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Call for proposals � EACEA/15/12: Youth in Action Programme: Youth Support Systems � Sub-action 4.3: Support to Youth Workers� Mobility

The purpose of this call for proposals is to support youth workers’ mobility and exchanges with a view to promoting the acquisition of new skills and competences in order to enrich their profile as professionals in the youth field. By promoting long-term transnational learning experiences for youth workers, this new action will also aim at strengthening the capacities of the structures involved in the project, which will benefit from the experience and new perspective brought by a youth worker from a different background. In doing so, this call will enhance networking among youth structures in Europe and will contribute to the policy priority to support, recognise and professionalize youth work as a cross-cutting policy tool in Europe.

The objectives of the call are:
— To give youth workers the opportunity to experience a different working reality in another country;
— To gain a better understanding of the European dimension of youth work;
— To improve youth workers’ professional, intercultural and language competences;
— To promote the exchange of experiences and approaches to youth work and non-formal education in Europe;
— To contribute to develop stronger and better quality partnerships between youth organisations across Europe;
— To strengthen the quality and the role of youth work in Europe.

Preference will be given to those projects which best reflect the following priorities:
i) Permanent priorities of the Youth in Action Programme:
— Participation of young people;
— Cultural diversity;
— European citizenship;
— Inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.
ii) Annual priorities of the Youth in Action Programme:
— Youth unemployment, poverty and marginalisation;
— Spirit of initiative, creativity and entrepreneurship, employability;
— Grassroots sport and outdoor activities;
— Global environmental challenges and climate change.

Proposals must be submitted by non-profit organisations. These organisations can be:
— Non-governmental organisations (NGOs);
— Bodies active at European level in the field of youth (ENGO), which have member organisations in at least eight Programme Countries of the Youth in Action Programme;
— Public bodies based at regional or local level.
This applies to both applicant and partner organisations.

Applicants must — at the specified deadline for submitting their proposals — have been legally registered for at least two years in one of the Programme Countries: the 27 EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, Turkey.

Projects should be based on a solid partnership between two partners from two different Programme Countries of which at least one from an EU Member State, acting respectively as sending and host organisation of the youth worker(s) involved in the project. One of the two partners assumes the role of coordinating organisation and applies to the Executive Agency for the whole project on behalf of both. No more than one project proposal can be submitted by the same applicant under this call for proposals.

The project must include activities of a non-profit-making nature that are related to the field of youth and non-formal education.

Projects must start between 1 November 2012 and 1 April 2013, and have a maximum duration of 12 months. The duration of the mobility will have a minimum duration of 2 months and a maximum duration of 6 months.

Participants of the project proposals submitted under this call for proposals must be professional youth workers legally resident in one of the Youth in Action Programme Countries. Both paid employees and experienced volunteers working in non-governmental organisations or local or regional public bodies active in the field of youth are concerned. There is no age limit for participants.

A minimum of two years of relevant and documented professional experience in the field of youth work is required. Youth workers must have a clear, regular, structured and stable cooperation with their sending organisation. They must be identified in the application form.

Projects will support individual mobility of up to two youth workers. When two youth workers are involved, the project must be based on the principle of reciprocity, i.e. there should be a mutual exchange of youth workers between the two partner organisations. This will also allow partners to maintain stability in their human resources.

Youth workers engaged on a voluntary basis should provide proof that they have a solid connection as well as a regular, structured and long-term cooperation with their sending organisation. This call is not targeted at young volunteers working occasionally in a youth organisation or public body.

The total budget allocated to the cofinancing of projects under this call for proposals is estimated at €1 million. The maximum grant is €25,000.

The deadline for applications is 3 September 2012.

Additional information can be found on the EACEA website

Reference: 2012/C 139/10

(Added 2012-05-15)