Calls for proposals

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

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

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

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 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.

Read more on AAL 2019 call

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

• all EU cities of over 50 000 inhabitants
• urban areas composed of two or more towns with a combined population of over 50,000 inhabitants, if they are in EU countries with fewer than 2 cities with over 50 000 inhabitants

For the Access City Award 2019, cities with fewer than 50 000 inhabitants may participate in one category of the special cultural heritage awards.

More information here

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

This new social innovation call for proposals aims at supporting governmental and non-governmental actors as well as social partners in delivering on the rights and principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights with regard to reconciling work and private life. It aims also at funding projects to develop, test, and implement innovative work-life balance strategies in the workplace. The purpose of these strategies is to facilitate the reconciliation of work and private life through supporting a more equal share of care responsibilities between working women and men, thereby encouraging a higher participation of women in the labour market.

The budget earmarked is estimated at € 10.000.000 and the European Commission expects to fund 5-7 proposals.

Further details and the submission form can be found here