«What I want is for Europe to have a social triple-A rating: that is just as important as an economic and financial triple-A rating.»

October 2014, Jean Claude Junker,

One of the many calls for proposals of Erasmus Plus, Europe’s Programme on supporting education, youth, training, and sports is ‘’Social Inclusion and Common Values’’. The call was presented on December 11^th, 2018.

As it is with every Erasmus Plus call, this one also supports projects in the field of education, training, and youth. In addition to other calls, Social Inclusion and Common Values also aims at upscaling and disseminating innovative good practices falling under the scope of the Paris Declaration.

If you are interested in applying for this call, there are a few things that you are going to want to take under consideration. Any application submitted under this call will need to mainly address one of the two general objectives that have been set for this application by the EU. These objectives are:

1. Preventing violent radicalization and promoting democratic values, fundamental rights, intercultural understanding, and active citizenship;
2. Fostering the inclusion of disadvantaged learners, including persons with a migrant background, while preventing and combating discriminatory practices.

There are multiple activities that may be financed under this call. These activities include:

Strand 1 – Transnational cooperation projects

• Cooperation/partnerships and networking models which involve combinations of relevant (public/private) stakeholders across different sectors;
• Adapting  learning practices, tools, and materials, including curricula and course design;
• Conferences, seminars, workshops and meetings with policy and decision makers;
• Assessing, sharing and validating good practice and learning experiences ;
• Training and other capacity-building activities (e.g.  for teachers, youth workers, local authorities, prison staff, etc.);
• Supportive approaches and outreach practices from  young people to young people;
• Targeted awareness-raising and dissemination activities based on effective communication strategies and involving information material;
• Operational or policy recommendations in the field of education, training, and youth  that are relevant to the objectives of the Paris Declaration;
• Evaluation activities.

Strand 2 – Large-scale volunteering projects:

• Voluntary activities of young people aged from 17-30 resident in an eligible country with duration from 2 to12 months;
• Targeted awareness-raising and dissemination activities, including information material and effective communication strategies;
• Conferences, seminars, workshops and meetings with policy and decision makers;
• Operational or policy recommendations in the field of volunteering that are relevant to the situation of newly arrived migrants;
• Supportive approaches and outreach practices addressing young people from the disadvantaged groups of young people;
• Evaluation activities.

Strand 3 – Networking of Erasmus+ National Agencies

• Targeted awareness-raising and dissemination activities, including information material and effective communication strategies;
• Conferences, seminars, workshops and meetings with policy and decision makers;
• Assessing, sharing and validating good practice and learning experiences;
• Cooperation/partnerships and networking models which involve combinations of relevant (public/private) stakeholders across different sectors;
• Developing learning practices, tools, and materials;
• Draw up policy recommendations and best practice examples;
• Supportive approaches and outreach practices addressing young people from disadvantaged groups;
• Training and other capacity-building activities for organizations/institutions including youth workers and volunteers;
• Integration of tried and tested  innovations/good practices into local, regional, national and European systems and their mainstreaming;
• Grass-root youth work and volunteering activities for testing the gathered knowledge;
• Evaluation activities.

Who will benefit from this call?

All EU calls are equally important for the European Society. Each call addresses a different topic. In many cases, multiple calls address multiple topics and cover the same topics as others. The reason why this topic is so important is the fact that it focuses on mainly addressing the Social Inclusion issue. One of the hardest issue to resolve. This call will mainly benefit:

• Educational institutions and other learning providers;
• Public authorities at national/regional/local level responsible for education, training, and youth;
• Non-profit organizations (NGOs);
• Research institutions;
• Trade organizations and social partners;
• Guidance and recognition centers;
• International organizations;
• Private companies;
• Networks of the organizations listed above are also eligible as long as they have legal personality;
• Erasmus + National Agencies in the field of youth

Over our 14 years of experience, here at IED, we have implemented various EU Projects concentrating on Social Inclusion the lack of it and its impact on the European Society.  Projects like Move Up- Boosting the Social Skills of Adults for Better Employability and Success at Work and YouMe- Youth Migrant Entrepreneurship have helped us create informative and useful material that can be used as a guide to improve to Social Inclusion issue all around Europe.

The Submission Deadline for this Call is on February 26^th 2019 at 12:00 (noon Brussels time)

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