Deadline: 30-Jul-21
Wehubit is seeking proposals for EdTech – Use of Education Technology to Improve Quality and Continuity of Teaching and Learning to increase the use and access to digital solutions offering better living conditions.
The specific objective of the call for proposals is to strengthen digital solutions in order to foster the continuity and quality of education.
Types of Activities
By way of example, they list the types of activities that are eligible, provided that it contributes to the achievement of the outcomes and the specific objective of the action:
- Implementation of digital solutions: geolocation technology, databases, big data, virtual reality, blockchain, gamification, social networks, etc.
- Capacity development: strengthening staff skills in the action’s technological and digital domain.
- Product development: adaptation of digital products in view of a development on a larger scale.
- Quality: implementation of quality improvement and control systems.
- Digital skills: improving people’s skills in using digital tools and technologies.
- Data systems: using digital technology to improve the collection, management and use of data.
- Institutional technical assistance: supporting laws and regulations that improve access to digital technologies or their use.
Funding Information
- The total indicative sum available under this Call for Proposals is 1.500.000 EUR. The contracting authority reserves the right to not award all of the available funds.
- Grants value
- Any grant application under this Call for Proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- Minimum amount: 200.000,00 EUR
- Maximum amount: 350.000,00 EUR
- The term of an action may not be less than 12 months or exceed 18 months.
Eligible Countries: The actions must be implemented in one of the 14 following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant
To be eligible for grants, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions:
- be a legal person; and
- be a public actor or be a private non-profit actor; and
- Your organisation (or your co-applicant) needs to be established or represented in the country where the action is implemented. To them it means that you are locally registered with the authorities, that you have local staff and that you are directly implementing activities in the country; and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and not be acting as an intermediary; and
- have already managed a grant (of public funds) amounting to 40% of the amount applied for. A certificate of satisfactory performance signed by the donor is mandatory and constitutes proof thereof; and
- dispose of financial statements certified by an independent body (auditor). Those statements must not be older than 2 years.
Co-applicant(s)
- The co-applicant(s) shall participate in specifying the implementation of the action, and the costs that they incur shall be eligible in the same way as those incurred by the applicant.
- The co-applicant(s) must satisfy the admissibility criteria which apply to the applicant itself, except that:
- they don’t need to prove that they have already managed a grant amounting to 40% of the amount applied for;
- they don’t need to be established or represented in the country where the action is implemented if it is the case for the lead applicant.
- The co-applicant(s) must sign the Mandate statement.
- Co-applicants cannot be added or removed in-between the 2 Rounds.
- If the grants are awarded to them, any co-applicants will become the beneficiaries of the action, with the Contracting-Beneficiary.
For more information, visit
https://www.wehubit.be/en/financing-instruments