This call for proposals serves to implement the preparatory action ‘European Partnership on Sports’ in accordance with the Commission Decision adopting the 2013 annual work programme on grants and contracts for the preparatory action ‘European Partnership on Sports’ and for the ‘Special annual events’.
The main objective of this preparatory action is to prepare future EU actions in this field, in particular in the framework of the ‘Sport’ Chapter of the proposed Union programme for education, training, youth and sport for 2014-2020 (“Erasmus for All“), building on the priorities set in the 2007 White Paper on Sport and the 2011 Communication on developing the European dimension in sport.

This call for proposals will support transnational projects in the following areas:
1. strengthening of good governance and dual careers in sport through support for the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of non-profit sport organisations;
2. protecting athletes, especially the youngest, from health and safety hazards by improving training and competition conditions;
3. promoting traditional European sports and games.

Budget and duration:
The total budget available is EUR 2 650 000.
EU co-financing will be provided to a maximum of 80% of the total costs. A minimum of 20% of the total eligible costs must be provided by the applicant.
Applications with additional third-party private funding are also encouraged.
Staff costs may not exceed 50% of the total eligible costs. Contributions in kind are not accepted as co-financing.
The project must begin between 1 January 2014 and 31 March 2014 and end no later than 30 June 2015.

Eligible proposals should:
– involve actions fully carried out in the Member States of the European Union;
– have a transnational network of minimum five EU Member States.

Eligible applicants:
– Public bodies;
– Not-for-profit organisations.

Applicants must:
– have their head office in one of the Member States of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom);
– have a legal status.
Individual persons may not submit applications under this call for proposals

Deadline: was 19 July 2013.

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