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Calls for project proposals
18.000 € Award call for social innovations in the field of Active and Healthy Ageing

12 June 2013

The King Baudouin Foundation in association with La Caixa Foundation & UniCredit Foundation has launched “Social Innovation in Ageing – The European Award”. The award will recognize individuals, organizations, and partnerships developing and implementing social innovations in the field of active and healthy ageing. The organisers state "social innovations respond to social problems and needs in a sustainable and socially accepted way through new or improved solutions".

Awardees will receive € 10.000 (1st place), € 5.000 (2nd place) or € 3.000 (3rd place), sponsored by the King Baudouin Foundation in association with La Caixa Foundation & Unicredit Foundation. The prizes are to be used by the social entrepreneurs to further develop, spread, and scale their solutions.

Details and the application form can be found here: www.changemakers.com/innovationinageing. Application is open until 15 July, 2013

 
 
Youth in the world: Cooperation with countries other than the neighbouring countries of the European Union

6 May 2013

The purpose of this call for proposals is to support projects, which promote cooperation in the youth sector between Youth in Action Programme Countries and Partner Countries other than those which are neighbours of the European Union. It is addressed to organisations working in the youth sector that are interested in running projects promoting cooperation in this field, involving youth workers and youth leaders, young people themselves and other actors involved in youth organisations and structures.

  • Deadline for submission of applications: 14 May 2013
  • Projects must start between 1 October 2013 and 31 December 2013
  • Duration minimum 6 months and maximum 12 months

More information here http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/youth/funding/2013/call_action_3_2_en.php

 
 
Call for Proposals for Social Policy Experimentation

The European Commission has announced a call for proposals for pilot social projects known as social policy experiments related to the implementation of the 2012 Annual Work Plan. Although the applicant must be a public authority/semi-state agency, NGOs can be among the partners so Eurodiaconia members interested in the call could contact a public authority to suggest they apply.

Social policy experiments must meet the following criteria:
− policy interventions bringing innovative answers to social needs,
− implemented on a small scale because of existing uncertainty as to their impact,
− in conditions which ensure the possibility of measuring their impact,
− in order to be repeated on a wider scale if the results prove convincing.

This call for proposals on social policy experimentations intends to improve the quality and effectiveness of social policies and to facilitate their adaptation to new social needs and societal challenges. Through this call, PROGRESS countries embarking on welfare reforms are offered financial support to experiment envisaged policy changes and reforms before implementing them, if successful, on a wider scale.

Specifically, they are looking for projects dealing with themes of promoting youth activation, quality childcare, and active and healthy ageing. Projects can request between 700 000 € and 1 000 000 €, and requested amount cannot exceed 80% of the total project budget. 1 000 000 € will only be awarded to projects in the theme of youth activation. Between four and six projects will be accepted.

Applicants are invited to submit a design for a potentially relevant policy intervention, including precise definitions of the goals as well as target audience, along with a concrete method of evaluation. Because the results they deliver are most reliable as regards the evaluation of the impacts of an intervention, preference will be given to randomized experimentation methods that randomly assign the members of a representative sample of the population targeted to either a treatment group or a control group. 

Interested? Read more about the project, requirements, and how to apply here.

The deadline for submissions is 15 February, 2013. If members are interested for partners on this project, please contact the office for help in coordinating involvement.

 
 
Social innovation competition for new solutions to create employment opportunities

10 October 2012

The European Commission launched a competition for socially innovative solutions aiming to help people move towards work or into new types of employment.  The competition is open to everyone (individuals, organisations or groups) established or resident in EU Member States. The judges are looking at the impact and scale of the proposed projects as well as their potential for systemic change.  Up to ten finalists will be invited to the award ceremony and three winners will be selected. The award ceremony will take place in May 2013 and each winner will receive a prize of 20,000 Euros to implement his or her idea.

If you have enquiries about how to enter the competition, please click This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

To submit your project ideas, please click here.
 
European Projects Award

26 September 2012

As part of the campaign “for a better society”, the European Projects Association asbl, in partnership with the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Academy for Education and Social Research, yearly rewards project ideas, ongoing projects and finished projects financed by the European Union.

The focus lies on innovative and beneficial projects that have a great impact on a specific community, territory and sector. This year’s ceremony of the European Projects Award will take place on 28th November 2012 in Brussels. In order to evaluate the project ideas, the jury will consider the most effective project partnership, the best innovative approach or methodology chosen and the best communication and dissemination plan.

To be eligible for the awarding procedure, you may register at the European Projects Association platform MyEuropa. By subscribing your projects in the Project Showroom, you increase your chances of finding a suitable project partner or receive help in project writing and implementation. The prizes offered to the winners include amongst others a course in Technologies for the Development of European Projects, sponsorship donations and a paid trip to Brussels for the Award Ceremony.

 
 
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