How to keep abreast of published community calls? With this new post in our “frequently asked questions” column, we try to give some suggestions regarding a very important topic that is very much felt by many Europrojectors.
The world of European planning is constantly evolving and is by nature tied to timelines and deadlines: call publication dates, project preparation times, and proposal submission deadlines .
As evidenced by the success of our calls section, the issue is rightly perceived as a priority by most insiders.
How do we keep up to date and know in a timely manner (or when possible, in advance) about European calls of interest to us? Here are some suggestions for you!
- Start right now by “targeting” the EU programs that might be most interesting for your area of intervention-for example, LIFE and Horizon if you work in the environmental sector, Erasmus+ if you work in the educational sector, and so on. The texts of the EU programs provide for specific sub-areas of intervention, actions and areas, each tied to certain eligibility criteria, types and maximum funding shares. Knowing them will give you the ability to know which types of calls you need to monitor most carefully;
- In our community program fact sheets you will find dedicated links to “News,” “Calls for Proposals,” and “Documents” related to the program in question. In the “Documents” section you can find annual or multi-year work programs that provide indicative timelines for the publication of calls for proposals (see next item). You can add these pages to your browser’s “favorites” and consult them frequently. You will also be able to use features and extensions of some of the most popular browsers to keep up to date with changes on these pages;
- Many community programs have an annual or multi-year work program (workplan), which lists the indicative dates of publication of calls for proposals; other programs have large annual “calls” that contain within them the various deadlines related to (for example) the different “windows” for project submission or the different lines of intervention of the program. We recommend that you look for and use these workplans when available so that you can start your project preparation work even before the call is published;
- Indirectly managed calls(Structural Funds and Territorial Cooperation Programs) and related program documents have individual specificities, but the advice above applies to this type of call as well. Our Guide analyzes the various ROPs, NOPs and Territorial Cooperation Programs individually, following an analysis scheme similar to that of Community Programs. For them, too, you will in fact find, within the various tabs, links to external resources, program sites and pages of the Managing Authorities that you can monitor with particular attention to the geographic and thematic areas of greatest interest to your organization;
- There are many sites and platforms that act as a “collector” of published and expiring community calls for proposals: among them we mention in particular our Calls for Proposals Portal, the InfoBandi of CSVnet and the dedicated pages of the Funding&Tenders and OpenCoesione portals – indispensable tools for those working in the field.
As always, we also leave the floor to you: we will gladly publish your advice and suggestions.
Have a good update and best of luck!
