Deadline: 22 May 2018
The European Commission-Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is seeking proposals for a program entitled “Social inclusion and common values: the contribution in the field of education, training and youth” in order to support transnational cooperation projects in the fields of education, training and youth.
Program Lots & Objectives
The program is divided in to two lots:
- Lot 1 – Education and training
- Enhancing the acquisition of social and civic competences, fostering knowledge, understanding and ownership of values and fundamental rights;
- Promoting inclusive education and training and fostering the education of disadvantaged learners, including through supporting teachers, educators and leaders of educational institutions in dealing with diversity and reinforcing socio-economic diversity in the learning environment;
- Enhancing critical thinking and media literacy among learners, parents and educational staff;
- Supporting the inclusion of newly arrived migrants in good quality education, including by assessing knowledge and validating prior learning;
- Fostering digital skills and competences of digitally excluded groups (including older people, migrants and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds) through partnerships between schools, business and the non-formal sector, including public libraries.
- Promoting European values, cultural heritage and heritage-related skills, common history, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion through education, non-formal and lifelong learning, in line with the objectives of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage.
- Lot 2 – Youth
- Promoting civic participation of young people by developing the role of volunteering for social inclusion;
- Preventing marginalisation and radicalisation leading to violent extremism of young people.
Grant Information
- The total budget available for the co-financing of projects under the present call is EUR 14.000.000 allocated as follows:
- Lot 1 – Education and training: 12.000.000 €
- Lot 2 – Youth: 2.000.000 €
- The maximum grant per project will be 500.000 €.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are public and private organisations active in the field of education, training and youth or other socio-economic sectors or organisations carrying out cross-sector activities (e.g. cultural organisations, civil society, sport organisations, recognition centres, chambers of commerce, trade organisations, etc.).
- National Agencies or other structures and networks of the Erasmus+ Programme, receiving a direct grant from the Commission in accordance with the legal basis of the Programme are not eligible to participate. Nevertheless, the legal entities hosting the Erasmus+ National Agencies or the structures and networks mentioned above, as well as entities affiliated to these legal entities, are considered eligible applicants.
- Legal entities having a legal or capital link with a beneficiary, which is neither limited to the project nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation may take part in the project as affiliated entities, and may declare eligible costs
- Only legal entities established in the following programme countries are eligible:
- the 28 Member States of the European Union;
- the EFTA/EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway;
- EU candidate countries: the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.
- For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the project. If the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the project period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible.
- The minimum partnership composition requirement for this call is 4 eligible organizations from 4 different programme countries.
How to Apply
The full Application Package must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.
For more information, please visit Social Inclusion and Common Values.