Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion - EU Call 'Information sharing and outreach activities to young people about Youth Guarantee offers'

The European Commission has published a new call for proposals under the Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion programme (EaSI). This call 'Information sharing and outreach activities to young people about Youth Guarantee offers' has a budget of € 2,000,000 available. The deadline for the submission of applications is August 14, 2015. Grants are expected to be in the range of € 400,000 per application selected.
The requested EU contribution cannot exceed 80% of the total eligible costs of the action. The applicant must guarantee the co-financing in cash of the remaining 20% covered from sources other than from European Union funds. Contributions in kind are not accepted as co-financing. The Commission intends to fund approximately five proposals, with no more than one per Member State.
A priority of Commission President Juncker's Guidelines is a New Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment, which necessitates the acceleration of the implementation of the Youth Guarantee Scheme. Coupled with this, one of the objectives of the EaSI PROGRESS axis is to facilitate effective and inclusive information-sharing, mutual learning and dialogue and as such this call for proposals has the overarching objective of removing obstacles to Youth Guarantee implementation, notably by outreach, information sharing and communication activities leading to both of the following specific objectives:

To better inform/engage Youth Guarantee provision and governance Stakeholders by promoting two-way communication and cooperation mechanisms within a Member State and enhancing the role they can play;
To better inform young people about the Youth Guarantee, engage with and reach out to them, with the aim of bringing them into the Youth Guarantee service.

The lead or sole applicant must be the relevant public authority in charge of establishing and managing the national Youth Guarantee scheme, as already identified by the Member State pursuant to the Council Recommendation on Establishing a Youth Guarantee or must be an entity (public, private, not-for-profit or international organisation) clearly and demonstratively designated by the aforementioned public authority to implement the activities included in the proposal.