The Social Innovation Competition will award three prizes of €50,000 each; besides winners, the 30 best participants and a larger group of innovators will also receive support in terms of mentoring and networking.
The Competition is open to anyone in the EU or in countries associated to Horizon 2020 (individuals or legal entities, except public administrations).
Cyprus Youth Council announces call for 5 new members of the Pool of Trainers of CYC. Those who are interested please send your CV and the application form attached to the email address [email protected] until Sunday, 5 April 2015.
The Pool of Trainers of CYC is mainly comprised by trainers from CYC member organizations. The team’s methods in informal education which are implemented by non governmental youth organizations. The trainers work with issues of volunteerism, youth empowerment, peace, cross-cultural learning, human rights, environment, ecology, diversity, antiracism, creativity and social integration.
1. What does the Pool of Trainers do?
• Develops trainings of competences in several topics related with youth
• Facilitates youth events, seminars and conferences
• Offers consultancy in youth matters in accordance with their competences
• Follows closely and contributes to the development of programs and policies of youth trainings in Cyprus
• Contributes to the promotion and recognition of Non Formal Education in Cyprus.
2. Trainers profile
• They are active in youth work for at least 2 years.
• They have organised at least 1 training for trainers
• They have experience in Non Formal Education methods
• They have written recommendation letter from a youth NGO member of Cyprus Youth Council
In case you have any questions please contact:
Iliana Petridou: 96496426
Giorgos Polykarpou: 99578688
Organisations wishing to apply for ‘Support to Literary translation projects’ are invited to submit applications online by Wednesday 4 February 2015, 12:00 noon (midday, Brussels time) to the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in Brussels: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/eacea-site/files/documents/guidelines-call-for-proposals-eacea-46-2014-literary-translation.pdf
Eligible applicants
Applicant organisations must be publishers or publishing houses active in the publishing sector. Proof of this activity will be required (such as for instance statutes).
When submitting their application, applicant organisations must be in a position to demonstrate their existence as a legal person for at least 2 years on the date of the deadline for submission referred to in section 3 of these guidelines.
Natural persons may not apply for a grant.
The competition for next year’s European Charlemagne Youth Prize was launched on Tuesday, 2 December. Now in its eighth year, the prize is awarded to young people who have developed projects to foster understanding between people from different European countries. The deadline for submissions is 2 February 2015.
The Charlemagne Youth Prize is organised jointly by the European Parliament and the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation in Aachen and awarded each year for projects ran by people aged between 16 and 30.
The winning projects should provide models for young people living in Europe and offer practical examples of Europeans living together as one community.
Past winners include youth exchange programmes and artistic and internet projects with a European dimension.
Prize money of €10,000
The three winning projects (chosen from the 28 projects nominated by national juries in the individual EU member states) will be awarded €5,000, €3,000, and €2,000 respectively. Their representatives will be invited to visit the European Parliament in Brussels or Strasbourg in the autumn.
Representatives of the 28 national winning projects will be invited to the Charlemagne Youth Prize award ceremony and the International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen award ceremony during a four-day trip to Aachen in May 2015.
2014 winners
Our Europe, a Danish travel project, was awarded the first prize at the 2014 Charlemagne Youth Prize ceremony in Aachen University on 27 May 2014. The second prize went to the JouwDelft & Co youth congress from The Netherlands and the third to the Employment4U, a training project from Cyprus. Representatives of the three winning projects were invited to Brussels to meet President Schulz and other Members of the European Parliament on 1 and 2 December 2014.
Timeline:
Contact for press queries:
Constanze Beckerhoff – [email protected] – 32 2-2844302 – 0032 498-983550
Contact for general queries: [email protected]
Twitter: @EUYouthPrize #ECYP2014
Links:
The European Charlemagne Youth Prize website
http://www.charlemagneyouthprize.eu/en/introduction.html
Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen
We would like to inform you that Europe Direct Information Centre in Larnaca has moved in the restored building of the former Ottoman Bank (Square King’s Paul & Zenon Kitieos no. 1, compared Pierides Museum and Pavilion CTO). For more information please contact on the phone number 24620993.
Abstract: The EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) Awards aim to reward effective eco-innovations supporting improvements in environmental performance
Type of communication tool: Environmental Award
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Relevant for: EDIC, EDC
Target group: Authorities, Companies and NGOs interested in EMAS
Languages available: English
Link(s): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/emas/emasawards/
EMAS – The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme of DG Environment – has now opened applications for the EMAS awards. Deadline to apply is 30 January 2015. Registered organisations can send their application and competent bodies can nominate private and public organisations for the awards. The application form and further information regarding eligibility and evaluation are now available. The awards were created to establish a platform facilitating dialogue between key stakeholders and as an opportunity for EMAS registered organisations to share and promote their best practices.
Ph.D. grants are available for nationals of most EU member states. These are EU member states that have signed the EUI Convention. A limited number of additional grants are available for non EU member states.
http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/DoctoralProgramme/Index.aspx
CONTACTS
EUI Admissions Office
Email: [email protected]
Tel: + 39 055 4685 373
Two themes:
THEME A – Cultural & Industrial heritage products (Topic ENT-05-2014)
THEME B – Accessible Tourism (Topic ENT-06-2014)
Deadline: 21/10/2014
For more information visit the official website http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=7700&tpa=0&tk=&lang=en
Δικαιούχοι:
-Διεθνείς μη κυβερνητικοί οργανισμοί νέων ή διεθνείς μη κυβερνητικά δίκτυα νέων.
-Εθνικός ή τοπικός μη-κυβερνητικός οργανισμός νέων
-Μη-κυβερνητικές δομές νέων που ασχολούνται με θέματα νέων.
The European Youth Foundation (EYF) is a fund established by the Council of Europe to provide financial support for European youth activities.
It aims to encourage co-operation amongst young people in Europe by providing financial support to youth activities. It concerns activities, which serve the promotion of peace, understanding and co-operation in a spirit of respect for human rights, democracy, tolerance and solidarity.
The EYF provides financial support to the following types of activity undertaken by youth NGOs or networks, or by other NGOs involved in the areas of youth work relevant to the Council of Europe’s youth policies and work:
– educational, social, cultural and humanitarian activities of a European character
– activities aiming at strengthening peace and co-operation in Europe
– activities designed to promote closer co-operation and better understanding among young people in Europe, particularly by developing the exchange of information
– activities intended to stimulate mutual aid in Europe and in the developing countries for cultural, educational and social purposes
– studies, research and documentation on youth matters.
The EYF may support the following operations:
A. International activity – including meetings of young people or youth leaders in Europe in order to promote participation and intercultural learning. The EYF will cover up two-thirds of the total cost. Maximum grant: ? 20,000.
B. Annual work plan – including a series of activities for the following year(s), international activities, pilot activities and also publication (including web development). These activities would be part of and support your NGO’s strategy or action plan for the coming years. Maximum grant: ? 50,000.
C. Structural grant – The European Youth Foundation may, on an annual basis, grant international non-governmental youth organisations or networks a contribution to cover part of the general administrative costs involved in running their activities at European level. Maximum annual grant: ? 25,000.
D. One-off structural grant – The Foundation may also contribute to the administrative costs of regional networks, in order to help them to establish a European structure. Maximum one-off grant: ? 10,000.
E. Pilot activity – is an intervention addressing a specific societal challenge linked to the local context in which it takes place. Maximum grant: ? 10,000.
Applicants must represent either an international non-governmental youth organisation or network, a national or local non-governmental youth organisation or network, or non-governmental structures involved in youth work, from the Council of Europe member states. A list of the members can be found here.
Deadlines:
1 April 2014 for:
– International activities taking place between 1 January and 30 June 2015
– Work plans for 2015
1 October 2014 for:
– International activities taking place between 1 April and 31 December 2015
– Work plans for 2015
– One-off structural grants for 2015 (regional network)
1 October 2015 for:
– Structural grant for 2016-2017 (international NGOs/networks)
There are no fixed deadlines for pilot project applications, which may be submitted at least three months prior to the beginning of the activity in order to allow a proper assessment.
Key documents
European Youth Foundation – Grants
internet: http://www.coe.int/web/european-youth-foundation/grants
Contacts
EYF European Youth Foundation
Directorate of Youth and Sport
Council of Europe
30 rue Pierre de Coubertin
F-67000 Strasbourg
phone: +33 3 88 41 20 19
fax: +33 3 90 21 49 64
email: [email protected]
The overall objective of this contract is to contribute to the improvement of European-level policy development and cooperation in education and training through an advisory Network of experts working on the social dimension of education and training.
http://ec.europa.eu/education/calls/tender-08-2014_en.htm
Deadline: 8/9/2014
