Online Info Day

The event covers the application procedure of the Civil Society Cooperation 2022 Calls (Education & Training and Youth) for operating grants under the Erasmus+: Key Action 3.

The Online Info Day runs online from 2pm to 5.30pm (Brussels time). The working language is English.

The Agenda is the following:

1.30-2pm: Participants login
2-2.15pm: Welcome from EACEA
2.15-2.45pm: Policy content for Key Action 3: “Support for Policy Reform, Civil Society Cooperation”
2.45-3.15pm: Call for E+ CSC Proposals 2022, what’s new?
3.15-3.45pm: Break – submission of online questions
3.45-4pm: Answers to questions received
4-5pm: EACEA tips and recommendations for preparing your E+ CSC application
5-5.30pm: Final questions and closing of the session

Topics

The CSC-EDU and CSC-Youth 2022 calls are calls for proposals for EU operating grants in the fields of education, training and youth under the Erasmus+ Programme. Operating grants provide general financial support to European organisations whose statutory activities serve the strategic objectives of EU policies:

• non-profit organisations;
• voluntary associations;
• foundations;
• NGOs or similar.

After a short presentation of the policy context and of the call itself there will be time for asking questions and receive some clarifications directly from EACEA.

How To Join

The Live Streaming on Civil Society Cooperation Call 2022 will go live on the EACEA website. No prior registration is necessary.

The recording of the Info Day together with presentations will be available on the EACEA’s website shortly after the event.

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L'articolo Civil Society Cooperation Call 2022 Erasmus KA3 Info Day proviene da Youth Networks.

Erasmus Plus KA3

Key Action 3 provides grants for a wide variety of actions aimed at stimulating innovative policy development, policy dialogue and implementation, and the exchange of knowledge in the fields of education, training and youth. The Calls for Proposals (managed by EACEA) cover one of the following fields:

• Civili society cooperation
• Initiatives for policy innovation
• European policy experimentations

Funds go to a range of calls for tender and restricted calls, such as studies and surveys, European policy tools, cooperation with international organisations, and stakeholders dialogue, policy and programme promotion.

Selection Results

If you applied to the Call “European Youth Together 2020”, you can find the results HERE.

If you did not apply… learn more about this and other European opportunities in Youthnetworks and don’t miss the next call for proposals!

L'articolo Selection Results: European Youth Together 2020 proviene da Youth Networks.

Erasmus Plus KA3

Key Action 3 provides grants for a wide variety of actions aimed at stimulating innovative policy development, policy dialogue and implementation, and the exchange of knowledge in the fields of education, training and youth. The Calls for Proposals (managed by EACEA) cover one of the following fields:

• Civili society cooperation
• Initiatives for policy innovation
• European policy experimentations

Funds go to a range of calls for tender and restricted calls, such as studies and surveys, European policy tools, cooperation with international organisations, and stakeholders dialogue, policy and programme promotion.

Selection Results

If you applied to this Call, you can find the results HERE.

If you did not apply… learn more about this and other European opportunities in Youthnetworks and don’t miss the next call for proposals!

L'articolo Selection Results: European Policy Experimentations (Erasmus+ KA3) proviene da Youth Networks.

This call, under the Erasmus+ Key Action 3, concerned transnational cooperation projects in the fields of general education, training and adult education.

In particular, the presented projects address the following general objectives:

• Disseminating and/or scaling up good practices on inclusive learning, social inclusion and common values.
• Developing and implementing innovative methods and practices to foster inclusive education and common values.
• Strengthen transnational networks of adult education providers by means of mutual learning, peer counselling, and capacity building

Here you can go to the SELECTION RESULTS.

L'articolo Selection Results – Social Inclusion and Common Values proviene da Youth Networks.

The main issue at stake is inclusion, in all of its shades: how to foster it in the democratic life of young Europeans, how to guarantee the participation of people with fewer opportunities in such process, which tools, activities and actions are better to implement. The main point of the dedicated report (“A sit at the table for everyone”, by Salto Youth resource center) is to propose effective actions, on the base of what has been done until now.

Engage

First of all, the main issue is to reach out to every young person. Here it plays a fundamental role the difference between youngsters with fewer opportunities and unorganised youngsters. The first group may be unorganised, or may be not; but, for sure, its members face difficult situations (due to physical disabilities, economical problems, geographical distance, lack of facilities, etc) that make harder for them to create and get involved, even after trying to organise themselves.

The second group instead may be composed by people in difficulty – or may be not. The only thing that characterizes the group is the fact that they are not properly ogranised under the umbrella of a private or semi-private body. The difference is important because it set the target of the inclusion mission: not the unorganised people that, potentially, have the possibility to stand up and fight for themselves; but rather the people with fewer opportunities, that are the ones who may not be in the practical contitions of make up a group and raise their voice.

Empower

People with fewer opportunities are the ones that need to be empowered most. The risk of marginalisation can be prevented by giving the people more at risk the right tools to be at the forefront of European policy making process. Fostering the democratic participation of young people in the political life of the community they live in can in fact be itself and instrument of social and civic development. But an interesting focus is where Europeans stakeholder can improve and the moments when it has not been done before. Where can the system be improved? How? The report tries to answer to these questions by proposing a set of services, activities, actions and awareness raising tools.

Connect

So, the strategy wants to get to a better involvement of young people by enhancing the already existing European programmes, together with the new ones – as the European Solidarity Corps intiative. The report provide four main strategies to foster inclusion:

• the combination between the three key actions of the Erasmus+ programme;
• reducing the complexity of the application process;
• more Key Actions (in order to overtake the idea of just the KA3 as the “participation Key Action”, ofr example);
• the creation of Youth Goals.

There ideas are described in more details at p. 11/12 of the report.

The report

The main goal of the report, released in the last weeks, is not only to raise awareness on the inclusion challeges that every organisation and project has to deal with – indeed, everyone is pretty aware of the situation. It focuses more on which actions and activities to enhance or implement to tackle the situation.

L'articolo European Youth Strategy 2020-27: new SALTO report on inclusion proviene da Youth Networks.

The review came after the adoption of the 2019 budget and the revised amount of internal and external assigned revenues. It will make new actions
possible, such as:

• public diplomacy initiatives in the framework of Erasmus+ KA1 and KA2 projects (among the external actions), that fall under the EU Global Strategy;
• the #BeActive award, in the framework of the Sport Activities, after the Tartu Call for an Healty Lifestyle launched in 2017;
• the network of national Erasmus+ Offices and Higher Education Reform Experts (HEREs), that will be implemented through grants awarded by exception to Calls for Proposal;
• the possibility to use funding instruments for external actions under heading 4 relating to the “international Student and Alumni Network Erasmus+“.

L'articolo Erasmus+, amendment of the Annual Work Programme 2019 proviene da Youth Networks.

Taking as example the Italian National Agency, what we could see is that there was an overall increase of budget in every field of the programme. The total budget allocated for Italy amounts to EUR 12.767.615, out of a total of EUR 3.019.506.507 (as per the Erasmus+ annual work programme 2019).

What is most interesting though is the breakdown of the fund by field. A part from the overall increase, in fact, we could observe an increase especially for the training courses. Whereas in 2018 the funds allocated accounted for EUR 1.602.711, in 2019 they will reach EUR 2.204.784 – an increase of over 37%.

Soon afterwards, the most relevant increase is the one relating to KA1 projects. In 2018, they were funded by EUR 5.634.305; in 2019, the sum amounts to 7.349.278 – over 30% more.

For youth exchanges, there was an increase of nearly 28%, passing from EUR 4.031.594 in 2018 to EUR 5.144.495 in 2019. Regarding all the rest of activities, the general increase stays slightly over 22%.

On average, we could estimate an increase of nearly 28% (27,85%, to be more accurate) from 2018 to 2019.

Whether this growth applies also all the other countries at the same rates, is of course up to the National Agencies – without prejudices to the limits set by the European Commission.

The criteria for setting out the available amount by country follows the guidelines as stated in the annual work programme (see p. 122), that are:

• a) Country Population (Eurostat latest update: 09/04/2018);
• b) Cost of Living (Eurostat latest update EU 28: 19/12/2017; latest update EU-3 (EFTA): 19/02/2018);
• c) Distance between capitals (Ephemeride latest available data; date of extraction 03/04/2014);
• d) Performance

L'articolo E+, relevant increase for training courses per country proviene da Youth Networks.