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Dept for Education and Employment

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Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful attempts have been made by United Kingdom organisations in the last four years to obtain funds from (i) the EU's promotion of training and mobility of researchers, (ii) Youth for Europe, (iii) Leonardo da Vinci, (iv) Socrates, (v) NOW, (vi) Youthstart, (vii) Integra, (viii) Adapt and (ix) Horizon schemes; and what funds have been allocated to the United Kingdom under each of these schemes. [12339] Mr. Paice: The information is not available in the exact form requested. The tables set out the information that is available for each scheme. However, full information on projects funded in individual member states by the framework programme, including the training and mobility of researchers programme, is held only by the Commission. Thus, information on the numbers of successful and unsuccessful applications and the precise funds allocated to each member state are not available. The current programme "Youth for Europe III" started in 1995 and the following information is available. Information on the funding of the centralised part of the programme is available from the Commission. The decentralised part of YFE III is administered on a national basis. Youth for Europe III _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Successful groups Successful participants Unsuccessful groups Total groups 1995 YFE III Decentralised Actions 801 11,176 40 841 Centralised Actions 48 Not applicable 35 83 1996 YFE III Decentralised Actions 522 7,725 26 548 Centralised Actions {1}-- Not applicable {1}-- {1}-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Interim figures not available at short notice. Funding: Decentralised part of the programme. 1995: 1.273 MECU for youth exchange activities; .158 MECU for youth worker training. 1996: 1.290 MECU for Youth Exchange activities; .174 MECU for youth worker training. Figures for the Leonardo da Vinci programme are available from 1995, when the programme began, and are as follows: Leonardo da Vinci _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Programme year Total applications Successful projects Unsuccessful Percentage funded UK receipts{1} projects (ECU) 1995 825 219 606 27 15,967,783 1996 667 284 383 43 18,784,071 Combined totals 1,492 503 989 34 34,751,854 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} The majority of funds are allocated on the basis of successful projects being approved. A small proportion of the funding is allocated as a block grant. Figures for the SOCRATES programme are available from 1995, when the programme began, and are as follows: SOCRATES _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Programme funding Total applications Successful projects {1}in £000 1995 Centralised {2}134 projects 68 2,962 Decentralised {3}2,429 participants 1,795 1,741 Decentralised {4}26,933 mobility grants 11,734 7,668 12,371 1996 Centralised 145 projects 84 4,301 Decentralised 3,507 participants 2,824 {5}4,403 Decentralised 26,259 mobility grants {6}-- 7,447 16,151 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. SOCRATES projects are transnational and can be divided into centralised and decentralised actions. For decentralised actions the UK is allocated a block sum by formula to distribute amongst UK participants. For centralised actions there is no separate UK allocation, rather the funding for the projects is shared between participant organisations. The figures shown for SOCRATES centralised actions represent the funding made available for transnational projects co-ordinated by UK organisations. {1} In January 1997 1 ecu = £0.7373. {2} Includes ERASMUS Thematic Networks, COMENIUS 2 and 3(i), LINGUA actions A and D, Open and Distance Learning, and Adult Education. {3} Individual participants in LINGUA, ARION and COMENIUS 1 and 3(ii) projects. {4} Individual student mobility grants under ERASMUS. {5} 1996 figures still provisional. {6} Figure not yet available for 1996-97. HORIZON, NOW, ADAPT AND EMPLOYMENT _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Programme Successful projects Unsuccessful projects GB budget allocation GB budget allocation (ECU) 1990-1994 (ECU) 1995-1999 HORIZON 219 Not Available 15,670,468 -- NOW 96 Not Available 5,415,658 -- ADAPT 80 131 -- 313,282,000 EMPLOYMENT 230 400 -- -- HORIZON Disability (66) Not Available -- 44,710,000 HORIZON {2}(33) Not available -- 38,146,000 Disadvantaged/Integra{1} NOW (79) Not Available -- 48,781,000 YOUTHSTART (52) Not Available -- 42,245,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. In 1995 the new EMPLOYMENT Community Initiative was launched with HORIZON, NOW strands and a new YOUTHSTART strand. For the first round (1995-1997) there were these three strands with the HORIZON, strand being further divided into Disadvantaged and Disability. For the second round (closing date for applications 11 April 1997) the HORIZON Disadvantage strand has been replaced by INTEGRA. {1} HORIZON Disadvantaged round 1/INTEGRA round 2. {2} Round 1 only.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

12339; 289 c152-4W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

EU grants and loans Training Research Youth training Leonardo da Vinci programme Socrates programme Youth for Europe Horizon grants ADAPT initiative NOW initiative

Contains statistics

Yes