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Visegrad Fund
Visegrad Fund supports a diverse range of activities in all areas of life. From small cross-border projects that strive to improve mutual understanding in the border areas to multilateral initiatives. Projects must develop cooperation and active participation of organizations from at least 3 V4 countries (Poland, Czech Republik, Hungary and Slovakia) or organizations from 3 V4 countries and at least 1 organization from Western or Eastern Balkan countries (Visegrad+ Grants).
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EEA and Norway Grants
The EEA and Norway Grants are funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 beneficiary countries in Europe ( Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Estonia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Hungary, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia)
The EEA and Norway Grants support several programmes. List of the programmes: https://eeagrants.org/topics-programmes
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INTERREG Alpine Space programme
The Alpine Space programme is a European transnational cooperation programme for the Alpine region. It provides a framework to facilitate the cooperation between economic, social and environmental key players in seven Alpine countries, as well as between various institutional levels such as: academia, administration, business and innovation sector, and policy making.
Four of these thematic fields, called priorities, have been identified for the 2014–2020 period:
Priority 1: Innovative Alpine Space
Priority 2: Low Carbon Alpine Space
Priority 3: Liveable Alpine Space
Priority 4: Well-Governed Alpine Space
The cooperation area of the Alpine Space programme covers the Alps and their surrounding lowlands, connecting very distinct regions, such as the French Rhone Valley with the Slovenian Adriatic coast, and the metropolitan area of Milan with the Bavarian foothills.
The programming process for the Alpine Space programme 2021-2027 has officially started.
The European Social Fund (ESF)
The European Social Fund (ESF) is the European Union's main financial instrument for social policy and investment in people.
The ESF supports measures
- to prevent and combat unemployment
- to expand the range of training on offer
- and for an improved functioning of the labour market.
With the aim of promoting and employing, ESF invests in education, skills and lifelong learning. The priorities are gender equality, active ageing and inclusion, adaptation to change, technical assistance and reducing early school leaving. The ESF is one of the European Union's Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) alongside the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and the Cohesion Fund.
INTERREG Programme
INTERREG is the EU programme for cross-border cooperation, which supports collaborations between european countries. This includes three types of cooperation:
cross-border (INTERREG A)
transnational (INTERREG B)
interregional (INTERREG C).
Europe for Citizens Programme
The aim of the Europe for Citizens Programme is to contribute to citizens' understanding of the EU, its history and diversity and to encourage the democratic participation of citizens at EU level. The Programme is implemented through two strands:
Strand 1: European remembrance: Raise awareness of remembrance, common history and values and the Union's aim.
Strand 2: Democratic engagement and civic participation: Encourage democratic and civic participation of citizens at Union level.
Measures in this strand are:
-Town Twinning;
-Networks of Towns;
-Civil Society Projects
More information:
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens_en
EUPARTNERSEARCH
EUPARTNERSEARCH is a free service to foster the exchange of ideas and partnerships aiming at improvement of collaboration among European entities. The platform is based on the Erasmus+ Programme Calls. You may search for partners by programme, country and type of organisation: http://eupartnersearch.com/
EPALE platform search engine
Through the EPALE (Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe) search engine, you can search for partners by country, type of activity, type of organization or by keywords. The platform is especially useful for organisations interested in partnership cooperation in the field of adult education, lifelong learning: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/partner-search
After creating an EPALE account, you will be also able to add your organisation to thebase, as interested in partnership cooperation in the field.
The EEA and Norway Grants partner search engine
Through the EEA (European Economic Area, Norway-Iceland-Lichtenstein) and Norway Grants partner search engine, you can search for partners by country, topic or type of the organization: https://ngonorway.org/partners/
You may also register your organisation here, as interested in partnership projects in the areas covered by the EEA and Norway Grants, here: https://ngonorway.org/register/
European Commission partner search engine
Through the European Commission's partner search engine gathers the participants in past EU projects. You can search for project partners by keyword or a topic of a past call for proposals, type of organization and by geographical criteria. https://ec.europa.eu