Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) is the European Union (EU)’s main instrument for investing in people.
Τhe ESF+ will continue to provide an important contribution to the EU’s employment, social, education and skills policies, including structural reforms in these areas.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
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, to promote the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation of original data and analysis.
Detailed Call Description
The specific objectives of are the following:
- To support and promote cross-border and transnational cooperation and increase mutual trust among public authorities in charge of the implementation of administrative cooperation and mutual assistance as well as monitoring the compliance with and enforcement of the applicable rules and stakeholders, including the promotion of the use of the Internal Market Information System and sharing experiences and evidence-based good practices in this respect;
- To increase the accessibility, transparency and quality of the information concerning the terms and conditions of employment to be respected and the existing practices in the MS to monitor and enforce the provisions of the Posting of Workers Directive;
- To promote the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation of original data, and the analysis specific to the posting process and posted workers’ working conditions, including through the collaboration between universities across various disciplines, research centres and institutes and stakeholders, in particular social partners.
Activities aim at supporting competent authorities in MS and social partners in administrative cooperation, in increasing access to essential information for posted workers, to promote the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation of original data and analysis.
The following activities may be co-financed: Cooperation / Information / Evidence
The activities carried out under the above-mentionned 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.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
80%
Project budgets (maximum grant amount) are expected to be higher than €350 000 per project.
The number of proposals to be funded are expected to be between 2 and 9 for topic 1.
Thematic Categories
- Employment
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
- Trade Unions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Lead applicants, co-applicants and affiliated entities must fall in one of the following categories:
- Public authorities;
- International organisations;
- Non-profit organisations (private or public);
- Research centres/institutes;
- Higher Education Institutions (HEIs);
- Civil Society Organisations (CSOs);
- Social partner organisations at European, national or regional level.
Proposals may be submitted by single applicants or by a consortium of composed of at least 2 eligible.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Directorate-General for European Programs, Coordination and Development
29 Vyronos Avenue, Nicosia
Tel: +357 22-602883
(Publish Date: 14/03/2023-for internal use only)