The EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment opened a new call to support innovative solutions to youth unemployment. In doing so, the Fund particularly aims at transnational cooperation to pool resources and boost mutual learning. The current call provides EUR 11.5 million for initiatives that ensure access to emloyment, eduaction and training for young people in small towns and rural areas, young mothers, and young long-term unemployed. Thereby, the call seeks to support solutions for the following countries:
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
Likewise, the Fund for Youth Employment encourages project applicants to consider the inclusion of expertise of partners from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, the Donor States and international organisations.
Interested project consortia can submit their initiatives until 5 January 2021.
Fund for Youth Employment
The Fund for Youth Employment was established in 2017 to contribute to sustainable and quality youth employment in Europe. Unlike the ordinary programmes funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, this Fund has a transnational focus – it helps entities across Europe pooling their efforts to find new ways of reducing youth unemployment.
The Fund for Youth Employment complements the Youth Employment Initiative, which is the main EU funding programme to facilitate the roll-out of the Youth Guarantee –a commitment by all EU Member States to ensure that young people receive good quality offer of employment, continued education and apprenticeship.
Links
- Website EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment
- Call for Proposals | Fund for Youth Employment (PDF)
- Q&A | Fund for Youth Employment (PDF)
Image (c) EEA and Norway Grants/Fund for Youth Employment
