Europe for Citizens

EEDA7th September 2010

“EU funding forInclusion and integration -

Europe For Citizens”-

Jackie EveleighEast of England European Partnership

Europe for Citizens is a funding programme that basically provides a large number of small grants

Expected to fund in 2011:- 750 projects involving about 1 million citizensplus 51 operating grants and about 100 action grants

Socrates Leonardo

Youth Media Plus/ Media training

Culture E-Learning

Erasmus Mundus Citizenship

Actions to support « Civil society » bodies active at

European Level in the fields of Youth, Education and

Training, Culture, Town Twinning and Active Citizenship

Funding period : 2007-2013 Total Budget : € 215 m Flat rate financing being introduced

key words:-

Participation of citizens European identity Sense of belonging/ownership Tolerance and mutual understanding

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Active Citizens: Twinning (citizens meetings/ networks)

Active Civil Society: NGO’s projects / operating grants

All together for Europe : high visibility events; studies; information

Active remembrance: Preservation of memorials and memory

Priority One - The future of the European Union and its basic values Focus 2011: involving civil society in debate, reflection, action - as well as raising

awareness of the EUPriority Two - Active European citizenship: civic participation and democracy in

Europe Focus 2011: empowering citizens to play a full part in the democratic life of the EU

… fostering participation through volunteering linked to the European Year of volunteering; equal opportunities in political life.

Priority Three - Intercultural dialogue Focus 2011: raising awareness of and mobilising stakeholders, active in bridging

cultural barriers, to reflect on social cohesion and social innovation and take part in the European Year of volunteering

Priority Four - People’s well-being in Europe: employment, social cohesion and sustainable development & Priority Five - The Impact of EU policies in societies

Focus 2011: economic situation … involving citizens and civil society, including volunteers, in developing locally adapted solutions & exchanging experience on these in the European context…

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2 measures: 1. Town-twinning: citizens’ meetings / networkingMinimum grant € 2,000 & maximum € 20,000

◦ At least 2 eligible countries involved ◦ Bilateral (1+1): minimum 10 participants from each invited town ◦ Multilateral (1+2 or more): minimum 5 participants from each invited

town ◦ Existing or prospective town twinning agreement

2. Citizens’ projects and support measures Projects should employ innovative methods to bring together citizens from

different walks of life, who will collaborate on or debate common European issues at local and EU level.

A call for proposals funding citizens’ projects is due out in 2011. The deadline is the 1st of June 2011 for projects starting between 1 December 2011 and 28 February 2012.

Support to projectsSupport to projectsMust have at least one other

partner organisation from another participating country.

One annual deadline: 15 February for projects starting between 1 July and 1 December of that year.

The project must finish no later than 30 June of the following year (n+1).

The maximum duration of projects is 12 months.

Target group: European civil society

organisations including NGO’s, Associations, Foundations, Trade unions, Think tanks, etc.

types of support: Operating grants; Support to trans-national

projects (max. around 55,000 €).

Type of actions:

High visibility events: visibility of the programme and its objectives

Studies and opinion polls

Information tools, internet portal « citizenship », dissemination of the results

Projects of the following types may be supported:

Preservation of main sites and memorials associated with the mass deportations, concentration camps and extermination sites of Nazism, as well as the archives for keeping alive the memory of the victims and of those who rescued people from the holocaust;

Commemoration of the victims of mass exterminations and mass deportations associated with Stalinism, as well as the preservation of the memorials and archives.

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http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/citizenship/index_en.htm

Mailbox: eacea-p7@ec.europa.eu or eacea-p7-civilsociety@ec.europa.eu

: Executive agency Education, audiovisual & culture (EACEA) Unit Citizenship (P7) BOUR 00/13 Avenue du Bourget, 1B-1140 Brussels

General: ++32.2.299.11.11 Civil society: ++32.2.296.33.80 / 299.79.78 / 298.16.04 Town-twinning hotline : ++32.2.295.26.85 (Tuesday-

Thursday from 9.30 to 12.30) Citizenship Fax : ++ 32 (0)2.296.23.89

Thank you!