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Employment, Social Affairs & InclusionCall for proposals No. VP/2012/012ii. Identify the needs of the targeted young people versus one of the aboveoptions a), b) and c);iii. Design the measures and processes that would be needed to establish youthguarantee scheme(s) corresponding to these needs, that should cover inparticular 15 a job offer either locally or in another region or Member State 16 , atraineeship, an apprenticeship or any other activation measure allowing a firstwork experience and provide young people with holistic personalised guidanceand individual action planning;iv. Assess the capacity and assign the role of each memberorganisation/institution of the partnership in order to deliver the chosenscheme(s);v. Organise inter alia all necessary meetings, training sessions, awareness raisingactivities that will allow developing the capacity building of the respectiveactors;vi. Test the chosen scheme(s) with a group of the targeted young people;vii. Evaluate the results (success and failure factors) of the tested scheme(s).The testing phase mentioned above under vi) should represent the major part of theproject proposal.Furthermore, in order for the preparatory action to feed into the next programmingperiod of the Structural Funds, in particular of the ESF, each project should deliverresults that are replicable and transferable within and between Member States;therefore each project should provide analytical and methodological findings(including success and failure factors), focusing in particular on the nature of theestablished partnership, on its ability to deliver the planned activities and to ensurethe replication/transferability of the project's results.5.1 Role of applicant organisations/institutions and partnersIn order to establish the above mentioned partnerships, applicantorganisations/institutions should involve in the implementation of their proposed testcase/project other relevant stakeholders such as 17 national, regional or localauthorities, public, private or third sector employment services, ESF managingauthorities, education and vocational training institutions, universities, social partners,chambers of commerce, associations of employers, youth welfare and social services,youth clubs and associations, and any other relevant community actors.Letters of commitment from partners should specify their contribution, financial and/orotherwise to the project, as well as the nature of activities under their responsibility 18 .5.2 ParticipationApplicant organisations/institutions to this call cannot be individuals. Partnerorganisations will be from the same country, region or local area, depending on thelevel at which the test case/project will take place.Additional partners can be from different regions or local areas in the same country, iftheir participation will bring specific expertise and can help identifying relevant15 Non exhaustive list, to be adapted to the specific context of the project proposal.16In that respect, see the Commission’s pilot project “Your First Eures Job”:http://ec.europa.eu/yourfirsteuresjob17 Non exhaustive list – each application will have to demonstrate the relevance and the quality of theproposed partnership in relation to the specific group(s) of young people they are targeting18 See also sections 6 and 8.2 below as well as section 14 – Checklist, point 13August 2012 8
Employment, Social Affairs & InclusionCall for proposals No. VP/2012/012partnerships, or assessing the obstacles facing the established partnership and theways to overcome these, or identifying ways to deliver efficient and effective YouthGuarantee schemes, or taking part in the production of the project's analytical andmethodological findings mentioned above.However, despite the required partnership mentioned above, the application should besubmitted by one single applicant organisation/institution (see point 7.2 below).This organisation/institution will sign the grant agreement with the Commission,receive and manage the grant from the Commission and be responsible forimplementing and reporting to the Commission on the progress of the overall testcase/project.It will also ensure monitoring and evaluation of the project activities. In that respect,it will ensure that all members of the proposed partnership will take active part in theoverall external on-going evaluation exercise as well as in the valorisation conferenceforeseen under point 4.2.The Commission will deal only with the applicant organisation/institution.5.3 Type of activitiesIn order to deliver the tasks deemed necessary to implement the Youth Guaranteeschemes as described under the above point 5, the following type of activities will beeligible for EU funding:a) Design of a youth guarantee scheme, constitution and coordination of thepartnership to deliver the chosen scheme;b) Management of the project, including all activities needed by the partnership andits members to deliver the chosen approach (e.g. external expertise; workshops,seminars, training sessions and any other kind of meetings; where necessary,travel and accommodation);c) Any activity needed to support and manage the test phase -mentioned under point5 vii- with young people, including individualised services, travel andaccommodation costs for the group of young people;d) In-built evaluation of the project’s results and outcome, including the tested youthguarantee scheme and the corresponding partnership.5.4 Work organisation and follow-upThe grant agreement to be set up between the Commission and the selected applicantorganisations/institutions will be managed by Unit C.3 'Youth Employment,Entrepreneurship, Microfinances Facility' within the Directorate-General forEmployment, Social Affairs & Inclusion (DG EMPL) of the European Commission, whichwill be responsible for the overall implementation of the preparatory action. The Unitwill nominate a co-ordinator for the whole preparatory action and project managers,whose contact details will be provided to the respective selected projects.DG EMPL will organise co-ordination meetings for the monitoring of this preparatoryaction. These will include representatives of the European Commission and of theselected projects, as well as of the external evaluator. The first co-ordination meetingwill take place as from the date of signature of the grant agreements.August 2012 9
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