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Calls for proposals

The Commission awards grants to projects selected following the adoption of the annual Work Programme and the launch of a call for proposals.

Available funding

The total amount available for funding is detailed in the corresponding annual Work Programme.

Who can submit a proposal?

The call for proposals under Safer Internet programme are open to all legal entities established in the Member States. Legal entities established in EFTA States which are contracting parties to the EEA Agreement (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) may also take part.

Legal entities established in other countries may take part under the conditions set out in Article 2 of the Programme Decision, provided that the country signs a bilateral agreement to join the programme.

Legal entities established in non-EU countries other than those referred to above and international organisations may take part in all projects at their own expense.

Open calls

Call for proposals 2012

The call for proposals under the Safer Internet programme has been launched on 1.02.2012. The call announcement was published in the Official Journal C 27 on 01.02.2012. The call has a fixed deadline of 29 March 2012.

See privacy statement for submission of proposals.

Please note that actions 1.1 – Safer Internet Centres of the 2012 call for proposals will be open only for the following countries:

Action

Country

1.1 Safer Internet Centres

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom and Russia

This action is further open to legal entities established in third countries under the conditions set out in article 2 of the Programme Decision*.

* If proposals submitted by legal entities from these countries are selected for funding, a grant agreement will only be signed once the necessary steps have been taken for the country concerned to join the Programme through signature of a bilateral agreement.

Work Programme 2012 (detailed objectives, priorities and an indicative timetable for the implementation)

Call text 2012

(as published in the Official Journal C 27 p.5 on 01.02.2012)

Please note that in case of discrepancies between the different language versions, the English version is the original version and therefore takes precedence.

Model Grant Agreement (250 KB)

How to submit a proposal?

Guide for proposers 2012

The Guide for Proposers is part of the information necessary to make a project proposal in response to the Safer Internet 2012 call for proposals. It provides guidance on how to prepare and submit a proposal.
It is accompanied by appendices containing the mandatory proposal submission forms (Parts A, B and C).
This guide contains the following documents, available only in English:

Guide for proposers

Form instructions

Part A for proposal co-ordinator and parts A and C for each participant

Specific forms (depending on the type of project)

All call documentation:

How will the proposal be evaluated?

Guidance notes for evaluators

This document contains guidance notes for experts evaluating proposals received in response to Safer Internet 2012 call for proposals. Potential proposers may wish to read it for an overview of the evaluation process.

Individual assessment reports

These are documents that evaluators are expected to fill in according to the different types of projects they would be assessing.

Individual assessment report for Safer Internet Centres projects
Individual assessment report for Targeted projects
Individual assessment report for Thematic networks
Individual assessment report for Knowledge enhancement projects: action 4.1
and action 4.2

How to get help?

Frequently Asked Questions >>

The pre-proposal service for the call for proposals is now closed.

Preparing a pre-proposal

Before developing a full proposal, prospective proposers may make use of the (optional) pre-proposal service by submitting an outline description of no more than three pages using the following pre-proposal form.

Pre-proposals are welcome in the following formats: Text, Word, RTF files and can be sent by e-mail to Safer Internet helpdesk

Pre-proposal form

Please send pre-proposals early enough so that you have time to take account of the Commission's comments when writing the full proposal.
The Commission will give comments as quickly as possible. Those sending pre-proposals will receive an acknowledgement with a target date for the Commission reply.

Please note that replies to pre-proposals submitted after 16 March 2012 might not arrive in time to be of use for the development of a full proposal. The Commission reserves the right to suspend this service if the number of pre-proposals received means that further pre-proposals could not be dealt with properly.

Note that the Commission comments are purely indicative and not binding. They do not pre-empt the evaluation of any subsequent full proposal, the Commission services do not guarantee that any subsequent full proposal will be accepted or, if accepted, selected. The Commission services will not divulge any information about outline proposals to third parties.

Requests for redress

You have received an "initial information letter", together with the Evaluation Summary Report (ESR), showing the outcome of the evaluation by experts of your proposal or, you may have received the results of the eligibility checks.

Before one month from the receipt of the Commission's letter, you may submit a request for redress if you feel that there has been a shortcoming in the way your proposal has been evaluated that may affect the final decision on whether to fund it or not, or if you believe the results of the eligibility checks are incorrect.

An internal review committee of the Commission will examine requests for redress. The committee's role is to ensure a coherent interpretation of such requests, and equal treatment of applicants.

Requests must be:

• Related to the evaluation process, or eligibility checks, as described in part 6 of the Work Programme.

• Set out using the form below, including a clear description of the grounds for complaint.

• Received within the time limit specified on the initial information letter you have received.

• Sent by the co-ordinator

This committee will review your case and will recommend an appropriate course of action to the Commission services responsible for the call for proposals concerned. If there is clear evidence that a shortcoming that could affect the eventual funding decision, it is possible that all or part of the proposal will be re-evaluated.

Please note:

• This procedure is concerned with the evaluation and/or eligibility checking process. The committee will not call into question the scientific or technical judgement of appropriately qualified experts.

• A re-evaluation will only be carried out if there is evidence of a shortcoming that affects the final decision on whether to fund it or not. This means, for example, that a problem relating to one evaluation criterion will not lead to a re-evaluation if a proposal has failed anyway on other criteria.

• The evaluation score following any re-evaluation will be regarded as definitive. It may be lower than the original score.

Only one request for redress per proposal will be considered by the committee.
All requests for redress will be treated in confidence.

If you have any questions about the redress process, please contact: saferinternet@ec.europa.eu
Finally, the Commission counts on your cooperation not to send in speculative requests for redress. Unless there is clear evidence of a shortcoming there will be no follow-up or re-evaluation. Unfounded requests will only serve to waste time and resources that would otherwise be devoted to ensuring a smooth implementation of the Safer Internet Programme.

A reply will be sent within one month of the deadline for redress requests indicated in the initial information letter. If a definitive response cannot be given at that stage, this reply will indicate when a definitive response will be provided. The Commission does not undertake to engage in any further discussion about the evaluation of your proposal beyond the definitive response.

Request for redress

Closed calls

You can consult the full list of Safer Internet closed calls for proposals