EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

Call for applications now open: deadline 31 January 2013 (5pm GMT)

The grants programme will be particularly supportive of proposals that mainstream the Foundation's cross-cutting outcome areas in their project design:

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Restricted Call for Proposals: Human Resources Development Operational Programme IPA Component IV

Measure 1.2: "To increase employment of young people"

Budget line: 04.0601

Reference: EuropeAid/133936/M/ACT/TR

Deadline for submission of proposals: 08/02/2013

The global objective of this Call for Proposals is: To attract and retain more people in employment by promoting youth employment and decreasing unemployment rate of young people.

The specific objectives of this Call for Proposals are:

Main target groups of this call for proposals are:

Ø    Young unemployed people as new university graduates,

Ø    Young unemployed people as secondary school graduates,

Ø    Young unemployed people with lower educational attainment,

Ø    Early school leavers,

Ø    Young people who are still at school,

Ø    Young people with disabilities

Please note that the main target group will be young people between the ages of 15-29.

Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

Any grant requested under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:

     Political parties and their affiliated structures are not eligible under this Call for Proposals.Individual commercial enterprises or groups of enterprises are not eligible applicants or partners under this Call for Proposals. However, considering the crucial role they bear in achieving the objectives of the programme, applicants are strongly recommended to apply with associates in the relevant sectors.

The minimum number of partners for application is 1 and the maximum number of partners for application is 3.

Same Types of activity:

 Component 1: Improving vocational and generic skills and qualifications of young people in line with the eligible sectors

Component 2: Improving the entrepreneurship skills and knowledge of young people to start up their own business in the eligible sectors

Component 3: Increasing young people’s job experiences, occupational and career knowledge via internship, easy transition from school to work via high quality guidance and counselling services

FP7 Call Joint Programming Coordination 2013

Call identifier: FP7-JPROG-REGIONS-2013
• Date of publication: 18 December 2012
• Deadline: 19 March 2013 at 17.00.00, Brussels local time
• Indicative budget: A total of EUR 2.00 million is foreseen for this call

All participants in the proposal must be independent legal entities which:
• Finance or manage publicly funded national or regional programmes related to the addressed domains or
• Institutions which have been expressly mandated to represent the country/region in JPI  activities.

Through the National Workforce Development Fund (NWDF) the Australian Government will provide $700 million over five years to industry to support training and workforce development in areas of current and future skills need.

Under NWDF, organisations can identify their current and future business and workforce development needs and apply for funding to support the training of existing workers and new workers in areas of shortages.

The Fund is part of the Australian Government’s Building Australia’s Future Workforce package and also forms part of Australian Government Skills Connect, an initiative designed to link employers and industries to funding for whole of workforce (including language, literacy and numeracy training and mentoring of Australian Apprenticeships) planning and development.

The main objective behind the scheme is to involve the voluntary sector and training institutions of repute to improve educational and socioeconomic conditions of the target group i.e. Scheduled Castes with a view to upgrade skill to enable them to start income generating activities on their own or get gainfully employed in some sector or the other. The principle that good voluntary organizations should not only be assisted but also consciously built up has been guiding spirit behind the formulation of the Scheme.

Assistance under the Scheme is admissible for establishing centres and developing and delivering services, which may equip the Scheduled Castes by upgrading their skills to enable them to start income generating activities either through self-employment or wage employment. Grant-in-aid is mainly given for the following purposes:-

CALL FOR PROPOSALS VP/2012/007

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR SOCIAL POLICY EXPERIMENTATIONS

PROGRESS 2012

BUDGET HEADING 04.040102

This call for proposals on social policy experimentations intends to improve the quality

and effectiveness of social policies and to facilitate their adaptation to new social needs

and societal challenges. Through this call, PROGRESS countries embarking on welfare reforms are offered financial support to experiment envisaged policy changes and reforms before implementing them, if successful, on a wider scale.

Scope

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. To be selected under this call, projects should focus on a relevant issue within the context of employment and social policies, keeping in mind in all cases the gender equality dimension of the issue and the link with the Country Specific Recommendations9 2012-2013 applying to the participating countries.

The Commission invites potential applicants to consider in particular the following themes:

• Promotion of youth activation measures to tackle and prevent youth unemployment and exclusion, in particular for young people facing multiple barriers to labour market entry (e.g. those living in rural, deprived urban, remote and peripheral areas), in line with the Youth Opportunities Initiative, which is a multidimensional policy approach combining actions for preventing early school leaving, supporting skills development, facilitating transition from education to work and access to the labour market for the youth across the EU;

• Provision of quality childcare services, which requires a comprehensive approach in line with the Strategy for Equality between women and men (2010- 2015) and the Communication on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) that focuses on the provision and quality of key services for improving child well-being, covering – among other things – accessibility, affordability, staff

competences and quality assurance mechanisms. ECEC also has an impact on issues such as gender equality, poverty, women's labour market participation, birth rates and the development of human potential;

• Promotion of active and healthy ageing, which is underpinned by cross-sectoral actions aiming, among others, at improving the health status and the quality of life, supporting the sustainability and efficiency of health care and social services systems, ensuring decent working conditions and prolonging working lives, as well as at promoting social inclusion and independent living for all citizens, with a particular focus on older people, as outlined in the Strategic Implementation Plan

of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.

Indicative budget, minimum and maximum grants, rate of co-financing

The overall indicative amount made available for this call is 4 200 000 €. The grant requested should be 700 000 € minimum and 1 000 000 € maximum. 1 000 000 € will be allocated to projects focusing on youth activation measures. If the quality of the applications dedicated to this theme is not judged sufficient by the Evaluation Committee, the Commission reserves the right to reallocate this budget to the applications addressing other themes.

The grant will not exceed 80% of the total eligible costs of the action. The applicant has to guarantee the co-financing of the remaining 20%. The equivalent of no less than 20% of the total eligible costs is to be supported by the applicant's own resources or from other sources. Contributions in kind are not accepted as co-financing.

The Commission reserves the right not to distribute the funds available if the quality of the applications received does not warrant it.

Eligibility of the applicant

The applicant should meet the following eligibility criteria:

1. The applicant must be established in one of the PROGRESS participating countries;

2. The applicant must be a public authority, at central, regional or local level, or a body governed by public law;

As this call focuses on public policy interventions, it is addressed to public authorities

acting as policy-makers, at national, regional or local level. A good quality cooperation with beneficiaries and stakeholders - including socialpartners, social service providers and civil society organisations – will be instrumental in making the social policy experiment a successful process.

Deadline for submission of proposals

The proposals must be submitted electronically online and sent by post or by personal delivery in one original to the Commission, by 15 February 2013 at the latest.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS N° VP/2012/013

BUDGET LINE 04-04-01-01

PARES (PARtnerships between Employment Services)EU Flagship "Agenda for New Skills and Jobs" Europe 2020

Objective and scope of the PARES call for proposals

The main objective of this call for proposals is to encourage new forms ofcollaboration between employment services at national and EU level for the deliveryof complementary services with a high standard of quality and efficiency. The call shall also help to promote a culture of partnership working by breaking traditionalbarriers and pre-conceptions regarding the different roles of employment services.

The present call for proposals will support projectswhich involve at least two different types of partners from public, private or thirdsector employment services, also being eligible education and training providers,NGOs, welfare institutions, etc. to work together by relying on the specific strengthsand expertise of each employment service. Partners can be of the same country, so

trans-nationality is not a pre-requisite for applying. The Commission commits itself to building partnerships among labour market actors by supporting cooperation projects on green jobs and worker transitions to a green economy under the current PARES Call for Proposals.

Projects should focus on how to improve, revamp and re-orient theskills set of jobseekers and job changers to ensure a smooth transition towards a greeneconomy and emerging jobs with a 'green tint'. In doing so, projects must demonstratethat the skills developed and training provided are responding to labour demand needs so as to improve direct placement and recruitment possibilities.

In this context, The "specific" skills associated with the green economy are not

entirely new skills. They are an add-on or a mixture of existing skills such as knowledge of sustainable materials, relevant traditional skills for installation of new technologies (e.g. fitting or electrical skills for installation of solar tube or panel technologies), skills to measure the carbon footprint and environmental impact assessment skills (e.g. energy assessment, diagnostic skills).

Each Project will clearly aim to achieve the two following technical objectives:

1. the development and delivery to the end users/clients of specific employment service(s) by the mixed set of partners. This shall include measurable pre-defined outcomes, leading in as far as possible to direct integration/insertion into the labour market and/or providing a relevant skills enhancing work experience covered by an employment contract.

2. the provision of analytical and methodological findings (lessons learned) to be based on a sound evaluation and focusing on the actions of the project. This should include success and failure factors, as well as pointers and recommendations for creating sustainable partnership models between employment services.

Key target groups with whom employment services should work include:

- the long term unemployed

- the low skilled

- youth

- redundant workers

Other eligible groups include single mothers, migrant and ethnic groups to be supported in their transitions into the labour market.

Financial conditions

The total available budget for this call is EUR 1.500.000. The Commission expects to finance a maximum of five projects.

The European Union's financial contribution will not exceed 80% of the total eligible costs of the activities involved. Sources of co-financing can be public or private.

The proposals must be submitted electronically online and sent by post in 3 hard copies (1 original and 2 copies) to the Commission not later than 01/03/2013. For the submission of a proposal, the Internet Web application SWIM must be used.

For more information and documents click here.

Call identifier: CIP-ICT PSP-2013-7
 Date of publication: 22 December 2012
 Closure date: 14 May 2013, at 17h00, Brussels local time
 Indicative budget : 125.7M€

Theme 1: Cloud of public services and smart cities

1.1: Cloud of public services

1.2: Smart, sustainable mobility

1.3: Preparing PPI on resource efficient
data centres for smart cities

Theme 2 : Digital content, open data and creativity

2.1: Europeana and creativity (including  enriching and improving Europeana,
coordinating Europeana, and promoting the use of Europeana by creative
industries)

2.2: Open data 

2.3: ICT for learning

2.4: Digital content technologies for a better internet for kids

2.5: eArchiving services

Theme 3: ICT for health, ageing well and inclusion

3.1: Preparing large scale deployment of targeted services to support active and healthy ageing

3.2: Supporting innovative solutions in eHealth, assisted living and for mobility

3.3: Networking for health, ageing well and inclusion

3.4:  Assisted mobility/navigation for older or impaired users

3.5: Biophotonics solutions for diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease

Theme 4: Trusted eServices

4.1:  Protection of   Web site against attacks

4.2: Security for networked infrastructure Pilot B

4.3:  Secure and trustworthy reporting of malware and suspected cybercrime

Theme 5: Open objective for Innovation and other actions

5.1: Open objective for Innovation 

5.2: Support to advance Corporate Social responsibility

5.3: Support to the Grand Coalition for ICT jobs

How is FP7 made up?
FP7 is made up of 4 main blocks of activities forming 4 specific programmes plus a fifth specific programme on nuclear research:
Cooperation

Ideas

People 

Capacities

Nuclear research and training