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FIT FOR LIFE AWARDS 2023

FFL_logo-smallEvery year, the Fit for Life Foundation awards grants of EUR 100,000 each to 3 to 4 non-profit organizations or social enterprises that are pioneering projects to promote healthy ageing around the world. This multi-year support enables Laureates to steadily scale up their programs, while building public awareness of the importance of healthy aging for communities.

The mission and activities of the organisation or initiative must directly address healthy ageing for older (65+ years) or middle-aged people (45+ years). We welcome solutions relevant to: physical fitness; mental health, mental well-being; exercise and sport; mobility; nutrition; at-home care; community support for older people; prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs); other forms of preventative health support.

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 15 February, 2023

Past calls for proposals

Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children

This call will finance projects that will pursue the following objectives (priorities):

  1. integrate prevention of various forms of gender-based violence against women in different contexts, with a systemic approach 
  2. tackle harmful practices against women and girls 
  3. prevent gender-based violence by tackling its root causes 
  4. support and improve national data collection on violence against children 
  5. strengthen responses that prevent and support child victims of violence by reinforcing child protection systems at national and local level 

More information

 

Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, 12 April, 2022

Call for proposals to promote gender equality

This call aims to promote equal participation and representation of women and men in political and economic decision making, tackling gender stereotypes, including with a focus on youth, and in advertising and the media.

More information

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 16 March, 2022

Call for proposals to promote equality and to fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination

The objective of this call is to support a comprehensive and intersectional approach and specific actions to prevent and fight against intolerance, racism, xenophobia, and discrimination, in particular on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, including when this manifests in the form of antigypsism, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred, Afrophobia and LGBTIQ phobia, offline and online.

More information

 

Deadline for Submission: Thursday, 24 February, 2022

Fit for Life Awards

Every year, the Fit for Life Foundation awards grants of EUR 100,000 each to 3 non-profit organisations or social enterprises that promote healthy ageing for older (65+ years) or middle-aged people (45+ years). 

More information

 

Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, 15 February, 2022

Daphne call on violence against women and children

The objective of this call is to fight violence, including gender-based violence, in particular:

  1. preventing and combating at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls and domestic violence, also by promoting the standards set out in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention);
  2. preventing and combating all forms of violence against children, young people, as well as violence against other groups at risk, such as LGBTIQ people and people with disabilities;
  3. supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of such violence, such as domestic violence exerted within the family or violence in intimate relationships, including children orphaned by domestic crimes, and supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence. 

This call aims to contribute to the implementation of the:

  • EU Gender Equality Strategy
  • Provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), particularly Chapters IV and V related to support and protection measures;
  • Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime.
      

Read more on this call

 

Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, 15 June, 2021

Healthy ageing and independent living: SHAPES Open Calls funds

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.
  

More information here

 

Deadline for Submission: Sunday, 28 February, 2021

Access City Awards 2021: call for applications open

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

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 9 September, 2020

Joint Call on Equality and Wellbeing across Generations

JPI_MYBL-logoWith 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:

  • How demographic change is altering the implicit contract between generations?
  • How policy can ensure that change results in a reduction in inequality?

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:

  1. Income and wealth
  2. Caring responsibilities
  3. Social and political participation

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.

More information here

 

Deadline for Submission: Monday, 14 September, 2020

European Culture of Solidarity Fund

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

 

Deadline for Submission: Monday, 27 April, 2020

Scaling up digital transformation for health and care in Europe - Second calls for twinning

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
  

What’s in it for me?

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.

  • DigitalHealthEurope twinnings

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.

  • EIP on AHA twinnings

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*

 

Deadline for Submission: Friday, 22 May, 2020

'Lifelong Learning For Sustainable Societies' -  LLLAwards 2020

LLLAwards20_logoThe 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:

  1. Learning that empowers – The future of learning
  2. Learning that matters – The future of skills
  3. Learning that lasts – Sustainable learning

Visit the website of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) for more details

 

Deadline for Submission: Monday, 31 August, 2020

Healthy Ageing with the Support of Digital Solutions - 2020 AAL Call

AAL-logo_smallAAL 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

 

Deadline for Submission: Friday, 22 May, 2020

Effective implementation of the principle of non-discrimination

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.:

  • enhanced citizens’ awareness of their right to equal treatment without discrimination;
  • improved support to victims;
  • enhanced cooperation promoting equal treatment/improved response to discrimination;
  • decreased discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Indicative budget € 1 000 000
  

More details on the European Commission's website

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 1 April, 2020

Closing gender gaps over the life-course

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

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 1 April, 2020

Smart Ageing Prize

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.

Visit AAL website for more

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 26 February, 2020

Erasmus+ Call - networks and partnerships for Adult Learning providers

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

 

Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, 25 February, 2020

Horizon 2020 - DTH-04 International cooperation in smart living environments for ageing people

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.

Read more on this call here

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 22 April, 2020

Access City Award 2020

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

 

Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, 11 September, 2019

3rd Call for Reference Sites on active & healthy ageing

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

 

Deadline for Submission: Sunday, 30 June, 2019

2019 EIP AHA Call for Twinnings Support Scheme

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

 

Deadline for Submission: Saturday, 15 June, 2019
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