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 (both in Member States and candidate countries) to address, at EU/transnational level, challenges related to changes in employment and working conditions as well as challenges related to their effective participation in social dialogue.
Actions that address the following themes will be particularly welcome:
- actions aimed at preparing negotiations of autonomous social partner agreements to be concluded at EU level and at supporting their implementation at national level;
- actions related to the implementation of the work programmes of the existing European Social Dialogue Committees.
Detailed Call Description
Relevant themes for this call are:
- employment, social and economic challenges as identified in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, the Quality Jobs Roadmap and other key Commission documents;
- involvement of social partners in the European Semester and their contribution to EU policy design and implementation;
- modernisation of the labour market, job creation and job matching, youth employment; job transitions; employment in SMEs;
- new forms of work, including telework and platform work;
- strengthening collective bargaining, including on adequate minimum wages;
- quality jobs, including fair working conditions and health and safety at work, anticipation, preparation and management of change and restructuring;
- digitalisation of the economy and society (including artificial intelligence and algorithmic management);
- just transition to a climate-neutral economy;
- labour shortages and skills development including re- and upskilling; skills intelligence and skills recognition across the EU;
- intra-EU labour mobility and the portability of social security rights, attracting talent in line with the needs of our economies and labour market;
- modernisation of social protection systems, including access to social protection for those in non-standard forms of employment;
- reconciliation of work and family life, gender equality, action in the field of antidiscrimination, healthier and longer working lives, active inclusion and decent work;
- tackling the employment, social and economic consequences of crisis situations.
The types of activities which may be funded under this call for proposals 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.
Activities funded under this call for proposals should respect the gender equality and anti-discrimination principles.
Access for people with disabilities shall be guaranteed.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Employment
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Legal Entities under Public Law
- Local Authorities
- Non Profit Organisations
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
- Trade Unions
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, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine
Natural persons — Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them. International organisations cannot be the consortium coordinator.
Entities without legal personality (including social partner organisations) — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).