SOS Researchers - EU funding: Youth workers

11 June 2013

Partnerships within the Youth in Action programme

Partnerships

DEADLINE: 5 September

Within the “Youth in Action” programme, this call for proposals aims at supporting partnerships with regional or local public bodies or other stakeholders active in the youth sector at European level in order to develop over the long-term projects which combine various measures of the programme.

The specific objectives of such partnerships are to:

• encourage the involvement of public bodies at regional or local level or other stakeholders active in the youth sector in European youth and non-formal education activities

• support their capacity capacity-building as bodies active in the youth field providing non-formal education opportunities to young people and youth workers

• promote the development of sustainable networks, the exchange of best practices as well as the recognition of non-formal education.

Preference will be given to well-structured projects which are framed within a longer-term perspective and planned with a view to achieve a multiplying effect and a sustainable impact. The projects will support the development of a programme including one activity or combining several activities taking inspiration from the ‘Youth in Action’ programme.

The following activities are eligible under this call:

Trans-national Youth Exchanges
National or Trans-national Youth Initiatives
European Voluntary Service
Training and Networking

06 June 2013

Actions for Youth Workers

Support to Youth Workers' Mobility

DEADLINE: 10 September 2013

The aim of this call is:

to support youth workers’ mobility and exchanges with a view to promoting the acquisition of new skills and competences in order to enrich their profile as professionals in the youth field.
to strengthen the capacities of the structures involved in the project, which will benefit from the experience and new perspective brought by a youth worker from a different background.

Preference will be given to those projects which best reflect following priorities:

permanent priorities of the ‘Youth in Action’ programme: participation of young people, cultural diversity, European citizenship, EN C 150/20 Official Journal of the European Union 29.5.2013 inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities;
annual priorities of the ‘Youth in Action’ programme: awareness-raising of the rights linked to the EU citizenship, inclusive growth, creativity, entrepreneurship and employability, healthy behaviours.

Who can apply? NGOs, bodies active at European level in the field of youth, public bodies at regional or local level.