The Financial Mechanism Office
(“the FMO”) announces call no. 2020-1 seeking the
submission of proposals for grants for transnational projects under the EEA and
Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment (“the Fund”). The Financial Mechanism
Office (“the FMO”) announces call no. 2020-1 seeking the submission of
proposals for grants for transnational projects under the EEA and Norway Grants
Fund for Youth Employment (“the Fund”).
The Fund supports projects that promote
sustainable and quality youth employment in 18 beneficiary countries. It
operates on the basis of calls designed and launched by the Donor States
(Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) with support from their secretariat (the
FMO). The fund operator, a consortium consisting of Ecorys Polska and JCP Srl,
assists the FMO in implementing the Fund.
Outcomes
- Improved
employment situation of NEETs/target group
- Increased
participation in education and training of former NEETs/target group
- Increased
number of NEETs/target group experiencing social inclusion
- Innovative
approaches on lowering youth unemployment have been developed or
adopted
- Increased
transnational cooperation on labour market issues
- Increased
knowledge of the effects of employment initiatives targeting NEETs/target
group
- Increased
capacity on evaluating effects of employment initiatives for NEETs/target
group in research institutions
- Increased
use of impact studies among policymakers
- Increased
knowledge on effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on NEETs/target group
Funding Information
- The
available budget under this call is EUR 11.5 million.
- The
amount of grant assistance applied for within a project shall not be less
than EUR 1 million and not be more than EUR 2 million.
- The
final date for eligibility of expenditures for projects is 30th April 2024
at the latest.
Target Groups
Funding
is made available for initiatives seeking to ensure access to employment,
education or training for the following target groups:
- Young
people not in employment, education or training (NEET) who are between 25
and 29 years old and live in small towns, suburbs or in rural areas;
- Young
mothers not in employment, education or training (NEET) who are between 25
and 29 years old; and
- Long-term
unemployed people who are between 25 and 29 years old.
Young
NEETs who are not registered with the public employment services, are
low-skilled, have dropped out of school, and face multiple barriers to entering
the labour market (such as poverty, social exclusion, discrimination,
disability and/or poor mental health) shall enjoy the highest priority within
the target groups.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects
shall involve entities from at least two countries. Each project must
include one lead partner and at least one beneficiary partner.
- Eligible
lead partner: any eligible entity established in a Beneficiary State.
Beneficiary States of the EEA and Norway Grants are Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia; Eligible
beneficiary partner: any eligible entity established in a Beneficiary
State, Ireland, Italy or Spain.
- Expertise
partners can be any eligible entity established in Iceland, Liechtenstein
or Norway, in EU Member States or international organisations.
- Eligible
project partners may be entities, public or private, commercial or
non-commercial and non-governmental organisations, established as legal
persons.
Post Date - 02-Sep-2020