Deadline: 1 August 2017
Applications are open for The EEA and Norway Grants Fund for “Youth Employment” with an aim to support measures that promote youth employment across Europe.
EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment specifically aim to support transnational project initiatives that promote sustainable and quality youth employment. The focus on transnational cooperation reflects the view that unemployment among youth is a common European challenge and common European solutions should therefore be explored.
Funding Information
The available budget under this call is EUR 60.61 million.
Target Groups
The target group of the Fund is young people between 15 and 29, with a special focus on the 25-29 year olds. Projects developing solutions for:
- the long-term unemployed,
- discouraged people who have stopped looking for work,
- inactive women caring for children or incapacitated adults,
- ethnic minorities including Roma,
- asylum-seekers,
- the low-skilled,
- people with mental health issues and
- the disabled.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects shall involve entities from at least two countries, including at least one Beneficiary State.
- Each project must include one lead partner and at least one beneficiary partner.
- Eligible lead partner: any eligible entity established in a Beneficiary State
- Eligible beneficiary partner: any eligible entity established in a Beneficiary State, Ireland, Italy or Spain
- Expertise partners can be any eligible entity established in a Donor State, in a non-eligible EU Member State or international organisations.
- Only entities established in one of the 15 Beneficiary States can apply for funding and perform the tasks of lead partner in the project consortia. Entities established in one of the 15 Beneficiary States or in Ireland, Italy or Spain can join the consortia as beneficiary partners.
- There is no limit on the maximum number of beneficiary partners. The establishment of project consortia with more members than the minimum is considered favourable. However, the size of the partnership must be duly justified in order to reflect the specific scope of the project as well as to remain manageable.
- Eligible project partners may be entities, public or private, commercial or non-commercial and nongovernmental organisations, established as legal persons, including but not limited to:
- Municipalities, organisations owned or partly owned by municipalities, associations of municipalities
- Regions, organisations owned or partly owned by regions; associations of regions
- Organisational units of central government, organisations partly funded by central government units, state enterprises, state organisations
- Public and private education and research institutions
- Civil society organisations, non-profit organisations, social enterprises, interest associations of legal persons, foundations and endowment funds
- Commercial companies
- Cooperatives (manufacturing, housing, consumer)
- Business support organisations (incubators, start-up centres, etc.)
- Social partners (trade unions, sector associations, employer associations, chambers of commerce and industry).
- Sole proprietorships and natural persons are not eligible consortium members. Consortium members must be directly responsible for the implementation of the project for which they are seeking a grant, and must not act merely as an intermediary of project activities.
How to Apply
- Applicants are invited to submit project concept notes briefly describing the project idea, project activities and outputs, the members of the project consortium and a tentative budget.
- The concept notes shall be submitted electronically via given website.
Eligible Countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain.
For more information, please visit Youth Employment.