Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) launched a new call for proposals under the action “Entrepreneurial culture of young people and entrepreneurship education”. This action seeks to implement the Small Business Act and the Oslo Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education in Europe, promoting successful ideas in the field of education for the enterprise. Those projects that have a clear European added value will receive funding from the European Commission.
Objectives of the call:
Lot 1:
- Establishing a cross-European workshop programme for entrepreneurship professors in higher education to share knowledge and learn from practitioners (Entrepreneurship Summer Academy);
Lot 2:
- Creating a common on-line platform for entrepreneurship educators and related practitioners;
- Creating a European Entrepreneurship Educators Network;
- Fostering entrepreneurship among female university graduates;
- Fostering the entrepreneurial mindsets of young people outside the educational environment;
- Developing innovative and practice-based teaching material on entrepreneurship for higher (university) education, in particular by using real cases and experiential learning.
Proposals can address a single objective among those mentioned above, or combine several objectives. Proposals not falling into the above-mentioned priority areas can be also selected, under Lot 2, if they correspond to an initiative listed in the Oslo Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education in Europe and provide a major added value.
The maximum budget allocated for the operation is: approx. € 2.750,000. Only projects requiring a minimum EU funding of € 200,000, but no more than € 500,000 will be supported.
Indicative number of projects/average size:
For Lot 1, no more than 2 projects will be supported.
For Lot 2, no more than 10 projects will be supported.br />
Within the limits specified above, it is in principle possible that more than one project is awarded addressing the same priority area, as grants will be awarded to the best scoring proposals within each Lot.
Deadline for presenting project proposals: 20 April 2009 (project will start the 1st November)
For further information:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=2103
