The Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion of 2008 highlights the fact that 78 million people in the European Union live below the poverty line, 19 million of whom are children; and this in spite of having some of the most developed social protection systems in the world.
These important issues, together with the fate of the Lisbon Treaty, are just some of the many challenges facing the newly elected European Parliament.
The aim of this Call for Proposals is to find suitable projects from all Member-State organisations whichaim to enhance understanding of the role of the European Parliament and how it functions, which encourage a wider public interest and participation in the decisional process, and which provide a platform for those citizens to raise issues which are important to them.
The Directorate General for Communication will consider projects for television programmes which fall within the context of this call, as set out above, and which offer a means of communicating with a wide cross-section of citizens. Programmes may be the subject of a regional, national or multi-national broadcasting schedule. Please note that the times and dates of broadcasting set-out in the application will form part of the basis on which the proposal will be evaluated (cost/effectiveness and impact) and as such, the proposed schedules may not be significantly changed at a later stage.
This financing opportunity is only open to television broadcasting and/or television production companies, as attested by the official statute of the applicant organisation and with proven broadcasting and/or production experience. Applicants must provide, with their application a letter of guarantee that the proposed programme(s) will be broadcast, in the event that a grant is awarded. This letter must be provided by a television broadcasting company. Failure to include such a guarantee will result in your proposal being rejected.
Please do not submit an application if your organisation is not a television production or broadcasting company, likewise please do not submit an application if you cannot provide an unconditional guarantee from a television broadcasting company for the diffusion of your proposed programme(s), as your application will be rejected automatically without such a guarantee.
Only projects being held in one or more of the Member-States of the European Union may be considered under this funding programme.
Financing rate:
Each grant awarded may cover up to a maximum of 60 % of total eligible costs as presented in the budgetary estimate in the application form. The amount of the grant requested from the European Parliament will not be less than 50.000 € and will not be greater than 300.000 €.
Applicants and the example Grant Agreement, and Terms and Conditions, in order to verify that your proposal could be considered before submitting an application.
Receipt notification
Within two weeks of the closing date of the call for proposals the named contact person will receive a computer-generated acknowledgement of receipt of your application file.
This acknowledgement will include an individual reference number for your application and this must be quoted in all correspondence.
The indicative time schedule for receiving this acknowledgement of receipt by e-mail is between the 1st and the 11th of September 2009.
Evaluation
The evaluation procedures are expected to take place between the 21st September and the 9th of October 2009.
Results
The results of the evaluation procedures will be notified by e-mail, generated automatically by our computerised system, to the named contact person. This mail will contain only the essential information regarding the results. In this manner we are able to inform all applicants as quickly as possible of the status of their application. Any request for additional information regarding the treatment of your proposal will be dealt with at a later stage and only following a written request for information, quoting the full reference number of your application and introduced by the person named as the contact person or by the person named as being responsible for the application. Formulation of the final decision and communication of the results to applicants is expected to take place between the 3rd and the 13th of November 2009.
Applications must be presented on the Grant Application Form annexed to this call for proposals. The format, titles and footnotes may not be changed or removed; additional pages may be added where necessary. The application form and the project proposed must be submitted in English or French. The supporting documents, such as the official accounts and statute of the applicant organisation should be a copy of the original documents, and will therefore be in the language of the country concerned. We do not require translated documents. For this theme proposals will be introduced under the theme reference number n° 1 this must be clearly marked on the front page of the application form. Proposals received which do not identify the theme number may be excluded from evaluation.
This call for proposals is open until 1/09/2009 at 12.00 hrs midday.
For more information:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/tenders/subventions_call_proposal_2010/Theme_01_TV.pdf
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/tenders/subventions_call_proposal_2010.htm
