European Commission has announced the applications for Youth Inclusion in Jordan’s Development Process to build a sense of belonging among youth capable of creativity, innovation, and greater productivity through emphasizing active participation and citizenship, justice and equal opportunities, continuous learning, and entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment of young people.

The twofold aim of this call for proposals is firstly to strengthen the position of youth in society by providing them with support opportunities to increase their career and market entry. It distinctly invests in the role of the private sector, being the employer of the majority of Jordan’s youth talent.

Secondly, it aims to provide young educated/skilled people with support opportunities to advance the common good by implementing youth actions for community development with an emphasis on urban, economic, environmental, and industrial sustainable development solutions. The call has a distinct role for higher academic institutions (public/private colleges and universities) to become agents of local and regional economic development and engines of innovation. Academic institutions will exploit new local development opportunities emanating from the campus, will engage in transferring knowledge from universities to local industries, and will possibly support patenting students’ new ideas.

Objectives

• The global objectives of this call for proposals are to contribute to the improvement of young people’s participation in the labour market and to foster their role in the development of their local communities.
• The specific objectives of this call for proposals are
  • To increase young skilled/educated youth participation in the labour market by providing employment and self-employment services and opportunities in growing economic sectors (e.g. ICT-based, green, and creative industries).
  • Fostering young people’s role in the development of their local communities.

Priorities

• The priorities of this call for proposals are
  • For SO 1:
    • Opportunities for young people to build a sustainable and rewarding career in growing economic sectors
    • Improving the quality and efficiency of job training and employment creation
    • Offering mentoring and access to enterprise networks
    • Forging partnerships for scaling-up investments in youth abilities
  • For SO 2 :
    • Ideas and actions implemented by college and university students for community development addressing persisting and current challenges or needs related to sustainable development.

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 6,500,000.

Indicative allocation of funds by lot/geographical distribution:

• Lot 1: Increasing Youth Participation in the Labour Market – The Centre excluding Amman (Governorates of Balqa, Zarqa, Madaba and Karak) (EUR 2,500,000)
• Lot 2: Increasing Youth Participation in the Labour Market – The South (Governorates of Karak, Tafileah, Ma’an and Aqaba) (EUR 2,500,000).
• Lot 3: Fostering Youth People’s Role in Local communities (EUR 1,500,000)

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• For lot 1 and 2
  • minimum amount:  EUR 1,250,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 2,500,000
• For lot 3
  • minimum amount: EUR 500,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 500,000

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:

• For lot 1 and 2
  • Minimum percentage: 60 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
  • Maximum percentage: 90 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
• For lot 3
  • Minimum percentage: 60 % of the total eligible costs of the action.
  • Maximum percentage: 95 % of the total eligible costs of the action.