Calls for proposals

One of the fundamental issues to tackle in order to reach gender equality is the persistence of gender stereotypes, which start from a very young age onwards and keep on influencing choices with regard to employment and combination of work and private life. 

This call for proposals shall focus on actions in order to raise awareness and tackle gender stereotypes in education, in particular in early childhood education and care and in schools, and in educational and occupational choices in a digitalised world.

Activities shall include:

1. Tackling gender stereotypes in education and early childhood care

• activities tackling negative attitudes and stereotypes with regard to gender roles in early childhood education and care systems, and educational and career choices;
• awareness-raising, education and empowerment activities; in particular awareness-raising activities for professionals of pre-school and school systems on an education, work and life free of stereotypes, including gender roles and attitudes towards domestic work, care, work and public life.

2. Tackling gender stereotypes in educational and career choices in a digitalised world

• activities focusing on the impact of digitalisation on career and professional choices, highlighting its opportunities and tackling potential hindrances as well as mitigating the risks that certain digitalised instruments bring about in intensifying gender stereotypes (e.g. gender bias through use of algorithms for recruitment procedures);
• exchange of good practice, mutual learning, seminars, in particular, activities promoting good practice examples;
• training activities for professionals of childhood care in the education sector and in the world of work; or with regard to overcoming gender stereotypes and roles in early childhood environments and in a digitalised world.

More details on the European Commission's website

This Erasmus+ call will support projects that either:

1. help to establish new national or regional networks of adult education providers; or
2. provide capacity-building support to existing national or regional networks of adult education providers; or
3. strengthen existing transnational networks of adult education providers.

These projects should help build up the capacity of Adult Education providers to implement European policy on adult learning at national and regional levels.

Proposals should foster European cooperation between different providers (and relevant stakeholders) on either:

a) Specific themes in adult learning, or
b) Specific innovative pedagogical approaches in adult learning, or
c) Specific adult education learner groups, or
d) Specific organisational management themes, or
e) Specific models of Adult Education, or
f) Adult education generally.

An online information session is planned for 15 November. 

More details available on the page of the call

As part of the European Partnership on Active and Halthy Ageing (EIP AHA), the European Commission has launched its 3^rd Call for Reference Sites. The Call aims to provide regions and areas across Europe with the opportunity to identify and explore proven examples of innovation and become exemplars of good policy and practice related to active and healthy ageing. 

For more information about the Call and on how to apply, please visit this page

The objective of this call is to enlarge the ACTIVAGE ecosystem with mature deployment sites from cities / regions, providing Internet of Things - based services to their citizens.

More information here

This Programme Guide is a tool for anybody who would like to have a thorough knowledge of what the Erasmus+ Programme is about. Erasmus+ is the EU's programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.

Access the guide here

The objective of ACTIVAGE open call is to implement and deploy mature Internet of Things (IoT) solutions using the current European deployment sites’ IoT ecosystem for testing, demonstration and initial market take-up. 

The call targets European SMEs, Mid-Caps and Start-ups legally registered in a member state of the European Union or in a Horizon 2020 associated country.

Budget: 600.000€, with a maximum of 10 projects funded.

More information 

This call for projects is launched by the Croatian Foundation Zajednički put, a non-profit organization - and a member of AGE - dedicated to developing, advocating for and implementing a decent, quality, safe and active life, adapted to the needs and abilities of each individual senior citizen. It aims to support the best sustainable model that will connect individuals with older persons in need of companionship and support for daily practical activities (shopping, medical appointments, bill payment) as well as emotional support. Preference will be given to solutions that include mentoring of the caring process and a preselection process for both parts ('helpers' and senior citizens).

A EU-funded grant of €30,000 will be offered to implement the selected innovative solution.

You will find more information on this call on the Foundation's website and on the Socialchallenges.eu innovation platform.

For further questions you can also contact Lea Banović at lea@zajednickiput.hr

  
The foundation's Challenge will be presented on 22nd February 2018 at 10:00 at the Educational and Research Center of the Foundation Zajednički put in Zvonimirova 17, 2nd floor. 

This can be followed live webstreamed following this click (operational at the time of the event).

Socialchallenges.eu Innovation Platform (SCHIP) is an EU funded initiative aimed to encourage interactions between the different stakeholders for the co-development of social innovation solutions addressing current societal challenges.

Coordinated by META Group (Italy), together with the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) and Impact Hub, this platform tests a novel approach in the selection of solutions that are demand driven and user centered. It supports the commitment of public authorities, private companies and third sector organisations in defining, prioritising social and environmental challenges, and uploading them onto the platform. It will next encourage the participation of social innovators, startups and SMEs to identify, fund, co-develop and test concrete solutions to these needs. 

27 challenges will be chosen and, for each challenge, 3 ‘semi-finalists’ will be selected. 

The 2018 calls will be launched as of 15 January 2018.

Rea more on the Platform website

This call aims at supporting the management of health and wellbeing while empowering the participation of citizens and facilitating the transformation of health and care services to more digitised, person-centred and community-based care models, thereby enabling better access to healthcare and the sustainability of health and care systems. 

It includes two calls - with 14 November 2018 as a deadline - on related to:

• SC1-DTH-10-2019-2020: Digital health and care services
• DT-TDS-01-2019: Smart and healthy living at home