EU Call for Proposals: Facilitating Social Inclusion of Roma

Deadline: 22 March 2019

The European Union is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Facilitating Social Inclusion of Roma”.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is improving the Roma condition by targeted measures aiming at decreasing the gap in the quality of housing and in access to social and health care services, between the communities inhabited by Roma and the other communities or territorial units.
• The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals are:
  • Improve housing conditions of deprived Roma living in poor and/or informal settlements in municipalities through holistic and participatory approaches, and
  • Increased and improved access of Roma living poor and/or informal settlements to socio-educational services and health care services for Roma persons

Size of Grants

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• minimum amount: EUR 350,000
• maximum amount: EUR500,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be non-profit-making and
    • be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, public sector operator, local authority, international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by the rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation and
    • be established at least 2 years before the call is launched, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or in a Member State of the European Union or country covered by the Regulation 236/2014 laying down common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union’s instruments for financing external action
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
  • Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if they are in any of the situations
• Co-applicant(s)
  • The lead applicant must act together with a minimum of one (1) co-applicant and a maximum of two (42) co-applicants as specified hereafter. It is hugely highly recommended that at minimum one co-applicant is local self-government unit.
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
    • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link. This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
      • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
        • Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
          • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
          • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
          • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
        • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

How to Apply

• The application procedure consists of two phases:
  • Concept notes
  • Full applications
• The concept note together with the declaration by the lead applicant must be submitted at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2DW5QxN and download the guidelines.