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.

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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). 

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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.
  

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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:

• 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.

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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.

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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*

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