Aiming to sustain its pilots activities, the Large-Scale Pilot project SHAPES offers 50 000EUR grants to SMEs, universities and research centres, among others, to promote innovation on smart homes, nutrition and hydration, smart connectables, chatbots, social support in local communities, and more.
The European Prize for cities accessible to persons with disabilities and older people is now open for application to cities over 50 000 inhabitants. This new edition of the Access City Award will take into account the current global situation and a special mention “Accessibility of public services in times of pandemic” will be created to reward cities’ efforts.
For more information: https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=114
With major demographic change taking place across Europe and Canada, the Joint Programming Initiative "More Years Better Lives" (JPI MYBL) is inviting researchers to submit proposals that explore:
More specifically, this call is focused on three aspects of inequality. Proposals may choose to focus on one, two or all three of these topics:
We accept proposals until 17:00 CEST September 14 2020. To learn more about the call and the full scope of our topics, please read our guidelines for applicants. Submission is done exclusively via this platform, so create an account to get started on your proposal today!
Eleven countries have partnered to offer this funding opportunity on demographic change and inequality: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The European Culture of Solidarity Fund supports imaginative cultural initiatives that, in the midst of the global pandemic crisis reinforce European solidarity and the idea of Europe as a shared public space.
Set up in partnership with other foundations, the Fund is open to individuals, collectives and organisations from all sectors and civil society at large.
Visit the website of the European Cultural Foundation for more details
In spring 2020, both the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) and DigitalHealthEurope (DHE) are working together to promote their twinning schemes to the people of Europe.
For more information visit this website
These are real opportunities for sites and regions throughout Europe to get together, meet, and share their experiences. The focus will be on scaling-up digital health and care solutions across Europe.
The twinning schemes will support many different types of Europe’s quadruple helix stakeholders: industry, civil society, academia and governments.
The DHE call focuses on supporting local, regional and national health and care providers in Europe (adopters) that wish to adopt innovative solutions which are available for transfer from another local, regional and national health and care provider (originators) in Europe.
The EIP on AHA call concentrates on digitally-enabled innovative ICT solutions for health and care delivery for the ageing population (following the priorities of the Communication of the EC “on enabling the digital transformation of health and care in the Digital Single Market”). These twinnings are open to Reference Sites that received their Reference Site status as a result of the 2019 calls for Reference Sites.
Total Funding: Close to 500,000 euros
View the original infographics here *Deadline extended to 22 May 2020*
The aim of the annual Lifelong Learning Award is to give visibility to innovative practices taking place all over Europe and inspire new practices and policies. The topic of this year's LLLAwards is “Lifelong Learning For Sustainable Societies“. Three initiatives will be recognised and awarded in the following three categories:
- Learning that empowers – The future of learning
- Learning that matters – The future of skills
- Learning that lasts – Sustainable learning
Visit the website of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) for more details
AAL Call 2020 is part of the Active & Assisted Living Programme (AAL Programme). The aim of this Call is to support innovative, transnational and multi-disciplinary collaborative projects developing ICT-based solutions to promote active living in work & training, for vitality & abilities, in leisure & culture, for information & communication, as well as for Assisted Living, such as in health & care, living & building, mobility & transport, safety & security.
More details on this call is provided on the AAL website
This call for proposals covers at least one of the different grounds for discrimination listed in Art. 19 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
The Priority 5 of the call is restricted to public authorities and aims at promoting non-discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
This entails actions to prevent and combat discrimination on the ground, as well as initiatives aimed at empowering, supporting and protecting groups and individuals affected by forms of discrimination, e.g.:
Indicative budget € 1 000 000
More details on the European Commission's website
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
2. Tackling gender stereotypes in educational and career choices in a digitalised world
More details on the European Commission's website
Businesses of the future should harness the skills and assets of all generations to enable people to work together and thrive through enterprise. This year's Smart Ageing Prize will reward solutions that support, empower and inspire older adults to engage in entrepreneurship, for example through the creation of intergenerational teams and skills-sharing, or digital solutions to help bring to life the entrepreneurial ideas and energy of the 60+ age group.
This Erasmus+ call will support projects that either:
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
Proposals under that call should develop and validate new solutions leading to smart living environments for ageing people, supporting independent active and healthy lifestyles. The proposed research and innovation action should be in collaboration with parties from Japan or Canada.
The Access City Award is an annual EU contest aimed to recognize and support the effort of cities to be more accessible to people with disability and older persons. European cities of more 50,000 inhabitants can submit their activities and projects until 11 September 2019.
More details on the European Commission's website
As part of the European Partnership on Active and Halthy Ageing (EIP AHA), the European Commission has launched its 3rd 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
Launch of the 2019 European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA) Call for Twinnings Support Scheme. The objective is to facilitate the deployment of large-scale innovative digitally-enabled solutions for health and care delivery for older adults. The scheme targets regional organisations that actively participate in the EIP on AHA that have made Individual Commitments or Collaborative Commitments to the EIP on AHA. They should also hold Reference Site status.
More information onthis call on EIP AHA website
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.
The aim of the call is to support innovative, transnational and multi-disciplinary collaborative projects for active living, such as in work & training, for vitality & abilities, in leisure & culture, for information & communication, as well as for Assisted Living, such as in health & care, living & building, mobility & transport, safety & security.
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.
The Access City Award is a European award recognising cities that have worked to become more accessible for their citizens.The Access City Award is open to
For the Access City Award 2019, cities with fewer than 50 000 inhabitants may participate in one category of the special cultural heritage awards.
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.
The WHO Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, in collaboration with Grantmakers In Aging, have launched Innovation@Home, a competition and a call for age-friendly housing practices that foster healthy and active ageing and can inspire action around the world.
Visit this page for more details
