Sport for People and Planet - a new approach on sustainability through sport in Europe
Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- PPPA-SPORT-2023-PEOPLE-PLANET
- Programme
- Pilot Project - Sport for People and Planet - a new approach on sustainability through sport in Europe
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- July 26, 2023
- Deadline
- October 17, 2023
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €1,428,465
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- PPPA-SPORT-2023-PEOPLE-PLANETPPPA-SPORT-2023-PEOPLE-PLANET
Description
The expected results include:
- collecting and sharing knowledge on new behavioural approaches needed to make the sport sector more environmentally sustainable;
- develop approaches and toolkit to be used by sport organisations to become influential leaders in environmental transformation;
- investigate new approaches allowing sport to become a model of sustainability especially for European young generation;
- present and implement socially and environmentally sustainable solutions for sport events.
The expected results include:
- collecting and sharing knowledge on new behavioural approaches needed to make the sport sector more environmentally sustainable;
- develop approaches and toolkit to be used by sport organisations to become influential leaders in environmental transformation;
- investigate new approaches allowing sport to become a model of sustainability especially for European young generation;
- present and implement socially and environmentally sustainable solutions for sport events.
The action should focus on examples of inspirational behaviour and practices at grassroots level that can be multiplied and on methods to engage citizens and sport stakeholders in communities to co-create and cooperate on sustainable sport practices. The objectives of the proposed project are to:
- raise awareness, inspire behaviour, and lead the thinking in European society on how sport can enable and accelerate social and environmental transformation;
- engage EU citizens to actively participate in sustainable measures using the communicative power of sport, its major events and leading role models.
Actions supported under this project will contribute to the implementation of the New European Bauhaus initiative.
Scope:The action should focus on examples of inspirational behaviour and practices at grassroots level that can be multiplied and on methods to engage citizens and sport stakeholders in communities to co-create and cooperate on sustainable sport practices. The objectives of the proposed project are to:
- raise awareness, inspire behaviour, and lead the thinking in European society on how sport can enable and accelerate social and environmental transformation;
- engage EU citizens to actively participate in sustainable measures using the communicative power of sport, its major events and leading role models.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
Conditions
All admissibility and eligibility conditions are laid out in the Call Document and must be strictly respected.
1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below)
Proposals must be submitted before the call deadline (see timetable section 4).
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section. Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System (
NOT the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
- Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
- Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)
- Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (templates available to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded):
- detailed budget table/calculator (template available in the Submission System)
- CVs of core project team: not applicable
- activity reports of last year: not applicable
- list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B)
Your application must be readable, accessible and printable.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
Proposals are limited to maximum 40 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.
2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below)
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs).
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below)
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established (have a registered legal office) in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- be an organisation active in the field of sport (such as a sport federation or club), with legal personality (public or private body).
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc (see section 13).
Consortium composition:
Both applications by single applicants and proposals submitted by a consortium are allowed.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below)
- Submission and evaluation processes: described sections 8 and 11 of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below) and the Online Manual
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below)
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below)
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document (see link in the "Documents" section below)
Documents
Application form - The application form is available in the Submission System
Detailed budget table - The detailed budget table is available in the Submission System
EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Commission Decision authorising the use of unit costs for volunteers - C(2019)2646
Commission Decision authorising the use of unit costs for the personnel costs of the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises - C(2020)7115
Commission Decision authorising the use of unit costs for travel, accomodation and subsistence costs - C(2023)4928
Support & Resources
For help related to this call, please contact: [email protected]
Funding & Tenders Portal – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
|
|
PPPA-SPORT-2023-PEOPLE-PLANET |
|
Number of proposals submitted |
92 |
|
Number of inadmissible proposals |
3 |
|
Number of ineligible proposals |
3 |
|
Number of above-threshold proposals |
82 |
|
Number of proposals proposed for funding |
4 |
The following projects were retained for funding:
|
Proposal number |
Project acronym |
Project title |
Beneficiary |
Country |
Maximum EU grant awarded |
|
101161089 |
FUTURE |
Football Used as a Tool to edUcate childRen on sustainablE behaviours |
LATVIJAS FUTBOLA FEDERACIJA |
LV |
337.612,00 € |
|
101161332 |
Fit4Green |
Fit for Green |
EUSA INSTITUTE |
SI |
242.643,00 € |
|
101160830 |
MASCOT |
Minifootball addressing sustainability challenges through overall transformation |
EVROPSKA FEDERACE MALE KOPANE |
CZ |
213.589,00 € |
|
101161202 |
PATHWAY |
Paving pATHs toWards footbAll’s sustainabilitY |
CYPRUS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION |
CY |
388.990,00 € |
The COMMISSION DECISION authorising the use of unit costs for travel, accommodation and subsistence costs has been updated
The final version of Model Grant Agreement (MGA) for the Call PPPA-SPORT-2023-PEOPLE-PLANET can be found at the following link: