In order to achieve the objective, it is intended with this call for proposals to fund transnational cooperation initiatives aiming at developing activities by relevant stakeholders involved in the context of posting with a significant and lasting impact on workers, companies and administrations. Activities aim at supporting competent authorities in Member States and social partners in administrative cooperation, in increasing access to essential information for posted workers and to promote the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation of original data and analysis.

The following activities may be co-financed:

• Cooperation: developing new or improving existing exchanges, peer reviews and/or training programmes (for example joint visits, joint inspections, short training actions) between officials of competent public authorities and/or between relevant social partners and stakeholders in the contexts of monitoring the compliance with and enforcement of the applicable rules in relation to posted workers, and/or of administrative cooperation and mutual assistance, including the use of the Internal Market Information System (IMI).
• Information: developing and improving different information and/or advisory forms and formats, with a preference towards on-line/IT-based tools. These should allow for the collection and dissemination of quality, user-friendly, and specific information targeted at workers and/or undertakings with respect to the working conditions applicable to posted workers, including preventing in-work poverty of posted workers and discrimination based on origin as well as the procedures and conditions to be respected by undertakings in different Member States, and other relevant information for the posting of workers in the context of the provision of cross-border services.
• Evidence: development of joint research projects on different dimensions of the posting of workers in the context of the transnational provision of services and dissemination of results through targeted publication strategies, both in the scientific domain as well as in the specialised and general press.

These three types of activities are mutually exclusive.

The activities carried out under the above-mentioned strands should have a specific focus on:

• a certain sector (i.e. construction, road transport, healthcare, meat processing etc.), and/or
• the type of a posted worker (i.e. seasonal worker, temporary agency worker, posted third country national etc.), and/or
• the situation of the posted worker (i.e. working in the situation of subcontracting, health and safety of the worker, remuneration conditions etc.).

Applications should focus on one of the above-mentioned three strands in their proposal.

For the different types of activities as outlined above, the following minimum requirements in terms of composition of the consortia and representation of different types of organisations shall apply:

• Participation of both social partners (worker and employers’ organisations) and competent public authorities with focus on enforcement authorities regarding the specific objective of promoting “cooperation”;
• Participation of both social partners (worker and employers’ organisations) and competent public authorities, or research institutes and social partners and/or other stakeholders and/or public authorities regarding the specific objective of increasing the accessibility, transparency and quality of the information concerning the terms and conditions of employment;
• Participation of research institutes in the consortium regarding the specific objective of promoting the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation of original data, and the analysis specific to the posting process and posted workers’ working conditions.