How To Manage European Projects in Ukraine and Russia

The European Commission has provided the National Agencies responsible for the management of the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes with the first useful indications for the management of the critical issues following the crisis in Ukraine.
The Agencies can apply the “force-majeure clause” in mobility projects involving Ukraine and Russia.
While respecting the general legal framework of the Programmes, the beneficiaries are therefore entitled to

1. cancel, postpone or relocate planned activities in Ukraine and Russia;
2. cancel, postpone or move incoming mobility activities of participants from Ukraine and Russia.

Activities and Projects in Ukraine and Russia

• Ongoing mobilities to Ukraine or Russia involving participants from Member States or Associated Third Countries: the force-majeure clause may be invoked to prematurely terminate activities taking place in Ukraine or Russia.
  Sending organisations should support participants returning early from these countries by checking with the host organisation/body whether they can continue the activities in virtual mode.
  Return costs will be justified and charged as exceptional costs, if duly reported to the Agency. In case no exceptional costs are foreseen in the project budget, participating organisations can draw on the funds under the heading Organisational support.
• Incoming mobility to Member States and Associated Third Countries involving Ukrainian participants: beneficiaries are encouraged to verify the possibility of prolonging the stay of the Ukrainian participants in the ongoing activities in accordance with the rules of the Programmes. To this end, they may also receive further support and advice from the National Agencies in their relations with the authorities.
• Planned activities in Ukraine: beneficiaries of planned mobility projects in Ukraine are invited to check alternative options (such as changing the country of destination) or, if possible, to transform the mobility activity into a hosting one (hosting Ukrainian participants).

To request support or clarifications, to send communications on projects and activities related to the two programmes Erasmus+|Youth and European Solidarity Corps, you can contact your National Agency. Each Agency is monitoring each specific situation in cooperation with the other European agencies and competent authorities.

We will be keeping this post up-to-date if anything new comes up.

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Erasmus+ Writing Challenge

The Erasmus+ Writing Challenge is a 14-day FREE online challenge to help you easily write your first Erasmus+ Youth KA1 project and submit it for European funding.

It runs on the following dates: from April 12th to April 26th 2021. The hosting organiser is Youth Academy.

Features of the Challenge

The challenge goes with the support of:

• Daily Videos: based on years of personal experience in grant writing and European funding, Youth Academy splits the project writing process into 14 steps. They will post a short daily explanation video in Erasmus+ Youth Academy FB community at 19.00 CET from 12th to 26th of April.
• Home Tasks: every day, after each video, you will receive a small home task. You will need around 30 minutes to complete it, and at the end of the challenge you’ll have a fully developed project idea ready to be submitted for May 11th deadline.
• Useful links and materials: a daily email sent to all registered participants will contain a reminder, useful links and materials. In this case not only you won’t miss a video, but also will receive extra support to help you complete a daily project writing task.
• Supportive Community: you don’t need to do it alone. In Erasmus+ Youth Academy you’ll complete the challenge day-by-day with other participants (or your own team), as well as share your successes and ask questions to challenge facilitators.

Participants

The writing challenge targets specifically:

• Youth Leaders (who already participated in Youth Exchanges or training courses before, and want to organise their own project but don’t know where to start);
• NGO Leaders (who are looking at the European grants to scale their activities and increase impact, and would like their employees/volunteers to learn the grant writing process);
• Project Managers (who successfully managed local or international projects but never/unsuccessfully applied with their personal ideas in the past and now want to learn it the right way);
• Future Grant Writers (who like shaping meaningful ideas into projects and want to learn it professionally to become an in-demand grant writer and support NGOs all over Europe).

Schedule

The challenge goes under the supervision of the following facilitators:

Anna Korjakina, Grantwriter of projects for NGOs in Europe and the CIS, NFE trainer and mentor.
Yulia Markos, Strategic leader at Synergy Bulgaria, project coordinator, coach and mentor.

Registration and contacts

For any question you may have, please contact the organiser to the following email: info@youth.academy.

To register, fill out this form.

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L'articolo How To Write A Project: Erasmus+ Writing Challenge proviene da Youth Networks.