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 which aim 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 radio 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 local, 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.
Proposals will concentrate on providing unbiased, accurate and up-to-date information and will include specific links to the role played by the European Parliament in the decisional process, as democratically elected body, and how those decisions impact on the daily lives of the European Citizen.
This financing opportunity is only open to radio broadcasting companies, as attested by the official statute of the applicant organisation and with proven broadcasting 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. Failure to include such a guarantee will result in your proposal being rejected.
Financing rate:
Each grant awarded may cover up to a maximum of 70 % 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 10.000 € and will not be greater than 70.000 €.
Please note that only proposals offering a trans-national project and broadcasting schedule would be considered for a grant amount over and above 50.000€. If your proposal relates to a project relating to your own country and which will be broadcast in one country you should request only a maximum grant amount up to 50.000€.
There are three ways of sending your application as follows: by registered post, by handing it in personally, by having it delivered by private courier/express delivery company.
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 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.
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_02_Radio.pdf
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/tenders/subventions_call_proposal_2010.htm
