Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Prerogatives are tasks resulting from specific powers directly conferred by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to the European Commission.
The prerogatives budget lines managed by the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion deal with social dialogue, labour mobility as well as analysis of the social situation, demographics and the family.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
This call aims at strengthening the capacity of workers’ organisations to address, at EU/transnational level, challenges related to changes in employment and work and social dialogue.
Detailed Call Description
Actions that address the following themes will be particularly welcome, under this call:
- modernisation of the labour market, job creation and youth employment, employment in SMEs;
- new forms of work, including platform work;
- quality of work, anticipation, preparation and management of change and restructuring;
- digitalisation of the economy and society (including artifical intelligence);
- transition to a climate-neutral economy;
- skills development including re- and upskilling; skills intelligence;
- intra-EU labour mobility, migration; youth employment, health and safety at work, modernisation of social protection systems;
- reconciliation of work and family life, gender equality, action in the field of anti-discrimination, healthier and longer working lives, active inclusion and decent work,
- tackling the employment, social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and the particular role of workers’ organisations / social partners, in this respect.
The types of activities which may be funded under this call include: conferences, seminars, round tables, studies, surveys, publications, training courses, development of training tools, the setting up of networks and the development and exchange of best practices.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Project budgets (maximum grant amount) are expected to range between €150 000 and €500 000 per project.
Thematic Categories
- Employment
- Youth
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Educational Institutions
- Employees
- Employers
- International Organisations
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
- Trade Unions
- Training Centres
- Youth
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries, affiliated entities and associated partners) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies);
- be established and registered in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States
- non-EU countries (not for coordinator and single applicant): Candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine
Consortium composition:
Applications by both single applicants and consortia are allowed.
The single applicant must be a social partner organisation representing workers at European level.
The coordinator must be a social partner organisation representing workers at European, national or regional level. If the coordinator is not a social partner organisation at European level, the consortium must foresee at least one organisation from a different eligible country to that of the coordinator and a European-level social partner organisation.
Other beneficiaries, affiliated entities and associated partners must fall within one of the following categories: social partners, non-profit-making organisations, universities and research institutes, public authorities, international organisations.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion: https://bit.ly/3dByK6U
For further questions send to the email address below:
EMPL-VP-SOCIAL-DIALOGUE@ec.europa.eu
(Publish Date: 15/03/2023-for internal use only)