EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

EAC/2019/0669

“Cultural Heritage in Action” peer-learning scheme http://www.culturalheritageinaction.eu/culture/Good_practices for local authorities financed by Creative Europe.

The deadline for this open call for local authorities to submit good practices on their cultural heritage actions has been extended until 27 April 2020, 17:00 pm CET.

EACEA 39/2019

Cultural Cooperation Projects in the Western Balkans 2019 https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/ipa/funding/coopwb_en

The deadline for the call for proposals for “Strengthening cultural cooperation with and competiveness of cultural and creative industries in the Western Balkans” has been extended until 28 April 2020, 17:00 pm CET.

EAC/S18/2019

Co-Creation and Co-Production scheme for the music sector https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/content/co-creation-and-co-production-scheme-music-sector_en.

The deadline for this call for the 2019 Preparatory Action “Music Moves Europe: Boosting European diversity and talent” has been extended until 30 April 2020, 13:00 pm CET.

EAC/S53/2019

Music education and learning https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/content/music-education-and-learning_en .

The deadline for this call for the 2019 Preparatory Action “Music Moves Europe: Boosting European diversity and talent” has been extended until 30 April 2020, 13:00 pm CET.

Organisations active in ongoing EU Aid deployment projects are responsible for the safety and security of EU Aid Volunteers, including threats to health. Therefore, organisations are obliged to review their security assessment and decide which steps to take bearing in mind the safety and security of volunteers currently deployed. Organisations shall instruct their EU Aid Volunteers accordingly.

The specific objectives of this call are to:
— Promote trans-national cooperation and mutual learning among public authorities at the highest institutional level of the eligible countries in order to foster systemic improvement and innovation in the education and training fields,
— Enhance the collection and analysis of substantive evidence to ensure the successful implementation of innovative measures,
— Facilitate the transferability and scalability of innovative measures.

The priority themes for this call are:
LOT 1
— Digital education and competences
— Teaching and teachers
LOT 2
— Funding mechanisms for upskilling and reskilling, including schemes similar to Individual Learning Accounts
— Policy and processes to support the validation of non-formal and informal learning, including through effective guidance

For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. If the
United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, you will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible, to participate) or be required to leave the project on the basis of Article II.17 of the grant agreement.

Measure Civil Society Projects
This measure aims at supporting projects promoted by transnational partnerships and networks directly involving citizens. Those projects gather citizens from different horizons, in activities directly linked to Union policies, with a view to give them an opportunity to actively participate in the Union policy making process in areas related to the objectives of the Programme.

A Civil Society Project must include at least two of the following types of activities:
- Promotion of societal engagement and solidarity: activities promoting debate/campaigns/actions on themes of common interest in the framework of the rights and responsibilities of the Union citizens and making the link to the European political agenda and policy making process.
- Gathering of opinions: activities aiming at gathering the individual opinions of the citizens favouring a bottom up approach (including the use of social networks, webinars, etc.) and media
literacy.
- Volunteering: activities promoting solidarity among Union citizens and beyond.

Maximum grant
Maximum eligible grant for a Civil Society Project is: EUR 150 000.

During the Transition Period, the United Kingdom is no longer a Member State of the European Union or of the European Atomic Energy Community. As a third country, it will no longer participate in the EU’s decision-making processes. It will also no longer be represented in the EU institutions (such as the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers), EU agencies, offices or other EU bodies.

However, and as agreed with the United Kingdom:

• All EU law, across all policy areas, is still applicable to, and in, the United Kingdom, with the exception of provisions of the Treaties and acts that were not binding upon, and in, the United Kingdom before the Withdrawal Agreement entered into force. In particular, the United Kingdom will remain in the EU Customs Union and in the Single Market with all four freedoms (of movement of goods, capital, persons and services) and all EU policies applying.

• All institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union continue to hold the powers conferred upon them by EU law in relation to the United Kingdom and to natural and legal persons residing, or established in, the United Kingdom throughout the transition period.

• The United Kingdom continues to participate in EU programmes and to contribute to the Union’s budget covering the period 2014-2020.

#CreativeEurope Cultural Cooperation Projects in the Western Balkans 2019

The overall objective of this Call is to foster reconciliation and good neighbourly relations in the Western Balkans through cultural cooperation and creation.
The specific objectives of this Call are:
• to increase cultural cross-border cooperation within the Western Balkans region and the EU Member States;
• to strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries in the region.

Priorities:

Increase the capacity of cultural and creative industries to operate transnationally and internationally
• Increase transnational circulation of cultural and creative works and transnational mobility of cultural and creative players
• Enhance inter-cultural dialogue between artists, cultural operators as well as the general public

1) Eligibility of costs in ongoing actions or contracts

Where individuals who were to take part in mobilities, meetings or events are prevented from doing so, for example owing to their recent contact with someone suffering from the virus or their presence in an area considered to be at high risk, EACEA may consider as eligible* expenses of travel or accommodation that could not be cancelled and which are not reimbursed from other sources provided that the beneficiaries/contractors/experts submit relevant supporting documents in this sense (in particular that they have claimed reimbursement and that it was denied).

2) Where COVID-19 prevents implementation of action or contract

Where the execution of contracts is impeded because of COVID-19 (for example due to unavailability of key staff, the impossibility of carrying on work in a zone affected by the virus or any other case which can be regarded as force majeure), EACEA may accept replacement activities or delayed performance. This could be done following a justified request by the beneficiary/contractor/expert to amend the contract including by extending the period of its implementation/ performance.

Documentation

Beneficiaries/contractors/experts must collect and keep the relevant documentation which might be needed at a later stage to prove/justify any decision taken having an impact on the implementation of the project (notably from a financial point of view). Other updates may follow as the situation evolves.

Given the limited size of the EU budget, the main response will come from Member States' national budgets. 

The Temporary Framework provides for five types of aid:

(i)  Direct grants, selective tax advantages and advance payments: Member States will be able to set up schemes to grant up to €800,000 to a company to address its urgent liquidity needs.

(ii)  State guarantees for loans taken by companies from banks: Member States will be able to provide State guarantees to ensure banks keep providing loans to the customers who need them.

(iii) Subsidised public loans to companies: Member States will be able to grant loans with favourable interest rates to companies. These loans can help businesses cover immediate working capital and investment needs.

(iv) Safeguards for banks that channel State aid to the real economy: Some Member States plan to build on banks' existing lending capacities, and use them as a channel for support to businesses – in particular to small and medium-sized companies. The Framework makes clear that such aid is considered as direct aid to the banks' customers, not to the banks themselves, and gives guidance on how to ensure minimal distortion of competition between banks.

(v) Short-term export credit insurance: The Framework introduces additional flexibility on how to demonstrate that certain countries are not-marketable risks, thereby enabling short-term export credit insurance to be provided by the State where needed.

This call for proposals aims to identify organisations for which tasks falling within the plant health mission of the Animal & Plant Health unit can be entrusted by EFSA. In particular, these tasks regard the commodity risk assessment and/or assessment of commodity treatments for the evaluation of the technical dossiers sent by Third Countries for High Risk Plants.

Detailed descriptions of the tasks/activities:
Commodity risk assessment and/or assessment of treatments of commodities of high-risk plants, plant products and other objects, within the meaning of Art. 42(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, mainly from the following 13 taxa traded mostly as plants for planting for ornamental purposes: Acacia Mill., Albizia Durazz., Baunhinia L., Berberis L., Caesalpina L., Cassia L., Cornus L., Hamamelis L., Jasminus L., Ligustrum L., Lonicera L., Nerium L., Robinia L.. (with the exclusion of the species Albizzia julibrissin and Robinia pseudacacia, for which the work by EFSA is already completed).

General objectives

This call is confined to the artistic creation in the music sector and, for the purpose of this call for proposal, the terms of co-creation and co-production are used as synonyms that
depict the collaborative process of artistic creation of lyrics and songs, aiming at commercialisation and revenue generation.

the general objective of this call is to identify and to support at least 10 innovative and sustainable pilot co-production and co-creation programmes for songwriters and musicians in the music sector with a clear European added-value  in order to facilitate the development of European music repertoire.

Specific objectives
The proposals should demonstrate their contribution to the following compulsory specific objective:
Organise a nurturing and inspirational camp of European dimension to group creative people to improve the participants’ songwriting skills. The camp should provide opportunities to learn from experienced professionals, boost creative writing skills,
enable collaboration with other camp attendees, help build the participants’ songwriting network, promote networking with successful music industry professionals, and help participants navigate through the creative process and the business side of songwriting.
The proposed co-production and co-creation schemes should have a clear vision on how the produced musical products will be used for pitching and envisage how they can reach the audience.

General objectives

The purpose of this call is not to use music as a means to
achieve social inclusion, but rather to attract less advantaged children to the world of music. the overall aim of this call is the
elaboration and implementation of at least 8 innovative approaches to foster informal/non-formal music education and learning, involving either education institutions or representatives/representative organisations from the education sector cooperating with representatives/representative organisations of the music sector. The objective is to test small-scale projects with a European dimension. 

Specific objectives
The proposals should demonstrate their contribution to the general objective by covering the two following specific objectives:
1. Promote the cooperation between non-formal/informal education and the music sector with the aim to foster social inclusion, i.e. access to music for less advantaged children or community involvement;
2. Develop a small-scale project with a clear European added value, that is suitable for the exchange of good practices and could lead to a knowledge transfer for similar projects in other countries.

• BUDGET AVAILABLE
  
  The maximum grant per project will be EUR 30,000.00.
  The Commission expects to fund at least 8 proposals.
  The maximum co-financing rate will be 80%

This call for proposals will support transnational cooperation projects in the fields of general education and training and adult education.

The call comprises two lots:

Lot 1 — General education and training

Lot 2 — Adult education

Each application must address one general objective and one of the specific objectives, which are listed separately for Lot 1 and for Lot 2. Both the general and specific objectives of the call are exhaustive: proposals that do not address them will not be considered.

The financial contribution from the EU cannot exceed 80 % of the total eligible project costs.

The maximum grant per project will be:

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EUR 400 000 for projects of 24 months duration;

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EUR 500 000 for projects of 36 months duration.