Deadline: 8-May-25
The “la Caixa” Foundation has launched the eighteen Call for Social Projects with a territorial scope: one for each autonomous community and another for the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
The purpose of this call is to collaborate with social organizations developing projects in the Canary Islands to promote initiatives aimed specifically at people in situations of social vulnerability, with the goal of improving their quality of life and promoting equal opportunities.
Areas of Action
- Elderly people
- In this area, they aim to promote projects that foster self-governance and empowerment among older adults, based on a holistic, personalized approach that connects with the environment and the community.
- They also promote projects that support older adults in preventing frailty and supporting both their functional and cognitive autonomy. In this regard, it is important to promote the development of meaningful relationships and combat unwanted loneliness and social isolation; facilitate increased well-being and improved emotional management among older adults; and foster the development of personal potential that enhances each person’s life plan
- Disability, mental disorder or illness
- In this area, they aim to promote support for people with disabilities and/or mental disorders by enhancing empowerment, promoting personal autonomy and/or independent living, and supporting activities of daily living. They also seek to eliminate all types of barriers to socialization and social inclusion throughout people’s lives. An intersectional, person-centered approach is especially relevant to addressing the multiple vulnerabilities that people with disabilities and/or mental disorders often experience.
- Poverty and social inclusion
- This area aims, first and foremost, to contribute to breaking the cycle of poverty and its chronicity by empowering children and adolescents and strengthening families as the focus of socio-educational action. This includes projects for the social and educational development of children and adolescents in vulnerable situations, with special emphasis on social support and/or mentoring. They highlight projects for early childhood (0-3 years) that place the child at the center; projects that seek to reduce early school leaving, with special attention to dropout rates throughout compulsory and post-compulsory secondary education at times and in environments of maximum vulnerability; and inclusive socio-educational projects that encompass sports, arts, or culture and are integrated with support for academic success.
- Secondly, this area aims to promote projects that facilitate the comprehensive development and social inclusion of people at risk of poverty and/or exclusion, promoting their capabilities and providing them with new opportunities.
Priorities
- Elderly people
- For this year 2025, the following actions have been defined as priorities:
- Promoting autonomy, decision-making, and empowerment of older adults
- Promoting meaningful personal relationships and preventing and intervening in situations of unwanted loneliness and social isolation
- Detection and intervention in situations of special vulnerability of the elderly
- For this year 2025, the following actions have been defined as priorities:
- Disability, mental disorder or illness
- For this year 2025, the following actions have been defined as priorities:
- Promoting independent living for people with disabilities and/or mental disorders through the promotion of personal autonomy, self-determination in decision-making, and accessibility
- Comprehensive care for people with illnesses and special psychosocial needs, complementary to the health system
- Promotion of community support networks and prevention and intervention in situations of unwanted loneliness
- For this year 2025, the following actions have been defined as priorities:
- Poverty and social inclusion
- Children, adolescents, and families. The following priority actions have been defined for 2025:
- Family and social support projects for early childhood (0-3 years)
- Educational support projects and comprehensive guidance to promote academic continuity and success, with special attention to the educational transition phases
- Inclusive socio-educational projects from the sports, artistic or cultural fields and in an integrated way to support academic success
- Young people, women and especially vulnerable people. For this year 2025, the empowerment and comprehensive support of the following has been defined as a priority:
- Young people in vulnerable situations in the process of transition to adulthood, with actions that facilitate access to an independent life
- Women with social problems, with special attention to single-parent families and women victims of gender violence, trafficking and/or sexual exploitation
- Particularly vulnerable people
- Children, adolescents, and families. The following priority actions have been defined for 2025:
Funding Information
- Projects submitted to this call may apply for grants of up to: 50.000 €
Duration
- The amount requested must be linked to the execution of a project with a duration of up to: 12 months
Transversal lines of Action
- All of these are understood as social action activities that can be applied across different areas of activity, with adaptation to each one.
- Socio-laboral integration
- Access to temporary residential resources
- Intercultural coexistence
- Promotion of healthy habits and emotional management
- Prevention of violence and addictions
- Culture as a tool for social inclusion
- Digital inclusion
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible entities
- The entities that may apply for the call are (as defined in the glossary of the rules):
- Non-profit entities.
- Social economy entities that, whether or not they are for-profit, explicitly state among the purposes stated in their statutes that their main objective is social cohesion or social and/or cultural interest.
- Non-profit cultural entities that, among the purposes indicated in their statutes, explicitly state social cohesion or social and/or cultural interest as their main objective
- Public administrations are excluded from this call.
- These entities must be registered in the corresponding administrative registry and be domiciled in this community.
- The entities that may apply for the call are (as defined in the glossary of the rules):
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