Policy background and objectives: Max. Grant amount: up to 1 000.000 €
This call for proposals on social policy experimentations intends to improve the quality and effectiveness of social policies and to facilitate their adaptation to new social needs and societal challenges. Through this call, PROGRESS countries(EU27, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Serbia) embarking on welfare reforms are offered financial support to experiment envisaged policy changes and reforms before implementing them, if successful, on a wider scale.
Eligibility of the applicant:
The applicant should meet the following eligibility criteria:
- The applicant must be established in one of the PROGRESS participating countries;
- The applicant must be a public authority, at central, regional or local level, or a body governed by public law;
Eligibility of the proposal:
The proposal should meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Be complete and submitted in the online application SWIM before the deadline
- Be submitted on paper and sent by post or notified by personal delivery in one original before the deadline
- Be a social policy experiment
- Only seek funding for activities in PROGRESS participating countries
- Include an evaluation done by an evaluator identified in the proposal. The evaluation should be carried out in conditions allowing the
independence of its results from the applicant
- Include partners from at least two other PROGRESS participating countries in the dissemination phase of the project at the latest
- Contain a description of how the scaling-up of the experiment could occur, so that there is an actual perspective that the test, if
successful, is transformed into a policy reform
- Respect the maximum limit for EU co-financing, namely maximum 80% of the total eligible costs of the action
- The duration is between 24 months and 36 months
- The requested grant is between 700 000 € and 1 000 000 €.
Budget:
The overall indicative amount made available for this call is 4 200 000 €. The grant requested should be 700 000 € minimum and 1 000 000 € maximum.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 February 2013
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