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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.

Legal entities established in Russia may take part in Action 1.1 (Safer Internet Centres) of the 2009 call for proposals under the conditions specified in the Work Programme

Open calls

The call for proposals under the Safer Internet programme was launched on 11 June 2009. The call announcement was published in the Official Journal C 132/09 on 11.06.2009. Please note that the call has a fixed deadline of 19 November 2009

The 2009 Work programme and the criteria and content of the call for proposals were adopted by the Commission on 29.5.2009. No substantial changes have been made to the final versions of the Work programme and the Call text compared to the draft versions previously published.

See privacy statement for submission of proposals

Work Programme 2009

(detailed objectives, priorities and an indicative timetable for the implementation) (pdf 150 kb)

Call text 2009

(as published in the Official Journal C 132/09 p.10 on 11.06.2009) (pdf 816 kb)

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

Read the call for proposals 2009 in your own language (please use the language toolbar on top of the page)

Corrigendum to the call for proposals 2009 published in the Official Journal C 138 of 18 June 2009, p.15

Amendment of call for proposals 2009 (regarding the reinforcement of the budget for the 2009 call by appropriations from the 2010 budget) (as published in the Official Journal C 261/15 p.28 on 31.10.2009)

Model Grant Agreement: (250 KB)

How to submit a proposal?

Guide for proposers 2009

The Guide for Proposers is part of the information necessary to make a project proposal in response to the Safer Internet 2009 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:

For all types of projects

Guide for proposers (641 KB)

Form instructions (552 KB)

Part A (48 KB) and part C proposal forms (70 KB)

Specific forms (depending on the type of project)

Part B for Safer Internet Centres (830 KB)
Part B for European co-ordination of Safer Internet Centres (733 KB)
Part B for NGOs thematic network (559 KB)
Part B for Knowledge enhancement projects (480 KB)

All call documentation: (one compressed file) (zip 1.3 MB)

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 2009 call for proposals. Potential proposers may wish to read it for an overview of the evaluation process.

(332 KB)

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 (474 KB)
Individual assessment report for European co-ordination of Safer Internet Centres projects (386 KB)
Individual assessment report for thematic networks (271 KB)
Individual assessment report for knowledge enhancement projects (399 KB)

How to get help?

Frequently Asked Questions >>

The pre-proposal service for the call for proposals is open as from now.

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 (click on the link)

Download the pre-proposal form (.rtf 60kb)

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 6 November 2009 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.

Closed calls

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