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| 8.3.2006 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 56/12 |
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8.3.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 56/12

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SOCRATES PROGRAMME

SOCRATES PROGRAMME

Second phase (2000-2006)

Call for proposals EAC/12/06

‘Awarding of grants for dissemination and exploitation activities (Conferences/Seminars) for the Exploitation of Results from Socrates Projects’

Notice of publication of a call for proposals on the Internet

(2006/C 56/11)

1.   Objectives and Description

The aim of the call for proposals is to award grants for activities to promote the dissemination and exploitation of results of Socrates Projects. The action should consist of the following three stages. Support will be given only to proposals fulfilling the requirements of all three stages:

| 1) | Preparatory stage: Identifying and matching of users' needs and selected project results. On the basis of analyses of identified users' needs, products and results from a minimum of 3 different Socrates projects, from 3 different countries, should be identified and selected for promotion and exploitation. |
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1)

Preparatory stage: Identifying and matching of users' needs and selected project results. On the basis of analyses of identified users' needs, products and results from a minimum of 3 different Socrates projects, from 3 different countries, should be identified and selected for promotion and exploitation.

Preparatory stage: Identifying and matching of users' needs and selected project results.

a minimum of 3 different Socrates projects

3 different countries

| 2) | Organisation of an event. Organisation of a conference/workshops/interactive ‘matching sessions’ to bring together supply and demand. Interactive exchanges between the project coordinators and the users should take place with the aim of facilitating the transfer and exploitation of the project results to meet new users' needs. |
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2)

Organisation of an event. Organisation of a conference/workshops/interactive ‘matching sessions’ to bring together supply and demand. Interactive exchanges between the project coordinators and the users should take place with the aim of facilitating the transfer and exploitation of the project results to meet new users' needs.

Organisation of an event.

| 3) | Final stage: Follow-up activities. Proposals of follow-up actions facilitating the transfer and developing indicators for measuring the impact of the event. |
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3)

Final stage: Follow-up activities. Proposals of follow-up actions facilitating the transfer and developing indicators for measuring the impact of the event.

Final stage: Follow-up activities.

2.   Eligible Applicants

Submission of grant requests under this call is open to universities, teacher training institutes, schools, organisations for adult education, European, national, regional, local, sectoral and intermediary organisations or companies, including European networks, meeting the eligibility criteria, working in the field of education and training and wishing to organise a dissemination and exploitation event in the specific areas covered by this call for proposals. Applicants should be legally established for more than 3 years; and must be established in one of the following countries:

The 25 EU Member States, the states of EFTA/EEA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway), or the candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey).

3.   Budget and Project Duration

The budget available for this call is EUR 700 000. On the basis of this amount, the Directorate General for Education and Culture envisages supporting projects with a maximum grant of not exceeding 100 000 EUR, to a maximum of 75 % of eligible costs. Some 10 to 20 % of the budget must be allocated for financing follow-up activities (Stage 3).

EUR 700 000

Activities must start between 1 November 2006 and 31 December 2006.

The maximum duration of projects should in principle not exceed 12 months.

4.   Deadline

Applications must be sent to the Commission no later than 28 April 2006.

28 April 2006.

5.   Further Information

The full text of the call for proposals and the application forms are available on the following website:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/download_en.html#call

Applications must comply with the requirements set out in the full text and be submitted using the form provided.

For more information, please contact: EAC-B1-CALL-EAC/12/06@cec.eu.int

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