Open ESF calls

Four ESF calls are currently open:

• Intensive Support for Young People with Additional Needs who are Not in Education, Employment or Training - deadline 27th November 2019?
• Fuller Working Lives - deadline?10th December 2019
• Access to Employment - deadline 30th December 2019
• D2N2 Active Inclusion Programme - multiple and complex needs - deadline 8th January 2020

Call details are available here

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Round two of ESF Community Grants Fund opens

Applications for round two of the?ESF Community Grants funding programme will be accepted from 15^th?November 2019 to 15th December 2019. Community Grants give small voluntary and community organisations with a turnover of less than ?500,000 an opportunity to access funds to deliver projects that help engage and progress ?hard to reach? individuals towards the labour market.

More details available from the Futures website.

UK cultural and media organisations remain eligible to apply to Creative Europe while the UK is still a member of the EU.

Funding opportunities currently include:

Support for European?Cooperation Projects has been announced with a deadline of Wednesday?27th November 2019.?This annual call supports cross-border arts, cultural and heritage projects. The summary of the call, the guidelines, the E-Forms and other compulsory documents?can be accessed on the EACEA website, and you can read an?8 step guide to applying here.

Single Projects - for European independent production companies looking to develop a project with international potential for cinema, television or digital platforms. Deadlines 13th November 2019 and 12th May 2020.

Video Games -?The development of narrative video games (from concept to the first version of a playable prototype), regardless of platform or expected distribution method, which are intended for commercial exploitation. Deadline 12th February 2020.

Supported by ERDF, the UpScaler?is open to a limited number of high-growth enterprises that are growing rapidly or planning to do so. Benefits of joining UpScaler include a diagnostic review of your business' unique scale-up challenges; access to customised and proven business support workshops and peer-to-peer events, and funding towards management coaching and hiring graduate talent.

You can read more information here.

The UK government has recently updated its guidance to UK organisations on continued Horizon 2020 participation, in light of the continued uncertainty related to Brexit.

In the context of Horizon 2020, the situation remains largely unchanged:

• If a deal is agreed, under the terms of any transition period Horizon 2020 participation shall continue as normal;
• If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the UK should be able to participate in Horizon 2020 as a non-EU country, supported by the UK government underwrite guarantee; noting that UK organisations will not be able to access schemes that are not open to third countries.

Full information can be found here.?