EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

Knowledge Alliances are transnational, structured and result-driven projects, notably between higher education and business. Knowledge Alliances are open to any discipline, sector and to cross-sectoral cooperation. The partners share common goals and work together towards mutually beneficial results and outcomes.

Call on refugee and migrant artists to submit their artwork about forced displacement of people due to wars and violence in the broadest sense. Artwork may focus on any dimension of migration experiences, including border crossings, settlement, new lives elsewhere, challenges, or hopes and dreams.

With this exhibition, we aim to foster humanitarian values, social inclusion and empathy in our societies.  Most importantly we want to provide an opportunity to look at migration experiences from the perspective of refugee and migrant artists. 

ARTISTS WITH A MIGRANT BACKGROUND INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN OUR EXHIBITION ARE REQUESTED TO SEND US THE FOLLOWING BY OCTOBER 30, 2019.

• A short CV with information about your main exhibitions and a short bio.

• A selection of a maximum of 10 artworks (this can include a combination of different art techniques, including photography) in digital format. Pictures taken of the artworks should have a DPI of at least 300. All submitted work must have been created by the artist after 2010.

PRIORITIES OF THE YEAR, OBJECTIVES PURSUED AND EXPECTED RESULTS

Facilitating the access of consumers to alternative dispute resolution schemes compliant with Directive 2013/11/EU9
including through measures for vulnerable consumers, developing the networking of national alternative dispute resolution entities, promoting monitoring activities on the functioning and the effectiveness of dispute resolution mechanisms.

Eligible activities

The grants can support a wide range of activities such as promotion and communication, staff training, creation of online interfaces and monitoring tools, networking tools and the
organisation of specific workshops.

Deadline:4/12/2018

This call is intended to provide a financial support to finance pilot Joint Action Plans (JAPs), i.e.
- a set of complementary actions which are carried out by at least two organisations under the responsibility of the beneficiary with the aim to address a challenge identified in the pilot JAP areas (see below)
- based on an intervention logic, providing a logical link between the development needs, objectives, outputs and results with milestones and targets, and (types of) projects envisaged
- with a reimbursement of costs on the basis of actually achieved outputs and/or results.

The mix of output and/or results indicators may differ between and within proposals. It is possible for some project costs to be proposed to be reimbursed primarily based on actually achieved outputs, and for others to be reimbursed primarily based on actually achieved results, or a combination of both.

Pilot JAP areas:
The pilot JAPs to be financed under the call shall aim
- to support the achievement of a Member State’s Country Specific Recommendations2 relevant to the investment priorities listed under Article 3 (a) to (c) of Regulation (EU) 1304/2013
- and/or to support the Commission’s policy initiatives relating to Long Term Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, Integration of Migrants and the Skills Agenda.

Deadline: 19/07/2018 

This call aims to ensure the continuity of the preparatory action for the third year.
The objective of the action is to test the feasibility of an intra-EU job mobility scheme for the age group above 35 years, with a particular focus on unemployed citizens, including long-term unemployed. Similar to the targeted mobility scheme "Your first EURES job"(YFEJ) helping young jobseekers under 35s, “Reactivate” intends to help adults to find employment or traineeship opportunities in other EU countries and foster their full integration into the labour market.The action aims to improve the conditions for jobseekers and workers to exercise their right of freedom of movement across the EU and to address labour markets' imbalances and skills shortages.

Deadline:05 September 2018 Swim, Courier and Post: 24:00
Brussels time (CET)
Hand deliveries 16:00 Brussels 

Specific Challenge:

Improve the preparedness of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism to respond to disaster risks.

Enhance knowledge of effective preparedness and through the EC Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre.

Develop cooperation across countries on challenges in the field of civil protection and/or marine pollution and enhance the awareness of professionals and volunteers.

Complement existing cooperation frameworks/instruments provided by relevant EU macro-regional strategies.

Support a closer partnership between the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and IPA II beneficiaries not participating in the Mechanism or European Neighbourhood Policy countries.

Deadline: 25 April 2018 17:00:00

The general objective is to contribute to the reduction of work-related MSDs in the EU, by promoting better enforcing requirements and reducing exposure to related risk factors. The campaign should address the importance of implementing a holistic approach for the prevention of work-related MSDs, taking into account aspects such as risk assessment, health surveillance, training, employee information
and consultation, ergonomic work systems and the prevention of fatigue.

Building on the achievements and success of the EU’s past flagship research and innovation programmes, the Commission proposes a budget of €100 billion for 2021-2027 for Horizon Europe and the Euratom Research and Training Programme.

SIMPLER RULES, LESS RED TAPE FOR BENEFICIARIES

- Continued principle of a single set of rules with further improvements
- Stable funding rates
- Further simplification of funding model
- Increased use of simplified forms of grants where appropriate (including lump sums)
- More dissemination and exploitation of research results

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Scope:

Proposals should take stock of the long-term effects of migration at EU aggregate and cross-national level on economic growth and productivity, employment levels and wages, entrepreneurship, and fiscal and welfare impacts. They should analyse policies related to the integration of migrants, including refugees. Particular attention should be paid to gender and vulnerable groups such as unaccompanied children and stateless persons. Attention should be also paid to economic, human capital and cultural factors in relation to the integration outcomes of different groups of migrants and the social impact of segregation. Furthermore, proposals should analyse the local and interactional dimension of integration processes and their effects on the provision of local services, workplace conditions, productivity and innovation. They should comparatively examine integration policies (labour market, education, health, civil rights, social welfare, housing, family policies, etc.), and the role of transnational institutions and networks in shaping integration at a local scale. In addition, they should estimate the efficiency, effectiveness and social impact of such policies and highlight best practices and relevant benchmarks, building on the extensive knowledge that already exists in the EU[1]. Finally, an understanding of past and historical experiences of integrating migrant communities, and what these can tell us about current challenges, should also be assessed. Interdisciplinary research with combined insights from disciplines such as sociology, economics, history, anthropology, cultural studies and psychology among others is needed.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU in the order of EUR 3 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Deadline: 14.03.2019

1. Priorities

The call is aimed at supporting projects focusing on preventing and combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, by:

- improving responses to hate crime and hate speech, including but not limited to means of criminal law;

- supporting victims of hate crime and hate speech;

- preventing hatred by fostering tolerance and social cohesion.

Projects may, in this respect, be targeted to address the specificities of particular forms of intolerance, such as Antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred, homophobia and transphobia, antigypsyism, xenophobia and anti-migrant hatred, Afrophobia, hate crimes against persons with disabilities.

Deadline:04.10.2018

Main  objective

Provide specific operating grants for the year 2019 to
European networks having signed a Framework Partnership Agreements 2018-2021 with the European Commission. 

The specific operating grants will enhance the capacities of the networks to contribute actively to the development and implementation of all relevant policies. 

Objectives – Priorities
The objective of the Call is to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities, to ensure that people with disabilities can fully enjoy their rights.

Deadline: 20/09/2018

Swim, Courier and Post : 24:00 Brussels' time (CET)
Hand deliveries  16:00 Brussels' time (CET)

Scope:

Proposals should examine the processes and content of the emerging international protection system, e.g. following the United Nations commitment for the adoption of a global asylum compact as well as its implementation in comparative perspective, with special focus on the EU’s role and engagement. They should examine how sharing responsibilities, transferring skills and capabilities, can be organised as well as the compatibility of the emerging global asylum regime with international law, including international conventions on refugees and human rights. The EU arrangements with refugees' origin and transit countries should be assessed. Proposals should advise on the future development of asylum policies and their implementation both globally and within the EU, also addressing issues around both gender issues and equality. 

Deadline:14 March 2019 17:00:00

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Specific Challenge:

The present call for proposals is to co-fund exercise projects aimed at assessing and improving Union Civil Protection Mechanism response to major emergencies.

Deadline:15/05/2018

Scope:

proposals are sought for cutting-edge high-risk / high-impact interdisciplinary research with all of the following essential characteristics ("FET gatekeepers"):

• Radical vision: the project must address a clear and radical vision, enabled by a new technology concept that challenges current paradigms. In particular, research to advance on the roadmap of a well-established technological paradigm, even if high-risk, will not be funded.
• Breakthrough technological target: the project must target a novel and ambitious science-to-technology breakthrough as a first proof of concept for its vision. In particular, blue-sky exploratory research without a clear technological objective will not be funded.
• Ambitious interdisciplinary research for achieving the technological breakthrough and that opens up new areas of investigation. In particular, projects with only low-risk incremental research, even if interdisciplinary, will not be funded.