Issues to solve before working on the actual application.
Hey, just saw this. I can’t join you guys as I’m away from the city during this weekend… But can definitely help as I’ve been through this before.
Alberto is right, we can use a lot of content from our Policy Hero Challenge Application, and here are some points I drew from reading the Programme Guide (see p.143 for eligibility and allocation of funds):
- Number of participating organisations: For international meetings, the activity must involve at least two participating organisations from at least two different countries
- Venue: The project must take place in the country of the applicant organisation.
- Eligible participants: Young participants: young people aged between 13 and 30 from the countries involved in the project. Decision-makers: if the project foresees the participation of decision-makers or experts in the youth policy field, these participants can be involved regardless of their age and geographical provenance.
- Minimum 30 young participants must be involved in the project.
- Maximum Grant Awarded: 50000 EURO
- Travel grants for participants are given based on the distance - example: For travel distances between 100 and 499 KM: 80 EUR per participant ; For travel distances between 500 and 1999 KM: 170 EUR per participant
It almost duplicates the structure for Youth in Action, and the main issue that I see: We need to make sure we have at least 2 partners in every country we suspect Edgeryders joining Lote4 would come from! This was an issue in our former application, and it is now too because you need to decide in advance how many ERs in each country, so you are in fact limiting funded participation and highly restricts the variety of people joining. The more countries and nationalities you include, the more partners: :-(
Guess what: It’s also the British Council in the UK who is managing the application process as a National Agency:
It seems they require the applicant to be registered at the European Commission Authentication Service (ECAS) http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/how-to-apply
Also need to mention that we need to get the partners well in advance. If their procedure will be same as last year, the person running the application on behalf of Edgeryders (a resident in UK who can sign the application and be the contact person!! not sure Noel can sign an Edgeryders application?) needs to collect all signed partnership agreements in original. They don’t accept scanned copies!
So my suggestion is that we first make sure we can meet all of these conditions and have someone to coordinate this, participate in the British Council webinars or send inquiries with list of questions we might have. Then rephrase the application we had based on input about Lote4 - which by the way will need to happen in the UK (Edgeryders LBG registered there + see bullet point #2 above). I can’t coordinate this as I can’t sign for ER, being based in Romania, but will help as much as possible!