European Projects

Access Europe is an EU funding support and capacity building service for Irish civil society, coordinated by The Wheel and funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The Wheel is working with social economy partners across 10 countries on this European Commission-backed project focused on the social economy skills agenda.

The Wheel are delighted to continue working alongside the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland (EPLO) to deliver this programme for a further four years. The aim of the programme is to increase awareness of Europe, democracy and political choice among young people across the EU.

The Wheel operates a European Project Managers Network to support peer-to-peer learning and support in this area. The network meets quarterly.

SPACE is an Erasmus+ funded project that seeks to build the capacities of academics, professional staff and community partners to strengthen community engagement in higher education in Europe.

The INSPIRE project kicked off in October 2024 and supports sustainable and inclusive development of European rural areas by promoting social wellbeing and inclusion of rural dwellers and vulnerable groups.

This Erasmus+ funded project will build the skills of social economy organisations to partner in projects with research institutes

Access Europe Phase 1 was a joint initiative of thirteen grantees of the Atlantic Philanthropies. It ran from 2014 to 2017

The Wheel is the Irish national contact point for the EU’s Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) funding programme, which aims to support employment, social policy and labour mobility across the EU.

EU engage is funded by the European Parliament Directorate General for Communication and ran from January 2020 – June 2022.

The Europe for Citizens Programme was the European Commission’s funding programme to promote understanding between the Union and its citizens.

Europe’s Future aims to build on learning gathered from The Wheel’s previous European Parliament projects funded by DGCOMM by focusing on voter activation among young people, rural communities, and the voluntary, charity and social enterprise sector in advance the 2019 European Elections.

The Wheel participated in two other European Parliament funded projects.

Foundations 4 Sector 3 (F4S3) is an induction training programme for the nonprofit community. Designed for people who have recently started working in the sector, including new entrants, recent college graduates, or those who have made a career change.

The key objective of this Erasmus+ funded project is to highlight the importance of, engage with and assist to improve and revitalize the social mission and business model and activities of LESE (long established social economy) organisations.

A free, online training programme that provides valorised training in the fundamentals of Governance, Fundraising, Risk Management, Financial Management and Communications.

Birlikte-Together for rights-based CSOs in Turkey” is a project designed by STGM, the Association of Civil Society Development Center in Turkey