European programme "Fundamental Rights and Citizenship"

Call for proposals for action grants: support to transnational projects

Call deadline: 12 March 2014

The call is targeted at European Union citizens or third countries nationals legally residing within the European Union territory and civil society associations, among other groups active in promoting the objectives of the programme. The beneficiaries of the call could be institutions and public or private organisations, universities, research institutes, non- governmental organisations, national, regional and local authorities, international organisations and other non-profit organisations established in the European Union.

The proposals under this call shall focus on the following priorities:
• Rights of the child

• Information on where the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights applies and where to turn to if fundamental rights are violated

• Combating different forms and manifestations of racism and xenophobia

• Fighting homophobia: Enhanced/improved understanding and tolerance

• Training and networking between legal professions and legal practitioners

• Awareness-raising about Union citizenship and the rights attached to it and identification of obstacles to their effective exercise

• Awareness-raising and information about the EU rules on free movement, in particular Directive 2004/38/EC

• Facilitation of the sharing of knowledge and exchange of best practices on acquisition and loss of Union citizenship

• Address the gender imbalance in participation in the European Parliament elections

• Data protection and privacy rights

All proposals must demonstrate that they will generate an added value at EU level as opposed to national or regional level.

Projects should have an initial duration not exceeding 24 months.

Budget: EUR 10 900 000.
The grant cannot constitute more than 80% of overall eligible project costs

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Creative Europe Programme - Call for proposal

Organisation and implementation of an annual European Union Prize for rock, pop and dance music: The European Border Breakers' Awards

Deadline 31 January 2014

The purpose of this call for proposals is to select an organisation/consortium capable of organising the European Border Breakers' Awards (EBBA) for the European Commission for the period 2014-2018 (as of the 2015 edition with preparatory work in 2014). The work entails the organisation of procedures for the selection of the award winners, the organisation of the award ceremony and the promotion of the awards and their winners. The successful applicant will be invited to sign a framework partnership agreement for a maximum period of four years

The EBBA awards aim to recognize and reward the success of emerging talents in the pop, rock and dance music, who manage to achieve success with their first international release in Europe beyond their home country. 

The objectives of the EBBA awards are:

• further increase the visibility and cross-border success of the winners,

• inspire other emerging artists so that they can achieve international success, as well as

• raise broader awareness in the music industry and among the broader public of the large amount of high quality musical talent in Europe that deserves to be better known and promoted both across the continent and beyond

Budget for the co-financing of this action is estimated at € 400.000. This will cover the work plan for the 2015 edition of the prize.

The call is open to public or private organisations whose chief activity lies in the field of rock, pop and dance music and which have at least five years proven experience in organising activities and events at a European level in this field.

Organisations have to be established in the 28 EU Member States or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Montenegro, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Syria and Israel.

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Delivering on skills for growth and jobs

Progress call for proposals

Deadline: 15th January 2013

The overall objective of the Call is to is to encourage new forms of collaboration through partnerships between public and private actors on the labour market (such as public and private employment services, companies including SME’s, chambers of commerce, training and education providers, social partners, labour market intelligence entities) to address persistent skills shortages and mismatches to help fill the gap between labour supply and demand in the EU. 

The activities should aim to achieve the following technical objectives: 

1. Delivery to the end users of specific employment service(s) leading to sustainable placements in jobs and apprenticeships or other measureable outcomes by a mixed set of actors, including measures to support labour mobility at national and European level. 

2. Provision of analytical and methodological evidence based findings related to the form and working method of the partnership between the co-operating organisations experienced during the development and implementation of the actions, including an assessment of success and failure factors, challenges and solutions for shortcomings. 

3. Development of concrete labour market intelligence tools, allowing for the identification of skills gaps and needs resulting from structural shifts to a low carbon economy, as well as their impact on changing skills sets. Measures to be financed under this call should be concrete and action oriented and carry a true added value in terms of making a difference where rolled out.

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Med Programme: Call for Proposals on Integrated Maritime Approach

Deadline: 10 January 2014 

The call shall be targeting four priorities, namely: 

 1) Maritime Innovation and economic development, 

 2) Environment protection, 

 3) Transport and accessibility

 4) Governance and policy response. 

With respect to the first 3 priorities, partners should either have experience within previous Med projects or other European cooperation projects. 

Priority 4, on the other hand, is only open to national and local authorities and previous participation in Med or EU funded projects is not necessary. 

The total budget for this call amounts to EUR 5 million.

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Progress Call for proposals for social policy experimentations supporting social investments

Deadline for submitting proposals: 16/12/2013 

This call focuses on methodological aspects of the different phases of social policy innovations, policy reforms or policy adaptations. Social policy experimentation within this call should aim at measuring the impact of a relevant social policy intervention and be based on a sound methodology. The scope is to attract proposals designing social policy interventions in line with the social investment package which contains three policy reform strands to help member states adapt their social protection systems to the societal challenges. 

These include: 

• activating and enabling benefits and services to support people’s inclusion in society and the labour market; • social protection systems to respond to people’s needs throughout their lives; 

 •effective and efficient spending to ensure adequate and sustainable social protection. 

Applicants must be established in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey or Serbia. 

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of stakeholders involved in the process of social policy innovation. The lead applicant must be a public authority at central, regional or lovel level or bodies governed by public law. Co-applicants must be public authorities, bodies governed by public law, civil society organisations or private sector organisations. It is encouraged to include academic structures. 

The budget for this call is €3.5 million. 

Grants are worth between €700,000 and €1 million covering up to 80%of eligible costs for a period between 24 to 36 months.

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URBACT Call for Proposals for the Creation of Pilot Networks

Deadline 04 November 2013

URBACT Call for proposals is now open for the creation of up to 4 Pilot Networks for the transfer of good practice in the field of integrated and sustainable urban development.

In URBACT II, the focus of exchange networks has been on fostering integrated and participative approaches to urban policies through sharing experience and practices, and improving local policies (production of Local Action Plans). The full chain of identification, transfer and validation of "good practices" in the field of urban policies has barely been explored. It is proposed to experiment this "capitalisation of good practices" process with small scale pilot projects under the current programme so as to explore tools and processes to be embedded in URBACT III. T

The pilot Transfer Networks shall aim to: 

1. Support the validation of good practices through the transfer (re-use) by cities in the framework of a transnational exchange and learning project. 

2. Identify key elements of success for the transfer of the selected practices 

 3. Explore how transnational cooperation can support the identification, validation, dissemination and active in-take of good practices in the field of integrated sustainable urban development (in the perspective of the URBACT III programme, with a focus on the EU2020 objectives).

More generally, these pilot Transfer networks shall allow the programme to explore how URBACT III could, building on transnational cooperation, foster and support the mapping, re-use and validation of good practices. 

The budget of the Pilot Transfer Networks will range from 250.000 to 400.000 EUR depending on the number of partners involved. Cities will need to consider their financial contribution to the project as co-financing is fixed at a maximum of 70% for competitiveness regions and 80% for convergences regions 

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Analysis of reception, protection and integration policies for unaccompanied minors in the EU

DEADLINE for submission of proposals: 24 October 2013

 The main objective of this Pilot Project is to identify good practices on prevention, reception, protection and integration policies for unaccompanied minors.

The Pilot project will cover the following specific objectives:

(a) Identifying prevention actions and policies vis-à-vis the group to which the Unaccompanied Minors belong (e.g. asylum seekers, victims of trafficking, children who enter illegally into the Union) and/or the country or region of origin

(b) Identifying good practices in measures to support protection programmes for Unaccompanied Minors in third countries.

(c) Identifying best practices on child reception and protection, and in particular on issues such as procedures at first encounter, legal representation, appointment of a guardian, access to and adequacy of reception facilities, initial interviews, education and medical care.

(d) Identifying good practices in specific measures and procedural guarantees for Unaccompanied Minors in the European Union.

(e) Evaluating the various experiences of combating the phenomenon of unaccompanied minors going missing and identifying best practices.

(f) Identifying best practices on restoring family unity and reintegration of Unaccompanied Minors in their countries of origin.

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects is EUR 1.000.0004 .

The minimum grant will be EUR 200.000 and the maximum grant will be EUR 1.000.000. Financial contribution from the European Union cannot exceed 90 % of the total eligible costs of the action.

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Call for proposals – Daphne III – Specific 116000 hotline

Deadline: 6 February 2013

This call for proposals for action grants aims to co-fund projects to set up or run 116 000 hotlines for missing children that are presented by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or other entities, which are mandated by the national authorities in setting up and/or running such 116 000 hotlines 

The duration of the project should not exceed 24 months. 

The 116 000 hotline has been designed to report missing children and provide social support services for children and families when a child goes missing. EU Member States, national regulators, telecom operators and organisations wishing to provide this service must each make a strong commitment to ensure the 116 000 number is operational. 

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A first overview of the Call 2012 CIP Eco-Innovation

By the deadline of the Call 2012, 284 proposals had been submitted, a figure comparable to the 279 proposals submitted to the Call 2011. 

 In total 916 participants from 31 countries took part in the proposals. Green Business and Recycling are the two sectors that attracted the most proposals. 

The total funding request is roughly EUR 196 million. Almost 67% of the participants taking part in proposals are SMEs as in previous calls and less than 7% of the projects do not involve any SME. 

Approximately half of the proposals (53%) involve participants from different countries and 76% have more than one partner. 

A new Eco-innovation call will be published in Spring 2013.

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KEP Austria: Call for proposal

European funds: Know-how Exchange Programme

Deadline: 28th December 2012

Objectives of the funding programme:

• Strengthen economic and social advancement of the CEI non-EU Member States; 
• Help the recent EU members in their transformation from recipients to donors (emerging donors) of development assistance; 
• Promote principles of foreign development aid and support international collaboration among institutions in CEI member countries.

Within the scope of KEP AUSTRIA Call for Proposal 2013 the following priority areas apply:

 I. European Integration, Capacity Building and Market Economy 

II. Infrastructure Planning and Development 

III. Agriculture, Energy, and Environment 

Project implementation should start after 1 March 2013. Project duration should not exceed 12 months

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European fundings

Call for proposals under the under the Lifelong Learning Programme

The general objective of the call is to promote the implementation of the four strategic objectives of the 'Strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (ET 2020)' (lifelong learning and mobility; quality and efficiency; equity, social cohesion and active citizenship; creativity and innovation) and a set of strategic priorities agreed for 2012-14.

The call is divided into two parts:

  - providing support to national implementation and awareness-raising of the objectives of European cooperation in education and training (ET 2020);

- providing support to implementation of innovative learning environments using information and communications technology.

Transnational cooperation may occur at national, regional or local level. It may cover different types (formal, non-formal, informal) and levels (pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, adult, initial and continuing vocational education and training) of learning and may include links to other sectors (e.g. employment and business).

Further information:

European fundings: future internet

European funding for research and innovation: Future internet

Deadline: 24th October 2012

The Future Internet Public Private Partnership aims to advance Europe's competitiveness in Future Internet technologies and systems and to support the emergence of Future Internet-enhanced applications of public and social relevance.

Areas of intervention for 2012 call for proposals:

Pervasive and trusted network and services infrastructures

• Use case scenarios and early trials

• Capacity buildings and infrastructure support

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ICT Proposers' Day 2012

ICT Proposers' Day 2012

26-27 September, Warsaw

Networking for European ICT Research and Development

The ICT Proposers' Day is a unique networking opportunity to build quality partnerships for participating in the new Information and Communication Technologies Work Programme for 2013. Building on the success of the previous ICT Proposers' Days, the event will provide:

• first-hand information from European Commission officials on the new ICT Work Programme 2013, offering around 1.5 billion euro of EU funding
• answers to questions related to the upcoming calls for proposals
• an opportunity to present and discuss your project idea during one of the networking sessions a platform for exchanging ideas and finding right partners to form project consortia
• guidance on how to present a successful proposal

Who should attend?

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

European funds for embedded systems

ARTEMIS Call 2012 Information & Networking Event Poland

11 May 2012 Science and Technology Park, Trzy Lipy 3, 80-172 Gdansk, Poland

Poland is the newest country that joins the ARTEMIS programme - with a budget of 1 mio this newcomer participates for the first time in the ARTEMIS Call.

The audience will exist of companies of the biggest Polish ICT Clusterm Pomerania Region. The speaking language is English so that starting international consortia for Call 2012 can complete their projects with excellent Polish partners. There are many excellent Polish companies with products and services that provide perfect niche solutions. Although companies know that they have excellent Embedded Systems products, they are often not aware of how powerful these can be since they do not really consider what they are doing as a special area of expertise. A substantial part of the programme consists of matchmaking of projectideas and consortia.

To register for the event: http://www.artemis-ia.eu/meeting/view?meeting=32

European Civil Protection Financial Instrument

Call for proposals: Projects on prevention and preparedness

The 2012 call for proposals for projects on prevention and preparedness in the field of civil protection covers two separate sections, each with specific objectives and budget:

(A) Prevention Projects

(B) Preparedness Projects

European funding for GMES and GNSS based services

European Mobile and Mobility Industries Alliance: Phase II

Deadline: 27/06/2012

The overall purpose of this call is to extend the European Mobile and Mobility Alliance (EMMIA) in a second phase focused on a number of concrete and operational activities with special emphasis on promoting the further use of data and information from Earth monitoring and satellite navigation.

Strand 1  calls for the development and testing of new voucher schemes aimed at promoting the further use of GMES and GNSS based services in mobile services industries. Such vouchers schemes could either directly support mobile services providers (“Type A”) or the users of such mobile services (“Type B”). Strand 1 of the call will be implemented through a one-step application procedure.

European funding for cinema

European support to video on demand and digital cinema distribution

Call deadline: 25th  June 2012

The following actions are eligible under this Call for proposals:

1. video on demand (VoD): service enabling individuals to select audiovisual works from a central server for viewing on a remote screen by streaming and/or downloading;

European funds for researchers

Marie Curie for international outgoing fellowships for career development (IOF)

Deadline: 16th August 2012

The project is expected to include a coherent research programme for the total duration of the contract, of which an initial outgoing phase, of between one and two years, is to be spent in a distinct legal entity in an other third country (partner organisation) and a mandatory re/integration phase of one year within the contracting organisation (return host organisation) in a Member State or an associated country.

EU contribution: Progress programme

European funding: industrial relations and social dialogue

Call deadline: 17 April 2012 and 4 September 2012

Objectives of this call include measures and initiatives related to the adaptation of social dialogue to changes in employment and work and related challenges, such as addressing modernisation of the labour market, quality of work, anticipation, preparation and management of change and restructuring, flexicurity, skills, mobility and migration, youth employment, contributions to the health and safety strategy, reconciliation of work and family life, gender equality, action in the field of anti-discrimination, active ageing, active inclusion and decent work.