Partnership proposal Europe for Citizens Program – Action2 - Measure 3 Support to projects

Initiated by civil society organizations

EUROPEAN CITIZENS WITH NO FRONTIERS

Information on the call

This measure supports concrete projects initiated by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) established in participating countries, and working at European, national, regional or local level, on issues of common interest linked with the Program’s priorities and objectives. Projects under this measure must target themes of general European interest paying particular attention to the impact of the European policies.

N.G.O. CIVISplus

N.G.O CIVISplus is a Greek organization which cultivates awareness and promotes voluntary contribution to society. Its main activity is the organization of European and national programs to strengthen civil society, environmental protection, promotion of culture and the moral and material support to the less privileged members of society.We are planning to submit a project proposal on the program call by the 1st of February 2013.

Project Idea

Prolonged economic difficulties, resulting from the global financial crisis, may be leading Europeans to think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. However, while favorable opinions on European free movement rights are expressed, actual mobility levels within Europe tend to be relatively low. According a Eurobarometer published in 2010, only 10% of respondents has actually lived and worked abroad and 13% has been abroad for education or training. The main purpose of the project is to explore and highlight the most common obstacles to working or studying in another Member State.Το record the fears and hesitations of the European citizens and subsequently open a dialogue between the participating countries on how

N.G.O. CIVISplus28 Vasileos Georgiou B Street, 116 35, Athens, Greece, karka@civisplus.gr

to overcome the obstacles and open a safe way for European citizens to transmigration. The overall goal of the project is to create a European mobility culture by informing European citizens for their free movement rights and finding solutions against their fears and hesitations. .

Planned Activities

International meeting in Greece (2 participants per organiza-tion)

Action-researches to be conducted in each participating coun-try on good practices and problems related to European mo-bility.

Questionnaires distributed to each participating country for exploring the reasons making European citizens hesitate to move to another Member State.

Focus groups discussing the results of the local researches and selecting the five most frequent citizens’ fears for intra Europe mobility.

Transnational conference in Greece(2 participants per organi-zation) for exchanging of good practices, discussing the re-sults of the local researches. During the conference will be designed and created a website informing European citizens for their rights of free movement within Europe, the services offered in the participating countries, the Solvit centers, ECAS services, Eures and other sources for finding job or ed-ucational opportunities abroad. Also will be created a DVD and a declaration condenses our fears and hopes as European citizens concerning the facilitation of mobility within Europe.

Dissemination campaign in each participating country devel-oped through the following instruments:Press conferences presenting the materials produced and the project’s results.Leaflet on the project results to be disseminated both in hard copy and on line.Specific spaces on partners’ web sites, magazines, newslet-ters.Meetings with local, national and European leaders to pro-mote the proposals.Promotion of the webpage.

Partnership

We are looking for 12 civil society organizations – CSOs willing to join our proposal. According to the Europe for citizens guide Civil society organiza-tions (CSOs) include among others, trade unions, educational insti-

N.G.O. CIVISplus28 Vasileos Georgiou B Street, 116 35, Athens, Greece, karka@civisplus.gr

tutions and organizations active in the field of voluntary work and amateur sport (e.g. NGOs, umbrella organizations, networks, asso-ciations and federations, think tanks, universities, religious organi-zations).

Their role in the project activities is: To implement the action-research in their own country identi-

fying good practices and problems related to European mobil-ity.

To distribute the questionnaires. To organize focus groups in their own country; To take part in the international meeting and conference. To organize and implement the dissemination campaign. To ensure the visibility of the project and the Europe for citi-

zens program.

Estimated budgetOur organization will cover 100% of the accommodation and costs for two par-ticipants per partner organization, taking part in the international conference and meeting in Greece. Also Instead of 70% will cover 100% of the travel costs. All the material will be produced by our organization and partner organizations will have only to distribute them to their country.

Project Period

Our project will last for 6 months starting from 1ST September 2013 till 1st March 2014.

Deadline:Proposals must be submitted to the EU Commission by 1 February 2013; we ask partners to express their interest by 20 January 2012 .

ContactsFor further information please contact Karka Sofia, N.G.O. CIVISplus, email karka@civisplus.gr

N.G.O. CIVISplus28 Vasileos Georgiou B Street, 116 35, Athens, Greece, karka@civisplus.gr