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Call for Proposals: "THE EEA AND NORWAY GRANTS FUND FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT"

Call for proposals

“THE EEA AND NORWAY GRANTS FUND FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT”

Objective and description


A new call for proposals has been published by The EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021 under the “GRANTS FUND FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT”.

The EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021 are set up to contribute to the reduction of social and economic disparities in Europe. Recognising the strong link between social and economic equality and participation in the labour market, measures addressing youth employment are encouraged throughout the various programmes of the EEA and Norway Grants.

 

In addition, the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment specifically aims to support transnational project initiatives that promote sustainable and quality youth employment. The focus on transnational cooperation reflects the view that unemployment among youth is a common European challenge and common European solutions should therefore be explored.

 

This call for transnational projects addressing youth unemployment has three principal support areas:

·         Innovation and exploration.

Under this area the Fund seeks projects that focus on new, experimental solutions to combat unemployment among the target groups and increase the number of sustainable jobs for young people.

·         Transfer of know-how and good practice.

Under this support area the Fund seeks projects that focus on transferring know-how and good practice on youth employment initiatives across European countries, with the ultimate goal of creating more quality jobs and lower unemployment rates among youths within the target groups listed

·         Analysis and research.

Under this support area the Fund will support transnational research networks that share learning (ideas, theories, practices and experiences) on how to evaluate and perform impact studies of initiatives aiming to address youth employment in the eligible countries.

 

The target group of the Fund is young people between 15 and 29, with a special focus on the 25-29 year olds. Projects that are are of particular interest to the Fund develop solutions for:

·         the long-term unemployed;

·         discouraged people who have stopped looking for work,

·         inactive women caring for children or incapacitated adults,

·         ethnic minorities including Roma,

·         asylum-seekers,

·         the low-skilled,

·         people with mental health issues and

·         the disabled

 

This call seeks to complement existing EU funding on youth employment initiatives. Projects within areas that commonly do not receive EU funding are therefore particularly welcome.

 

The Fund aims to advance new and innovative solutions that focus on the specific needs of the target groups listed above. Activities and outputs within projects may happen on several levels, both systemic (e.g. developing formal educational modules; develop systematic cooperation with non-traditional stakeholders) and personal (e.g. attending to the individual needs of the members of the target group)

 

Eligible activities


Suggested measures include but are not limited to:

·         Efficient practices that develop sustainable jobs;

·         Innovative solutions on how to prepare and train young people for structural labour market changes like digitalisation and smart automation;

·         Widening involvement of stakeholders, including the social services, child/youth services, medical and psychiatric professionals, parents, etc.;

·         Involvement of non-traditional employers and sectors, for instance NGOs, civil society organisations and SMEs;

·         Outreach strategies;

·         The development or involvement of social entrepreneurship/enterprises;

·         Innovative start-up support to young entrepreneurs;

·         Community-based approaches;

·         Family learning (learning activities that involve all family members, where learning outcomes are intended for all, contributing to a culture of learning in the family);

·         New mentoring and coaching approaches;

·         Development of new flexible solutions, e.g. in entry qualification requirements to educational

·         institutions or in work contracts for apprentices;

·         Experimental pedagogy and didactics;

·         Innovative focus on employability and soft skills development;

·         Mixing informal, non-formal and formal learning arenas;

·         Innovative apprenticeship modules and work-based learning;

·         Innovative mobility measures and job placements; and

·         Experimental gender mainstreaming strategies.

 

Eligible applicants


Projects shall involve entities from at least two countries, including at least one Beneficiary State.

 

Beneficiary States are: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Portugal.

 

Each project must include one lead partner and at least one beneficiary partner.

·         Eligible lead partner: any eligible entity established in a Beneficiary State;

·         Eligible beneficiary partner: any eligible entity established in a Beneficiary State, Ireland, Italy or Spain;

·         Expertise partners can be any eligible entity established in a Donor State, in a non-eligible EU Member State or international organisations.

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Eligible project partners may be entities, public or private, commercial or non-commercial and nongovernmental organisations, established as legal persons, including but not limited to:

·         Municipalities, organisations owned or partly owned by municipalities, associations of municipalities;

·         Regions, organisations owned or partly owned by regions; associations of regions;

·         Organisational units of central government, organisations partly funded by central government units, state enterprises, state organisations;

·         Public and private education and research institutions;

·         Civil society organisations, non-profit organisations, social entreprises, interest associations of legal persons, foundations and endowment funds;

·         Commercial companies;

·         Cooperatives (manufacturing, housing, consumer);

·         Business support organisations (incubators, start-up centres, etc.); and

·         Social partners (trade unions, sector associations, employer associations, chambers of commerce and industry).

 

Budget


The available budget under this call is EUR 60.61 million.

 

The amount of grant assistance applied for within a project shall not be less than EUR 1 million.

 

The project consortium is required to provide project co-financing. The grant cannot constitute more than 85% of the total eligible costs of the project. The required co-financing may be provided by one or more partners, as decided among themselves.


Deadline for proposals’ submission


The deadline of this call is 1 August 2017 12:00 (noon CET).


There is no maximum project duration foreseen in the call for proposals. Expenditures incurred by the project partners shall be eligible as of the date on which the Financial Mechanism Committee decides to award the project grant, while the final date for eligibility of expenditures for projects is 30 April 2024 at the latest.

 

This call follows a two-step evaluation procedure. In the first step, only concept notes shall be submitted for evaluation. Successful applicants from the first step will be invited to submit a full

project application. The concept note shall be submitted electronically via the fund operator’s system (EGREG).

 

Further information


Please find attached the call documents.

 

Questions may be sent electronically by e-mail to the following account: eeagrants@ecorys.com

 

More information: http://eeagrants.org/What-we-do/The-EEA-and-Norway-Grants-Fund-for-Youth-Employment

 

Kind regards,

Flora

 

Flora Stavropoulou
Intern

European Office of Cyprus

Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor

B-1000, Brussels

Tel/Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85

E-mail: eoc.brussels2@ucy.ac.cy

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE GREEK TRANSLATION IS PROVIDED AT REQUEST OF ANY INTERESTED MEMBER (based on the decision of 22.12.2016 of the EOC Administrative Council).

 


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