Transcript EU Funding - Law Centres Network

EU Funding
For Law Centres
Pamela Fitzpatrick and Flora Williams
Considerations:
• EU funding programmes run on a seven
year-cycle
• New cycle starts 2014-2020 (Europe 2020
Strategy)
• Commission is looking to fund innovative
projects that build on previously funded
initiatives
Funding opportunities from 2014
• Combating Crime and protecting rights
• Investing in education and promoting
creativity
• Smart Growth and sustainable development
Combating Crime and Protecting Rights
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Crime and Justice
Domestic Violence and Discrimination
Migrants and Refugees
Heath and drug prevention
Employment and Social Inclusion
Domestic Violence
• More than 430 million Euro over 7 years
• Funding targeted at:
– Promoting and protecting the rights of the child
– Protecting women from violence
– Promoting the implementation of the principle of
non discrimination
– Encouraging the exercise of the rights deriving
from the citizenship of the Union
Domestic Violence What will be funded?
• Developing training for professionals working
with vulnerable children
• Enhancing children’s understanding of rights
• Raising awareness of gender based violence
• Identifying gaps in provision of specialist
support services
• Fighting hate speech and discrimination
• Promoting equality between men and women
Migrants and Refugees
• 3.9 billion Euros
• Funding awarded to projects:
– Promoting the integration of third-country
nationals
– Contributing to the implementation of the
Common European Asylum System
– Developing and implementing resettling
programmes
– Supporting sustainable returns
Migrants and refugees
What type of projects will be funded?
• Delivering training to third country nationals
• Supporting third-country nationals to access public
services
• Improving reception conditions and asylum procedures
in Member States
• Improving legal and social assistance available to
asylum seekers
• Supporting empowerment of and acquisition of skills
by refugees
Health and Drug Prevention
• 500 million Euro available
• Funding targeted at:
– Protecting the EU from cross border health threats
– Helping Member States to respond to economic
and demographic challenges facing their health
systems
– Improving the health of the EU citizens
– Preventing and reducing drug demand
Health and Prevention
What type of projects?
• Identifying cost-effective prevention measures
addressing health risk factors
• Developing guidelines to improve access to and
quality of healthcare
• Promoting healthy aging across the life cycle
• Raising awareness of the problems caused by
drug use
Employment and Social inclusion
• 815 million Euros available
• Funding targeted at:
– Contributing to the implementation of EU law
– Improving social protections systems
– Facilitating the transition from unemployment and
education to work
Employment and Social Inclusion
What will be funded?
• Improving the provision of quality childcare
• Developing partnerships between training
providers, educational institutions and
employers to provide quality traineeship
• Improving quality of employment guidance
services
• Increasing career progression opportunities
• Developing evidence based policy
Investing in education and promoting
creativity
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19 Billion available
Help young people gain more and better skills
Enhance teaching quality in the EU
Promote youth participation n society
The Role of LCN
• Set up a European Funding Support Network
for Law Centres who are interested in
participating in European funded projects
Considerations
• Projects may not always directly relate to face
to face legal advice but could be e.g. Training
or PLE on social welfare issues such as
discrimination.
• Law Centre must be prepared to contribute
match funding
• Law Centre must be prepared to deliver
project outputs and all reports e.t.c
LCN will provide:
• Training and run workshops on relevant topics
• Give regular updates on EU Funding
opportunities as they arise
• Provide support to individual Law Centres who
may wish to go it alone
• Devise appropriate projects with input from
Law Centres
• To join the European Funding Support
Network or for more information, please
contact:
• Flora Williams or Pam Fitzpatrick
• [email protected] Tel: 07590050898 or
• [email protected]
Tel: 0208 863 4355