Expiration: ore 13 of the 30 September 2026
Social Enterprise with Children with an endowment of 15 million euros
Goals
The announcement “Opportunities for me, a better future. Second chance paths” aims to promote the individual and social development of girls and boys among the 14 and i 21 years at high risk of dropping out of school or who have already dropped out of ordinary education and training courses, with low levels of competence and low motivation. The objective is to reactivate their participation in learning paths, strengthen basic and transversal skills, support personal and relational growth and encourage reintegration into educational paths, training or job placement, through "second chance" experiences that are highly individualized and rooted in the educational communities of the territories.
What to finance
The proposals must create "second chance" courses for girls and boys 14 e 21 years at high risk of dropping out or who have already dropped out of ordinary education and training courses. Projects must foresee, for every boy/girl, individualized paths aimed at: reactivate participation in learning paths, strengthen basic and transversal skills, support personal and relational growth and encourage reintegration into educational paths, training or professionalising.
The initiatives must activate "educational sites", understood as multifaceted learning environments open to the territory, characterized by: inter-professional team; flexible learning settings (individual routes, in a small group, in a class group); methodologies oflearning by doing and laboratory teaching; ongoing skills assessments; educational agreements shared with the minor and family; psychological support for minors and families; work orientation, workshops and training internships; sporting activities, creative, of active citizenship and care; actions to strengthen the educational community and involve a heterogeneous network of local subjects. The activities must take place in a single region and preferably in places alternative to the school, however providing forms of collaboration with schools.
From a financial point of view, projects must:
- Request a contribution between 250.000 e 800.000 euro, including indirect costs (10% added automatically by the platform and not reportable).
- Guarantee monetary co-financing minimum of 10% of the cost project total.
- Include in the "Activities and costs" plan a specific item "External services - impact assessment" equal to 4% of the requested contribution.
- Foresee, if present, redevelopment/renovation expenses for real estate for a portion not exceeding 30% of the contribution requested and accompanied, for amounts ≥ 50.000 euros VAT included, by title of availability of the good, floor plan, photographs and estimate/metric calculation.
- Indirect costs equal to 10% of the contribution (recognized on a flat rate and not to be included or reported as specific cost items) they cover overheads such as: financial charges, depreciation, leasing, caparre, postal and bank commissions, stamp duty, contract registration fees, condominium expenses, agency commissions, fees and attendance tokens, general secretarial expenses, rents and leases, onerous loan for use, utilities (telephone, internet, gas, luce, water), maintenance of premises or machinery, travel expenses, food, accommodation and catering for events.
The overall duration of the projects must be between 36 e 48 months, with the start of activities by 90 days from the assignment of the contribution. All projects must include in the budget the resources necessary for technical and financial reporting, ongoing monitoring and communication activities (including the figure responsible for communication).
Who can participate
Only partnerships made up of at least three entities can submit projects(each identified by its own tax code and/or VAT number), who take an active role in the co-design and implementation of the project and identify a responsible person.
Responsible party
On the date of publication of the notice (10/06/2026) the responsible person must:
- Being a third sector body, established for at least two years in the form of a public deed or authenticated or registered private agreement.
- Be in possession of the requirements set out in the Third Sector Code (D.lgs. 117/2017).
- Be already registered in the Single National Register of the Third Sector (RUNTS); for entities with registration still under investigation, admissibility is subject to the positive outcome of registration, to be certified via the self-declaration form available on the platform, signed by the legal representative.
- Never having carried out activities in conflict with the aims of the "Fund to combat child educational poverty".
- Have registered office in the region of intervention of the project.
- Present only one project as responsible entity on this call and not be present as a partner in other projects on the same call (otherwise all projects are ineligible).
- Don't have more than one project in progress (already financed by With children) as responsible person for other Con i bambini tenders and initiatives; if you have one going on, can't handle more than 30% of the contribution requested in the new project.
Other entities in the partnership
La partnership deve:
- Include, In addition to the responsible person, at least one other third sector body, also subject to the provisions of the Legislative Decree. 117/2017 (for these entities the same rules on RUNTS and self-declaration apply in case of registration in the investigation).
- Being able to include, as additional partners, subjects belonging to: public institutions, schools, regional education and vocational training systems, university, Research centers, imprese for profit.
- Ensure that the participation of for-profit entities is not aimed at profit-seeking, but motivated by the offer of skills and resources for the growth of the territory and the local community.
- Respect the no-partner constraint (subject to the exceptions below) can participate in more than one proposal, under penalty of exclusion from all projects in which it appears.
- Allow public administrations (municipalities, regions, ASL, prison administration, educational institutions), universities and research centers to participate as partners in more than one proposal.
- Respect the specific constraint whereby schools can participate as partners in only one project proposal.
Furthermore, among the economic-managerial eligibility criteria of the partnership (which derive from the requirements of the subjects):
- No person in the partnership can manage more than 50% of the requested contribution (with the repeal of 30% for responsible subjects already financed on another call With children).
At least the 65% of the resources must be managed by third sector bodies(register RUNTS and comply with D.lgs. 117/2017).
