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Programme Description
Το Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινωνικό Ταμείο Plus είναι το κύριο μέσο της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης (ΕΕ) για επενδύσεις σε ανθρώπους. Ακόμη, θα συνεχίσει να συνεισφέρει σημαντικά στις πολιτικές της ΕΕ για την απασχόληση, την κοινωνική, την εκπαίδευση και τις δεξιότητες, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των διαρθρωτικών μεταρρυθμίσεων σε αυτούς τους τομείς.
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Call
Summary
The European Commission and the European Competence Centre for Social Innovation launched a new transnational Call: ‘Strengthening the European Child Guarantee national governance systems and supporting access to the labour market for Roma NEETs’ under the European Social Fund+ Social Innovation+ initiative.
Under the Strand I “Strengthening the European Child Guarantee national governance systems”, the Call will aim to support transnational projects which aim at testing new approaches and transferring or scaling up social innovations that strengthen the governance and implementation of the European Child Guarantee, ensuring children in need have access to key services.
Detailed Call Description
Applicants are encouraged to propose activities best suited to their specific context, however the following activities should be covered:
- Identification and framing of challenges to establishing and delivering integrated service delivery models. For example, activities may include conducting a comprehensive mapping of barriers that prevent children in need from accessing key services, such as education, healthcare, nutrition, and housing.
- Scaling up the integrated service delivery models of the ECG and improving outreach to children in need. For example, activities may include facilitating collaboration, including through the exchange of information and administrative data, engaging and bringing together key stakeholders relevant to the ECG, such as public bodies (Child Guarantee Coordinators, ECG Contact Points, or similar), social service providers, education and health providers, non-profit organisations, organisations representing children in need, professionals working with children, and private sector actors, as well as research institutions. This may also involve establishing structured cooperation mechanisms; organising joint workshops and capacity-building activities can also be envisioned.
- Piloting integration of services on the ground for a specific target group (as mentioned in paragraph 5 of the ECG Recommendation) through testing or scaling-up a viable solution for integrated delivery of services. The action can, for example focus on the interaction of the ECG and the Youth Guarantee, supporting the transition to adulthood.
- Scaling-up: Identifying proven social innovation models, designing effective method(s) for scaling up and working towards mainstreaming social innovation. For example, activities may include analysing proven social innovation models that improve access to key services for children in need. Activities may also include engaging public bodies and other key stakeholders to ensure the uptake of successful social innovation models. If the project involves social experimentation, activities should include developing an actionable strategy on supporting the replication, expansion, or integration of the selected method into the activities of key stakeholders relevant to the ECG.
- Improving monitoring and evaluation systems to allow for evidence-based policy–making (in relation to policies impacting disadvantaged children). For example, activities may include strengthening or improving national monitoring and evaluation systems to support the central coordination of policies addressing child poverty or identifying efficient ways for data collection and data sharing. Where projects involve a testing component, they should include a proportionate evaluation methodology to assess the effectiveness of the intervention, with a view to informing possible future upscaling.
- Promoting mutual learning in addressing child poverty and monitoring across the participating EaSI countries. This includes supporting the transfer and scaling-up of tested integrated service delivery and monitoring models through structured knowledge exchange, peer learning, and capacity-building activities among relevant stakeholders.
- Participation in mutual learning events organised by the European Competence Centre for Social Innovation.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
80%
A co-funding of at least 20% must thus come from sources other than the EU budget.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Health
- Public Administration
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
- Youth
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Legal Entities
- Legal Entities under Public Law
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Only consortia are eligible.
The consortium must include an applicant (the coordinator) and at least two co-applicants. Associated partners do not count towards this minimum requirement for the consortium.
The members of the consortium shall represent at least two different eligible countries.
The consortium must include (minimum requirement):
1An applicant (the coordinator of the consortium): the national Child Guarantee Coordinator established in an EU Member State, namely the organisation within which the National Child Guarantee coordinator is established to implement the Council recommendation establishing the European Child Guarantee.
Each national Child Guarantee Coordinator can submit only one application as the coordinator of the consortium.
2. As co-applicants:
2.1. at least one national Child Guarantee Coordinator, established in an EU Member State other than that of the coordinator, OR
a Child Guarantee Contact Point/a public body designated for the central coordination of the implementation of policies addressing child poverty, established in the listed third country,
AND
2.2. at least one regional and/or local public authority, responsible for the implementation of policies addressing child poverty, established in the same country as the applicant or one of the co-applicants, OR
a non-governmental, non-profit organisation delivering social services and/or enabling access to goods and services related to the implementation of policies addressing child poverty, which should be established in the same country as the applicant or one of the co-applicants.
The founding documents of each individual co-applicant must be provided with the application. These documents must clearly indicate that the mission of the public body, regional or local public authority, and/or non-governmental, non-profit organisation is addressing child poverty.
Consortia are encouraged to include as additional co-applicants or associated partners:
- other Child Guarantee Contact Points and / or a public bodies designated for the central coordination of the implementation of policies addressing child poverty, established in the listed third country;
- other national-level public authorities, which are implementing policies for vulnerable children;
- other eligible regional and/or local public authorities/NGOs.