EU-NEWS

There is a new call for proposals VP/2001/005: Innovative measures under Article 6 of the European Social Fund Regulation: "Adaptation to the new economy within the framework of social dialogue".
You will find more information on this site;
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/employment_social/tender_en.htm

The eContent Programme has launched its first call for proposals, following the official release of the Work Programme. It invites for demonstration projects, definition phase projects and accompanying measures within the scope of its three action lines

(1) improving access to and use of public sector information;
(2) enhancing content production in a multilingual and multi-cultural environment;
(3) increasing dynamism in the digital content market.

The call text (2001/C 85/07) published in the Official Journal, C85, volume
44, 15. March 2001, the official Work Programme, and the associated information
pack can be downloaded from the programme's web service - http://www.cordis.lu/econtent

An Information Day will be held in Brussels on 26 April to present the
call for proposals. National Information Days will also be organised. Detailed
information about the events and a registration facility for the event
in Brussels are available at the programme's web
service http://www.cordis.lu/econtent

In addition to the eContent programme, the Action Plan on promoting safer
use of the Internet does invite for project proposals under

(1) a call for proposals for projects to demonstrate filtering software
and services 
(2) a new evaluation of proposals for hotlines

The closing date is 31.05.2001.  All necessary information on these calls
can be found at http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/iap/proposals/2001/calls.html

Vitamine W has just concluded the European research project "Including the Excluded" with an international seminar in Antwerp on the 8th of March.
Together with our Irish and Danish partners, we aimed to research the group which is not reached, and does not participate in any training, workexperience or employment project.  In each member state 100 non-participants were interviewed to gain an insight in why they did not want to, or were not able to participate.
The final report of this research project is available at Vitamine W.


Learning to learn for adults, a proposal for Leonardo Da Vinci pilot
projects has been preselected. We will now make a full proposal together
with NIVO (Brussels), Zukunftsbau (Berlin).