PROGRESS
The PROGRESS programme (2007-2013) has a budget of over €700 million and will offer core funding for social European-level NGOs. However, a lot of the budget is committed expenditure.
PROGRESS will incorporate the previous four action programmes, which ended in 2006. These were:
Action against discrimination
Employment measures
The fight against social exclusion
The new programme aims to support the EU’s Social Agenda and strategy for jobs and growth. It will focus on activities with a strong European dimension, such as:
Europe-wide studies to improve knowledge of employment and social issues;
Building networks of national experts to encourage mutual learning and exchange of good practice;
Supporting key EU-level networks of NGOs active in fighting discrimination or promoting gender equality;
Promoting awareness of social and employment policies and legislation across the EU.
Who can apply?
national, regional and local authorities
public employment services
companies and employees’ organisations
NGOs
universities
research institutes
specialists - such as statistical offices
legal practitioners
Activities will be open to the 27 EU members, EFTA countries, candidate and pre-candidate countries. There will be a stakeholder involvement forum for PROGRESS: an ad hoc group will meet 4 times a year and NGOs should be on it. It will look at the impact of PROGRESS on policy (performance management).
1st calls for PROGRESS will be in February. Calls for European Networks will be in March/April.
Daphne III
Calls for proposals will soon be launched for Daphne III, a programme to combat violence against children, young people and women.
“Fight Against Violence (Daphne)” which is a specific programme under the more general “Fundamental Rights and Justice” programme, follows on from Daphne II. Daphne III has a proposed budget of €116.58 million over 7 years.
The European Parliament and the Council have reached a political agreement regarding the adoption of the programme, which aims to prevent and combat all forms of violence, in both public and private domains, including sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
The programme will include amongst other things:
Assisting NGOs
Publishing the results of the two previous Daphne programmes
Identifying and supporting positive treatment of people at risk of violence
Awareness-raising
Studying the impact of violence on both victims and society as a whole
Developing and implementing support programmes for victims and people at risk, as well as intervention programmes for perpetrators.
The Commission will fund two transnational projects that should involve at least two Member States. Funding may be through grants or public procurement contracts. The calls for proposals will be open to public or private organisations and institutions, candidate countries, Western Balkans and EFTA countries.
Other EU programmes 2007-2013:
