funds for the audiovisual sector

 European grants for TRAINING, MARKET ACCESS, DISTRIBUTION AND CIRCULATION OF AUDIOVISUAL WORKS

Deadline: 23rd September 2011

ACTIVITIES:

·         Support for training: this action aims at strengthening the skills of European and third- country professionals:

o        Option 1 supports the inclusion of students/professionals and teachers from non-EU countries in initial or continuous training schemes supported by the MEDIA 2007

o        Option 2 supports the creation of a continuous training scheme specific to MEDIA Mundus.

·         Support for market access: this action supports projects to promote access to international markets for audiovisual works. These projects concern the development and/or pre-production phases (for example international co-production markets) and activities downstream (events facilitating inter­national sales of the works).

·         Support for distribution and circulation: this action aims at encouraging distribution, promotion, screening and diffusion of European works in third-country markets and of audiovisual works from third countries in Europe under optimum conditions.

·         Cross-over activities: this action aims at supporting projects of a cross-cutting nature, i.e. touching upon several priorities of the programme, e.g. trainings with subsequent pitching events at co- production meetings.

BENEFICIARIES:

The coordinator of the group must have its registered office in a Member State of the European.

The group must include at least one co-beneficiary linked to the audiovisual sector which has its registered office in a non-EU country other than Croatia and Switzerland

European Grants for transnational cooperation

European funding: TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS WITHIN THE CENTRAL EUROPE

DEADLINE: 14th October 2011.

BENEFICIARIES:

Partnerships consisting of public and private representatives of at least three member states have the possibility to submit their project proposals with the aim to improve quality of life of Central European citizens.
List of the eligible countries/regions

ACTIVITIES:

Projects partners are invited to submit their projects within one of the four project priorities:

• innovation,

• accessibility,

• environment

• competiveness of cities and regions

Areas of Intervention.

• Fostering knowledge development

• Promoting information and communication technology

• Supporting environmentally friendly technologies and activities

• Developing polycentric settlement structures and territorial cooperation.

• Capitalising on Cultural Resources