Reducing youth unemployment: setting up co-operatives to enhance working opportunities in the EU

Call: Reducing youth unemployment: setting up co-operatives to enhance working opportunities in the EU

Programme

Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Acronym

DG GROWTH

Type of Fund

Action programme

Description of programme
"Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs"

The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is the European Commission service responsible for:

completing the Internal Market for goods and services
helping turn the EU into a smart, sustainable, and inclusive economy by implementing the industrial and sectorial policies of the flagship Europe 2020 initiative
fostering entrepreneurship and growth by reducing the administrative burden on small businesses; facilitating access to funding for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and supporting access to global markets for EU companies. All of these actions are encapsulated in the Small Business Act
generating policy on the protection and enforcement of industrial property rights, coordinating the EU position and negotiations in the international intellectual property rights (IPR) system, and assisting innovators on how to effectively use IP rights
delivering the EU's space policy via the two large-scale programmes Copernicus (European Earth observation satellite system) and Galileo (European global navigation satellite system), as well research actions to spur technological innovation and economic growth

Link

Link to Programme

Call

Reducing youth unemployment: setting up co-operatives to enhance working opportunities in the EU

Description of call
"Reducing youth unemployment: setting up co-operatives to enhance working opportunities in the EU"

The general objective of the call is to enhance the development of cooperatives and promote the image of cooperatives among young people. It seeks to embed cooperative entrepreneurial education both in secondary and higher education and outside the educational environment. Particularly, the objectives intend to stimulate the transfer and development of competences of the cooperative entrepreneurship in countries

where the cooperative tradition is weak and where benefits offered by the cooperative model are not sufficiently well known
struggling with high youth unemployment

To achieve the expected results, the action will be built around 3 different topics

Topic 1: Delivering pilot training courses for students in secondary/higher education level
Topic 2: Cross-European workshops to share knowledge and learn from practitioners (‘train the trainers’)
Topic 3: Fostering the entrepreneurial mind-sets of young people to create cooperatives outside the educational environment

Link

Link to Call

Thematic Focus

Youth, Education, Employment

Funding area

EU Member States

Origin of Applicant

EU Member States

Eligible applicants

Education and Training Centres, Federal State / Region / City / Municipality / Local Authority, Research Institution, Lobby Group / Professional Association / Trade Union, International Organization, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, SMEs (between 10 and 249 employees), Microenterprises (fewer than 10 employees), NGO / NPO, Public Services, Other, National Government, Start Up Company, University, Enterprise (more than 250 employees or not defined), Association

Applicant details

The participation as coordinator and/or partner in more than one proposal or in more than one topic is not permitted.

Project Partner

Yes

Project Partner Details

Consortia should be composed of at least three (3) different entities from at least three (3) different Member States

Project duration max

18 months

Type of Funding

Grants

Financial details

Total call budget: 2 million €
Max. grant size per project: 215 000 €
Co-financing rate: max. 90%