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Framework partnership agreements and annual operating grants to support EU level Social NGO Networks
Details
Location:EU 27
Funding agency:
Grantmaking entity: European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Grantmaking entity type:Development Institution
Description
Topic updates
25 September 2025
CALL UPDATE - EVALUATION RESULTS
EVALUATION RESULTS
Call opening: 05.02.2025
Deadline: 08.04.2025
Available budget: the budget will be allocated to the selected framework partners via the specific call ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-SGA.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of proposals submitted: 33
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of ineligible proposals: 3
Number of above-threshold proposals: 21
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: this information will be communicated with the results of the call ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-SGA.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of proposals retained for funding: 17
Number of proposals in the reserve list: 0
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
02 April 2025
The questions and answers covered during the online information session held on 7 March 2025 can be found under this link:
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/circabc-ewpp/ui/group/bab664d7-1188-47b2-9fa6-869902320ba2/library/3e3d50bc-1641-4ed9-b232-dfe52b2947b8/details
28 February 2025
To support the applicants, the European Commission will organise an online information session on 7 March 2025 (14:00 – 15:00 CET). If you wish to attend this session, please fill the registration form available under this link.
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/CallSocialNGOinfosession
Framework partnership agreements and annual operating grants to support EU level Social NGO Networks
TOPIC ID: ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-FPA
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: European Social Fund + (ESF)
Call: Framework partnership agreements and annual operating grants to support EU level Social NGO Networks (ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-FPA)
Type of action: ESF-FPA-OG ESF Operating Grants Framework Partnerships
Type of MGA: ESF Framework Partnership Operating Grant [ESF-FPA-OG]
Status: Forthcoming
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned Opening Date: 05 February 2025
Deadline dates: 08 April 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Expected Outcome:
Promote social inclusion and combating poverty by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations active in this area at local, regional, national and transnational level. It will thereby contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and its implementing documents, ensuring just transitions, protecting livelihoods, boosting employment, reducing poverty and inequalities and creating opportunities for all.
Scope:
The expected results are: (a) improved awareness about EU policies and funding among the network’s members; (b) increased awareness of EU and national authorities about the needs and potential of organisations represented by the networks; (c) increased capacity of the networks and their members to support policy making in their respective areas; and (d) enhanced research and availability of data about the fields in which the networks operate.
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Described in the call document.
Applications must be submitted before the call deadline and electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System. Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Applications (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System.
Applications must be complete and contain:
-Application Form (Part A)
-Application Form (Part B)
-Annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded as PDF files).
At proposal submission, the lead applicant will have to confirm that it has the mandate to act for all applicants; that the information in the application is correct and complete and that the participants comply with the conditions for receiving EU funding (especially eligibility, financial and operational capacity, exclusion, etc.) Before signing the grant, each beneficiary and affiliated entity will have to confirm this again by signing a declaration of honour (DoH).
Applications must be readable, accessible and printable, not exceeding 40 pages.
2. Eligible Countries
Described in the call document.
• EU Member States (and their overseas countries and territories);
• EEA countries, in accordance with the EEA Agreement;
• EU acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidate countries, in line with the agreements concluded with them.
• Third countries having signed an agreement to participate in the strand or a third country listed in the EaSI work programme if necessary for the achievement of the objectives of an action.
Do note that for certain calls only EU Member States and EEA countries are eligible.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
Described in the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
Described in the call document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
The award criteria for this call are as follows (for additional information, see the call document):
|
Award criteria |
Minimum pass score |
Maximum score |
|
Relevance Quality — Project design and implementation Quality — Project team and cooperation arrangements Impact |
25 15 5 10 |
40 30 10 20 |
|
Overall (pass) scores |
70 |
100 |
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
As described in the call document:
Call opening: 5 February 2025
Deadline for submission: 8 April 2025 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels)
Evaluation: April - June 2025
Information on evaluation results: July 2025
FPA signature: July - August 2025
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Described in the call document.
n/a
Call document and annexes:
Call document:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/esf/wp-call/2025/call-fiche_esf-2025-og-netw-ngo-fpa_en.pdf
Application form templates
Standard application form (ESF and SOCPL FPA OG) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Framework Partnership Agreement FPA
Additional documents:
ESF+ Annual Work Programme
ESF+ Regulation 2021/1057
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
Start submission
The submission system is planned to be opened on the date stated on the topic header.
Get support
Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.
For help related to this call, please contact:
- general questions on ESF+: EMPL-EaSI@ec.europa.eu
- call-specific questions: EMPL-CALL-EASI-SOCIAL-INCLUSION@ec.europa.eu.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
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grant Background
About the Funding Agency
EuropeAid is an agency responsible for designing European international cooperation and development policy and delivering aid worldwide. Its purpose is to aid in the reduction and eventual abolition of poverty in developing nations by fostering sustainable development, democracy, peace and security. With its partner nations, EuropeAid walks alongside them on their journey to sustainable development, continually adapting its help to their changing requirements. EuropeAid is also concerned with increasing the value and impact of aid money by ensuring that help is provided appropriately.
Under the donor EC - European Commission, DevelopmentAid covers the following entities:
Departments / Directorate Generals
- AGRI - Agriculture & Rural Development
- BUDG - Budget
- CLIMA - Climate Action
- COMM - Communication
- CNECT – Communications Networks, Content & Technology (formerly Digital Agenda)
- COMP - Competition
- ECFIN - Economic & Financial Affairs
- EAC - Education & Culture
- EMPL - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion
- ENER - Energy
- ENV - Environment
- ESTAT - Eurostat
- FISMA – Financial Stability, Financial Services & Capital Markets Union
- SANTE - Health & Food Safety
- ECHO - Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection
- HR - Human Resources & Security
- DIGIT - Informatics
- GROW - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs
- DEVCO – International Cooperation & Development - EUROPEAID
- SCIC - Interpretation
- JRC - Joint Research Centre
- JUST - Justice & Consumers
- MARE - Maritime Affairs & Fisheries
- HOME - Migration & Home Affairs
- MOVE - Mobility & Transport
- NEAR – Neighbourhood & Enlargement Negotiations
- REGIO - Regional & Urban Policy
- RTD - Research & Innovation
- SG – Secretariat-General - no procurement opportunities available
- FPI – Service for Foreign Policy Instruments
- TAXUD - Taxation & Customs Union
- TRADE - Trade
- DGT - Translation
Agencies
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
- Eurojust
- European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
- European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
- European GNSS Agency (GSA)
- European Union Agency for Network and Information Security
- The European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy ("Fusion for Energy")
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
- Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA), Health and Food Safety Unit
- European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)
- European Fisheries Control Agency
- Single Resolution Board
- Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC Office)
- The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
- European Asylum Support Office
- European Union Intellectual Property Office
- European Union Agency for Railways
- European Environment Agency
- European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA)
- Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
- European Defence Agency
- EU Grant Programmes
EU Bodies
- European Parliament
- Council of the European union
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- European Court of Auditors
- European Economic and Social Committee
- European Committee of the Regions
- Publications office of the European Union
- European Patent Office
- European External Action Service
- Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
- Energy Community Secretariat
About the Sectors
Community Development & NGOs
Focuses on initiatives that support community empowerment, civic engagement, and the work of non-governmental and civil society organizations at local, national, and international levels.
Key areas:
- Community development and social inclusion initiatives
- Civil society and NGO programmes
- Civic engagement and citizen participation
Social Development
Includes measures for improving well-being, inclusion, and resilience of individuals and communities through social services and protection systems.
Key areas:
- Social inclusion and social cohesion programs
- Social protection systems and safety nets
- Social care services
- Community development and vulnerable groups support