EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

The main objective of this Call for Proposals is to promote development education and raise public awareness on development and cooperation policies.

The specific objective of this call for proposals is to provide support for and promote quality development education and awareness raising among the European public. The proposed projects must foster a growing awareness and critical understanding of the role, responsibility and lifestyles of the public in relation to an interdependent world. It should motivate their effective involvement in local and global Actions in support of the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.

For all lots, proposals must focus on interdependencies between developing countries and the European Union, and seek to build public understanding of global public goods and challenges (such as sustainable energy, food security, human development, and sustainable agriculture). A particular emphasis is expected on issues related to migration, climate change, and gender equality.

The deadline for the submission of concept notes is 01/06/2016 at 16:00 (Brussels date and time).

Three Calls for Proposals are open now under the Hercule III Programme 2014- 2020.

The Call for Proposals Technical Assistance invites national and regional administrations to submit applications for actions to strengthen their operational and administrative capacity to fight fraud, corruption and other irregularities perpetrated against the Union's financial interests.

The deadline for submission of applications is Thursday, 9 June 2016

The Call for Proposals Legal Training and Studies invites national and regional administrations, research institutes, universities and Not for Profit Organisations (NPO) to submit applications for actions to develop high profile research activities (including comparative law studies), the organisation of Conferences (including the annual meeting of the presidents of the Associations for European criminal law) as well as actions to raise awareness of the judiciary and other branches of the legal profession for the protection of the Union's financial interests.

The deadline for submission of applications is Thursday, 16 June 2016.

The Call for Proposals Training and Conferences invites national and regional administrations, research institutes, universities, NPO's and NGO's to submit applications for actions, such as the organisation of targeted specialised and risk analysis training workshops, conferences aimed at protecting the financial interests of the Union and at same time to attain an equivalent level of protection across the Union. The training actions are also intended to create networks between Member States, accession countries, candidate countries, non-EU Member States and international public organisations in order to facilitate exchange of information, experience and best practices. 

The deadline for submission of applications is Thursday, 23 June 2016.

The priorities of this call for proposals are:

• to address the stereotyping of educational and career choices and to promote gender equality in education, training and career guidance;
• to attract women into male-dominated sectors or occupations, and conversely to attract men into female-dominated sectors or occupations;
• to challenge stereotypical assumptions about the roles of women and men in the labour market, including in leadership positions, and to change behaviours and practices that hamper equality;
• to ensure that work practices promote gender equality, and do not reinforce stereotypes, gender segregation and inequalities.

Deadline:27/05/2016 12:00 (noon) CET. 

The National Science Centre invites researchers to submit proposals under POLONEZ 2 funding opportunity addressed to incoming researchers who would like to carry out basic research in host institutions in Poland.

Deadline: 15 June 2016

Priorities

•  to encourage victims and witnesses to report violence against women and/or children to the relevant authorities and institutions, thus ensuring their access to the support they are entitled to receive, taking account of and signposting existing mechanisms such as child and women's helplines, women's refuges, interagency and multidisciplinary children's houses, etc.; and/or
•  to develop and implement multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary cooperation (at national, regional or local level) that enables relevant professionals to effectively collaborate to prevent and respond to violence against women and/or children.

This call will fund the following activities:

•  awareness-raising activities targeted at women and/or children who are victims or potential victims of violence, and/or at bystanders or witnesses, to encourage the reporting of violence. Awareness-raising activities targeted towards specific groups of women, children, bystanders and/or witnesses are particularly welcome.
•  the exchange of best practices and development, testing and implementation of methods and practical tools (including protocols and guidelines) to enable the cooperation and coordination of professionals from different sectors (medical doctors, nurses and other health professionals, psychologists, lawyers, community workers, residential care givers, police, the judiciary, child helplines/violence against women helplines, victim support organisations, social workers, teachers at all levels of the education system etc.) who come into contact with women and/or children at risk of and/or victims of violence.

Deadline:1/06/2016

The general objective of this call for proposals is to support cultural, audio-visual and crosssectorial projects aiming at facilitating the integration of refugees in the European environment, enhancing mutual cultural understanding and fostering intercultural and interreligious dialogue, tolerance and respect for other cultures.

The specific objectives of this call are to establish transnational cultural and audiovisual projects that can:

• help refugees socialise and express themselves without necessarily speaking immediately the host country language.

• be learning platforms in a wider sense, fostering respect and understanding for diversity, intercultural and civic competencies, democratic values and citizenship.

• give EU citizens the opportunity to discover, learn from and understand the values and cultures of refugees and - in the process rediscover and enrich their own.

• support the showcasing and co-creation of cultural and/or audiovisual works across Europe.

• offer the possibility of collaboration with organisations in other sectors in order to stimulate a more comprehensive, rapid, effective and long-term response to this global challenge.

Deadline:28 April 2016, 12:00 CET/CEST (Midday, Brussels time) 

Implementation of the Culture Sub-programme scheme: Literary translation projects

Priorities

• Promoting the transnational mobility of artists and professionals with a view to enabling them to cooperate internationally and to internationalise their careers and activities in the Union and beyond, when possible on the basis of long-term strategies, and promoting the transnational circulation of cultural and creative works, the aim of which is to promote cultural exchanges, intercultural dialogue, understanding for cultural diversity and social inclusion;
• Strengthening audience development as a means of stimulating interest in and improving access to European cultural and creative works and tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Audience development seeks to help European artists/cultural professionals and their works reach as many people as possible across Europe and extend access to cultural works to under-represented groups. It also seeks to help cultural organisations adapt to the need to engage in new and innovative ways with audiences both to retain them, to build new audiences, diversify audiences including reaching current "non-audiences", and to improve the experience for both existing and future audiences and deepen the relationship with them;
• Fostering creativity, innovative approaches to creation, and new ways of ensuring spillover effects to other sectors. Developing and testing new and innovative models of revenue, management and marketing for the cultural sectors, in particular as regards the digital shift. A particular focus shall be given on supporting activities enabling cultural professionals to gain new skills, on those having an educational dimension and on those seeking to foster intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding among people from different cultures or backgrounds as well as to build on culture with a view to helping counter all forms of discrimination.

Deadline: 27/04/2016

The Challenge Prize The AAL Programme is launching its first Challenge Prize to source innovations in internet connected devices and technologies (Internet of Things) that empower older adults to achieve the quality of life they aspire to, socially and independently. The innovation should present a business opportunity which improves connectivity between older adults, devices and technologies related to any aspect of their life (e.g., home, social, work, study, transport or services). Innovations must involve older adults in the development and testing of the technology. 

Deadline: 13 May 2016 at 12.00 noon Central European Time.

The second call for project proposals of Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE is going to open in late April 2016.

A preliminary schedule of national info days is the following:

Austria: 19 May 2016, Vienna

Czech Republic: last week of April, Prague

Italy: 6 May 2016, Veneto region

Poland: 16 May 2016, Warsaw

Slovenia: first week of May, Ljubljana

The dates for Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia will be published on this website as soon as available.

The Alpine Space programme (ASP) follows the "total costs" principle . The project participants from EU Member States are co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) up to a maximum rate of 85% of the eligible costs. Every ERDF beneficiary needs to secure public or private contribution to complete its budget (15% at least) either from its own resources or from other entities. As Liechtenstein and Switzerland are not members of the European Union, project participants from these countries are not eligible for ERDF co-financing.

Geographical location

As a general rule, project participants have to be located inside the cooperation area (see also section 1.1.1 of the cooperation programme):

o Austria: whole country; o France: Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Franche-Comté, Alsace;

o Germany: districts of Oberbayern and Schwaben (in Bayern), Tübingen and Freiburg (in BadenWürttemberg);

o Italy: Lombardia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Valle d’Aosta, Piemonte and Liguria;

o Liechtenstein: whole country;

o Slovenia: whole country;

o Switzerland: whole country.

All projects must have project partners related to UK infrastructure, e.g. infrastructure owners, operators, regulators or policy-makers. Proposals should demonstrate the project partner’s challenges related to environmental risk, how science can be applied to develop a 'solution' and the impact that the project will have on the project partner.

A webinar will be held to talk through the technical aspects of the funding call process followed by a Q&A session.

The webinar will be held on 22nd March 12pm -1pm.

Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 20th April 2016 at 4pm 

This live discussion and Q&A session is about the AAL Programme's first ever Challenge Prize for Smart Ageing using the Internet of Things, which is offering a €50,000 prize as well as expert mentoring for the winner. Judges are looking for exciting innovations that empower older people to achieve the quality of life they aspire to, socially and independently.

Wed, Mar 16, 2016 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CET

The global objective of this call for proposals is:

To strengthen civil society organisations' and local authorities' contribution to governance and development processes.

For LOT 1 - CSOs:

1. To support and strengthen CSOs' capacity to perform their roles as development actors, services providers and agents in policy processes, in coordination with the country's relevant stakeholders, in the areas of:
   • support to children, women, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups;
   • gender equality;
   • education;
   • health;
   • food security and sustainable natural resources management;
   • water and sanitation;
   • culture, media and information
   • cultural and natural heritage;
   • interfaith dialogue and prevention of radicalisation;
   • youth empowerment;
   • economic empowerment for disadvantaged groups and populations segments out of mainstream services;
   • decent work and rights at work;
   • migration and fight to trafficking and smuggling.

1. To foster CSOs' cooperation with similar entities (eg with other Eritrean, African and European CSOs) and with LAs in-country and abroad and/or to strengthen CSOs' cooperation with international and regional intergovernmental organisations.

For LOT 2 – LAs

1. To support LAas' capacity to perform their roles as development actors, service and welfare providers, and promoters of inclusive and sustainable growth at the local level (according to their institutional mandate) in the areas of:
   • support to children, women, people with disability and other vulnerable groups;
   • gender equality;
   • education;
   • health;
   • food security and sustainable natural resources management;
   • water and sanitation;
   • culture, media and information;
   • cultural and natural heritage;
   • interfaith dialogue and prevention of radicalisations;
   • youth empowerment;
   • economic empowerment for disadvantaged groups and populations segments out of mainstream services;
   • decent work and rights at work;
   • migration and fight to trafficking and smuggling.

1. To foster LAs' cooperation with similar entities (eg with other Eritrean, African and European LAs) and with CSOs in-country and abroad and/or to strengthen LAs' cooperation with international and regional intergovernmental organisations.

Deadline for submission of  concept notes

30 May 2016

Register to find new partners, give visibility to your project idea and meet the Interreg NWE team at the next call’s transnational event.

Event date: 7/04/2016

Online registration is compulsory and places are limited to 300

Pathfinder awards are normally between £7k and £10k, but in exceptional circumstances a maximum of £20k is available (NERC will fund 80% FEC).The fund is open to researchers with current or past NERC funding. Proposals for Follow-on support must build on the outputs of recent or previous NERC-funded research activity.

There is no closing date for this scheme; applications should be submitted at any time.

The lead applicant training will take place in Hotel Westin, Zagreb (Croatia) from 10-11 May 2016, followed by a limited number of individual consultations on 12 May 2016.

Slots for individual consultations on 12 May 2016 will be offered on a first-come-first serve basis. Registration for these will open with the event registration in late April. In addition to the consultations offered on the day after the lead applicant training, the joint secretariat will be available for consultations either personally in Vienna or via phone/skype after an online registration.

The first calls for promotion campaigns for EU agricultural products under new EU promotion rules have been opened.

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of actions under 2016 CALL FOR PROPOSALS SIMPLE PROGRAMMES Information provision and promotion measures concerning agricultural products implemented in the internal market and in third countries in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014  is estimated at EUR 93 650 000.

Deadline: 28.4.2016

The objectives 

- Helping new entrepreneurs acquire and build managerial skills and further develop their business plan/activity by learning from experienced entrepreneurs;

- Learning on the job by the new entrepreneurs by working with the host entrepreneur on concrete business projects;

- Supporting the host entrepreneur in researching, developing and testing or piloting new business concepts, products or services by the new entrepreneur's bringing in fresh ideas from another environment (in national, academic, market etc. terms);

- Raising entrepreneurs' awareness for the benefits from going international and, in particular, from exploiting the potential of the Single European Market by getting hands-on know-how about other national markets within the EU;

- Intensifying the networking and business relationship between entrepreneurs from different participating countries, especially laying the ground for further internationalisation of SMEs'

businesses and for further spreading of innovative methods or products in the Single European Market.

Deadline:05 April 2016 17:00:00

International Fund for Cultural Diversity aim to promote sustainable development and poverty reduction. 

Deadline: 15/04/2016

Each KTP is a three-way partnership between a business, an academic institution and agraduate. The academic institution employs the recently-qualified graduate who works at the company. The graduate, known as the ‘associate’, brings new skills and knowledge to the business.

A KTP can last between 12 and 36 months depending on the project and the needs of the business. It is part-funded by a grant.

2016 close dates for submission are:

• 11 May 2016
• 6 July 2016
• 7 September 2016
• 2 November 2016