La recente pubblicazione di un Corrigendum al bando europeo DEAR – Raising public awareness of development issues and promoting development education – ha di fatto messo fine a una sorta di caccia all’Applicant che negli ultimi dieci giorni si era scatenata tra le organizzazioni della società civile europea attive nel mondo dell’educazione alla cittadinanza globale e dell’awareness sui temi dello sviluppo globale. Avevano fatto discutere infatti alcuni requisiti molto selettivi fissati da Devco rispetto all’eleggibilità dell’organizzazione proponente. Il bando chiedeva che il lead Applicant di ogni proposta progettuale potesse dimostrare, attraverso la compilazione di appositi allegati, le proprie capacità ed esperienze pregresse in materia di Communication and outreach strategy, Social media capability e produzione di video. Richieste stringenti che avrebbero tagliato fuori la maggior parte delle OSC europee dalla possibilità di essere capofila di una progettazione. Il Corrigendum di fatto estende la maggior parte dei requisiti richiesti all’intera partnership anziché al singolo lead Applicant.
Ecco di seguito le modifiche apportate al bando:
Section 1.2.3 Priority issues (4)
Applicants are therefore encouraged to involve also communication experts. They could be involved as a co-applicant, an associate or as a contractor. In this context, we would like to draw your attention to the special requirements included for the applicant to demonstrate:
1) Social media capabilities to successfully implement innovative communication activities (Annex XI) and capability to produce a powerful video,
2) Capability to successfully organise “street actions
These communication capabilities should be demonstrated by the lead-applicant for itself and the communication and outreach strategy is to be provided by the lead-applicant for the consortium. These points will be assessed under point 1.2 and 3.2. of the Full Application evaluation grid.
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Applicants are therefore encouraged to involve also communication experts. They could be involved as a co-applicant, an associate or as a contractor. In this context, we would like to draw your attention to the special requirements included for the applicants (lead applicant and co-applicants) to demonstrate:
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These communication capabilities and the communication and outreach strategy should be demonstrated by the partnership as a whole. These points will be assessed under point 1.2 and 3.2. of the Full Application evaluation grid.
Section 1.2.4 Eligible actions
These communication capabilities should be demonstrated by the lead-applicant for itself and the communication and outreach strategy is to be provided by the lead-applicant for the consortium.
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These communication capabilities and the communication and outreach strategy should be demonstrated by the partnership as a whole. These points will be assessed under point 1.2 and 3.2. of the Full Application evaluation grid.
Section 2.2.5 Full applications
Viene modificato il punto (4) come segue:
4. The full application has to document the capabilities of the partnership to successfully implement innovative communication activities. Hence, the lead applicant has to submit as part of the Full Application
a) Documented social media capabilities: To be demonstrated by the lead applicant and/or co-applicants in Annex XI (Part 1). This information will be used to assess the capability of the partnership to deploy innovative communication activities.
b) Documented capability to produce powerful video: To be demonstrated by the lead applicant and/or co-applicants in Annex XI (Part 2) by providing the link (e.g. webaddress) to a video of minimum 20 seconds produced and published on the internet (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, or other).
c) Documented “success stories” of two street actions which took place in a public space in the last 24 months, with the purpose to mobilise citizens and realized by the lead applicant and/or co-applicants (in Annex XII).
