Eu funds: Support to national activities aiming at combating discrimination and promoting equality

European programme: Progress - antidiscrimantion and diversity

Deadline of the call for proposal: 28 June 2012

The objectives of this call are to support national authorities in charge of equality and nondiscrimination of PROGRESS participating countries in:

a) Developing their national policy to combat discrimination and promote equality beyond legislation; b) Fostering the dissemination of information on EU and national policy and legislation in the non discrimination field;

c) Identifying best practices which could be transferable to other participating countries

Europeaid Programme

European funding: civil society facility programme

Deadline: 29th June 2012

The global objectives of this Call for Proposals is:

• A more dynamic civil society actively participating in public debate on democracy, human rights, social inclusion and the rule of law and with capacity to influence policy and decision making processes

The specific objectives of this Call for Proposals are:

European grant funds: IPA Europeaid

EuropeAid: IPA Information and Communication Programme 2011

Deadline: 8th May 2012

This Call for Proposals has three distinct priorities. Therefore, it is divided in three lots and the funding is broken down by lot:

· LOT 1: actions aiming at informing the general public about the EU, its policies and the benefits of EU membership (mainly through public activities and with the help of media);

· LOT 2: initiatives targeting at bringing the EU closer to Croatian youth, most notably the eurosceptics among them (age group from 16 to 26, but not exclusively);

· LOT 3: proposals focusing on informing and educating various specific segments of the public on the possibilities of EU funds.

European funds in the Justice sector

European funding: Training of national judges in EU Competition Law and judicial co-operation between national judges

Deadline: 17th April 2012

The objective of this call for proposal is to co-finance projects aimed at promoting judicial cooperation between, and the training of, national judges in the context of the enforcement of the European competition rules.

Projects with this objective may consist of :

- training activities in the form of conferences, seminars, colloquia, meetings and symposia on EU competition law for national judges as well as short- or long-term training courses in EU competition law under study programs for national judges;

European fundings: Civil Justice

Deadline: 3rd April 2012

Types of activities

Projects may consist of :

- studies;

- research;

- meetings and seminars;

- exchanges between judicial authorities and judicial cooperation networks;

- training;

- dissemination of information on access to justice;

- design, development and implementation of innovative IT solutions;

- exchange of good practice, or - a combination of these activities.

European funds for drug prevention

Europen grant funds for drug prevention and information

Call deadline: 17th April 2012

Areas of intervention:

Overall priority will be given to large-scale projects built on a wide partnership involving organisations from a significant number of EU Member States/eligible EFTA States and offering a true European scope and relevance. Projects must be transnational projects, studies and research, exchange of best practice, training, study visits, staff exchanges, seminars, meetings, conferences or a combination of these.

Specific attention will be given to new types of addictions with regard to use of new psychoactive substances. Proposals must demonstrate their innovation and show that there is no duplication with existing activities, including those foreseen by the EMCDDA – European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction .

European funds in the health sector

European Health programme

Deadline: 9th March 2012

Main areas of intervention:

1. Improve citizens' health security

1.1 Protect citizens against health threats

1.1.1 Response coordination in the face of chemical events

1.1.2 The impact on air transport of health threats due to biological, chemical and radiological agents

2. Promote Health

2.1 Increasing healthy life years and promoting healthy ageing

2.1.1 Support to the European Innovation Partnership on active and healthy ageing

2.2 Addressing health determinants to promote and improve physical and mental health and taking action on key factors such as nutrition and physical activity, and on addiction-related determinants such as tobacco and alcohol

2.2.1 Local community including school based initiatives to prevent overweight and obesity among children and adolescents

2.2.2 Good practice and working methods to support healthy choices and enhance life skills to prevent alcohol-related harm integrated into regular youth activities or through peer support

Eu funds for cooperation in the Mediterranean sea basin

Eu funds for cooperation in the Mediterranean sea basin

DEADLINE: 29th February 2012 for Concept notes

PRIORITIES AND MEASURES:

1. Promotion of socioeconomic development and enhancement of territories

1.1 Support to innovation and research in the process of local development of the Mediterranean Sea Basin countries

1.2 Strengthening economic clusters creating synergies among potentials of the Mediterranean Sea Basin countries

1.3 Strengthening the national strategies of territorial planning by integrating the different levels, and promotion of balanced and sustainable socioeconomic development

2. Promotion of environmental sustainability at the basin level

2.1 Prevention and reduction of risk factors for the environment and enhancement of natural common heritage

European financial support for long term professional career integration projects

Deadlines:6th March 2012 AND 18th September 2012

This action consists of financial support for long term professional career integration projects in a host organisation of a Member State or associated country.

The financial support aims to provide the researcher with the best possible conditions for establishing herself/himself in a long term research career. For selected projects, a grant agreement is issued with the integration host organisation, which will commit itself to ensure an effective and lasting professional integration of the researcher for a period of at least the same duration as the project.

The integration host organisation must provide the researcher with an employment contract with a remuneration package of at least the same level to that offered to equivalently qualified researchers at the same institution. Evidence that the researcher will be integrated in the host organisation on this basis for a longer term will be positively taken into account during evaluation. Projects will be selected on the basis of a proposal submitted by an eligible researcher in liaison with a host organisation.

OBJECTIVES:

New European programme for SMEs (2014/2020)

The Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, COSME will focus on financial instruments and support to the internationalisation of enterprises.

The Programme has the following general objectives:

- Improve access to finance for SMEs in the form of equity and debt: First, an equity facility for growth-phase investment will provide SMEs with commercially-oriented reimbursable equity financing primarily in the form of venture capital through financial intermediaries. Second, a loan facility will provide SMEs with direct or other risk-sharing arrangements with financial intermediaries to cover loans.

European funds for cooperation

EUROPEAN CROSS-BORDER PROGRAMME CROATIA - MONTENEGRO

Deadline: 5th March 2012

Priority: ‘Creation of favourable environmental and socio-economic conditions in the programming area by improvement of the cooperation in the jointly selected sectors and good neighbourly relations in the eligible area’

Measure 1.1: Joint actions for environment, nature and cultural heritage protection

Measure 1.2: Joint tourism and cultural space

Measure 1.3: Small cross-border community development projects

Objectives:

The overall Priority Objective of the CB Programme HR-MNE is therefore to improve quality of life in the cross-border area between Croatia and Montenegro.

European funds for violence prevention

European funds for Prevention of violence against children, young people and women and protection of victims and groups at risk

Deadline: 29th March 2012  

The projects under this call for proposals shall focus on the following priorities:

• Rights of victims of violence
• Violence linked to harmful practices
• Children as victims and perpetrators of violence
• Perpetrator programmes and interventions
• Training programmes
• Empowerment work at grass-roots level
• Media violence, particularly violence linked to new technology and social networking tools

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EU contribution within the "Fundamental Rights and Citizenship” programme

European grant funds for fundamental rights of people

Deadline: 13th March 2012

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

1. Informing on where the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights applies and where to turn to if fundamental rights are violated

2. Promoting the Rights of the Child

3. Combating racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism

4. Fighting Homophobia

5. Training and networking between legal professions and legal practitioners

CITIZENSHIP

Europeand funds for for sustainable employment

European funds to increase opportunities for sustainable employment of disadvantaged groups Deadline: 23rd January 2012 for concept notes

The global objective of this Call for Proposals is to increase opportunities for sustainable employment of disadvantaged groups.

The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is to support disadvantaged groups in their integration into the labour market by increasing their employability.

PRIORITY ISSUES

The priorities of the Grant programme will be as follows:

• To enhance the employability of disadvantaged groups in order to integrate them into labour market;

• To raise the awareness of general public regarding employment of disadvantaged groups and employers’ awareness on advantages in employing disadvantaged groups in order to achieve their equal participation in the labour market.

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New european 2014-2020 programme for culture

Creative Europe is the new EU programme dedicated to the cultural and creative sectors, proposed by the European Commission on 23 November 2011 that will run from 2014 to 2020. It would support tens of thousands of artists, cultural professionals and cultural organisations in the performing arts, fine arts, publishing, film, TV, music, interdisciplinary arts, heritage, and the video games industry, allowing them to operate across Europe, to reach new audiences and to develop the skills that are needed in the digital age. By helping European cultural works to reach new audiences in other countries, the new programme will also contribute to safeguarding and promoting Europe's cultural and linguistic diversity.
What will the programme achieve?

European funds for Culture:international cooperation

European grants: Cooperation projects with South Africa
Deadline: 3rd May 2012

The aim is to help organisations, such as theatres, museums, professional associations, research centres, universities, cultural institutes and public authorities from different countries participating in the Programme to cooperate so that different sectors can work together and extend their cultural and artistic reach across borders

Projects must involve cultural cooperation with at least one partner from Republic of South Africa

Cultural organisations are given support for projects to work together across borders and to create and implement cultural and artistic activities.

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Funds for EU transnational cooperation projects

European Alpine Space programme

Deadline: 20th January 2012

The Alpine Space Programme is the EU transnational co-operation programme for the Alps; it connects 33 regions from seven Alpine countries with the aim to increase competitiveness and attractiveness of the cooperation area by developing joint actions in fields where transnational cooperation is required for sustainable solutions.

 Priority 1 - Competitiveness and Attractiveness

• Coping with the effects of Demographic Change

European funds for promoting gender equality

European grant funds: Protection and promotion of women’s rights, and women’s social and economic empowerment

Deadline: 26th January 2012

 

Specific objectives:

To develop and strengthen sustainable initiatives at local and national level promoting:

• women’s equal access to and control of economic resources;
• equal access to existing and/or new services that are instrumental to increasing women’s social and
• economic protection and wellbeing and their participation in economic growth;
• dissemination of relevant good practice.

For the purpose of sustainability, proposals must include at least two out of the following three themes:

European grant funds for education

European call for proposal: Tempus IV

Reform of higher education through international university cooperation
Deadline: 23rd February 2012

The purpose of this call for proposals is to promote multilateral cooperation among higher education institutions, authorities and organisations from EU Member States and partner countries with the focus on the reform and modernisation of higher education.

Eligible actions:

Europeand funds for social experimentations

Eu grant funds for Social experimentions
Deadline: 15th December 2011

The present call focuses on the methodological and governance aspects of the project in the different phases of policy reforms. In this context, particular attention should be given to the design and evaluation of the projects and on mutual learning from the experimentations. This approach is consistent with the emphasis on good governance of the European Union and the increased need to ensure quality of public spending while responding to citizens' needs and expectations.

Selected projects have to contribute to developing and testing socially innovative approaches to policy priorities in the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Open Method of Coordination on social protection and social inclusion.

The relevant projects should address issues such as: