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Information and training measures for workers' organisations
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Location:EU 27
Funding agency:
Grantmaking entity: European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Grantmaking entity type:Development Institution
Description
Information and training measures for workers' organisations
TOPIC ID: SOCPL-2025-INFO-WK
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines (SOCPL)
Call: Information and training measures for workers' organisations (SOCPL-2025-INFO-WK)
Type of action: SOCPL-PJG SOCPL Project Grants
Type of MGA: SOCPL Action Grant Budget-Based [SOCPL-AG]
Status: Forthcoming
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned Opening Date: 16 January 2025
Deadline dates: 15 April 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Expected Outcome:Both in Member States and candidate countries: - Stronger contribution by workers' organisations to the overarching challenges facing European employment and social policy within the context of European Union initiatives to address the consequences of the economic crisis, as well as in the context of increasing involvement of social partners in the European Semester process, and in the context of the European Pillar of Social Rights; - Improved skills for workers' representatives for participation in European social dialogue, better understanding of issues discussed in European social dialogue, sharing of ideas/experience on European social dialogue as well as improving the capacity of workers' organisations.
Objective:Actions are expected to contribute to the priorities and activities of European social dialogue, including those laid down in the work programmes of the EU cross-industry and sectoral social dialogue committees. In that context, particular emphasis is put on strengthening collective bargaining and the involvement of social partners in the European Semester and enhancing their contribution to EU policy making.
The call relates to Principle 8 of the European Pillar of Social Rights “Social dialogue and involvement of workers”, particularly its paragraph (b) “Workers or their representatives have the right to be informed and consulted in good time on matters relevant to them, in particular on the transfer, restructuring and merger of undertakings and on collective redundancies”.
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 [70] pages.
2. Eligible Countries
Described in the call document.
EU Member States and in some cases from the European Economic Area (EEA) countries, in accordance with the EEA Agreement.
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 described in the call document - page 16.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
Timetable and deadlines (indicative):
Call opening: 16 January 2025
Deadline for submission: 15 April 2025 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels)
Evaluation: April – August 2025
Information on evaluation results: October 2025
GA signature: December 2025
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Described in the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Call document: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/socpl/wp-call/2025/call-fiche_socpl-2025-info-wk_en.pdf
Application form templates
Standard application form (ESF and SOCPL) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
ESF and SOCPL MGA
Additional documents:
SOCPL Work Programmes
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
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