Deadline: 27-Jun-22
The FOOD WAVE is pleased to launch a Call for proposals for Local Authorities promoting sustainable production and consumption patterns to fight climate change – Round 2.
The FOOD WAVE Project aims at reaching a pan-European impact, involving smaller youth organisations and local authorities interested in supporting the Action but lacking the necessary means to do so.
The project will support actions developed by Cities and Municipalities dealing with the topic of sustainable food consumption and production and targeting young people (15-35 years old).
Thematic Focus
Each proposed action needs to address the nexus between food and climate change! Different types of activities can be eligible for the sub grant:
- Sustainable diets to reduce the impact on the planet and protect human rights.
- Local alternative food systems, local producers and territorial markets.
- Fight against food waste.
- Sustainable food education and knowledge sharing/dissemination
- Fight against climate change and equal access to healthy, sustainable and fair food.
Funding Information
Any submitted proposal must be of max 5.000 EUR. Each applicant will benefit from a financing of 75% of the total of the action up to a maximum of 3.750 Eur. The remaining 25% of the action (a minimum of 1.250 Eur) will be provided by each applicant as co-funding.
Duration: The implementation phase will be included between the 29th of July 2022 until the 20th of December 2022.
Eligible Activities
Different types of activities- with a mandatory focus on young people aged 15-35 – may be eligible for sub-grants (this is a non-exhaustive list):
- Communication activities: elaboration of content videos, animations, infographics, and visual tools, virtual reality software (etc.).
- Promotion and dissemination activities: Development of the project values and campaign contents by blogger/vlogger, activities aimed at informing and promoting digital social activism(etc.)
- Awareness raising activities: Organization of street actions (e.g. flash mobs), community
- gardens, artistic installations, shows or workshops prioritizing informal learning settings (etc.).
- Training and learning-by-doing activities: working camps, voluntary activities, training courses, workshops, public events, thematic visits, webinars and digital workshops (etc.).
- Art projects and initiatives: organization of local exhibitions, art contests, artistic installations, street art initiatives, performances (etc.).
- Initiatives against food waste: educational activities aimed at combating food waste, initiatives in schools, promotion of good practices, waste recovery initiatives with solidarity purposes (etc.)
- Specifically, the applicants are encouraged to create synergies with the international event below:
- World Food Day (16th of October)
Location
Activities must take place in one of the following EU Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, France, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for a sub-grant under this Call for Proposals, the applicant must follow the requisites below:
- The applicant must be a Local Authority in the form of Municipality or City.
- The applicant must be legally established and acting in one of the 15 EU Member States involved in the Food Wave Project
- The applicant must not be the beneficiary of any other ongoing Project funded under the
- DEAR program, call for proposal EuropeAid / 160048 / DH / ACT / Multi.
- Neither Partners of the consortium of Food Wave nor their founding members are eligible.
- The applicant must be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action, not acting as an intermediary.
- Even though long-lasting collaboration with local youth organizations and associations is encouraged, it is mandatory that the aforementioned organizations are not already suppliers, in any capacity, of the Food Wave Project.
For more information, visit https://www.foodwave.eu/opportunities/empowering-urban-youth-for-climate-action-call-for-proposals-2nd-round/