Serces to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the macro-region 1 in Romania
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- Horizon 2020
- Status:
- awarded
- Location:
- Romania
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EURES Cross-border partnerships and EURES cross-border initiatives
Details
Location:
EU 27
Grantmaking entity type:
Development Institution
Status:
Awarded
Budget:
EUR 9,000,000
Award ceiling:
N/A
Award floor:
N/A
Sector:
HR & Employment, Border Management
Languages:
English
Eligible applicants:
Government / Public Bodies, Private Sector
Eligible applicant countries:
EU 27, Iceland, Norway
Date posted:
Feb 13, 2025
Description
EURES Cross-border partnerships and EURES cross-border initiatives
TOPIC ID: ESF-2025-EURES-CBC
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: European Social Fund + (ESF)
Call: EURES Cross-border partnerships and EURES cross-border initiatives (ESF-2025-EURES-CBC)
Type of action: ESF-PJG ESF Project Grants
Type of MGA: ESF Action Grant Budget-Based [ESF-AG]
Status: Forthcoming
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned Opening Date: 20 February 2025
Deadline dates: 06 May 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Expected Outcome:The overall objectives of this call topic are to facilitate cross-border labour mobility in border regions, including those with a common sea border, which do not yet benefit from cooperation structures of regional labour market players and to foster the development of a better integrated and more dynamic regional labour market across borders. Furthermore, this shall speed up the implementation of the EURES Regulation in cross-border regions and lead in the medium-term to the setting up of new EURES cross-border partnerships.
The ultimate goal of the call is to provide focused and essential support to cross-border workers and employers and to facilitate, wherever possible, the job matching, placement and recruitment process on a fair basis
Objective:The overall objectives of the call are to promote workers' intra-EU labour mobility, to boost employment opportunities as well as to support the implementation of the EURES Regulation.
This action will contribute to the implementation of EPSR principles 04. Active support to employment and "03. Equal opportunities and access to the labour market.
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Full details 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
See 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
See in the call document for full explication per topics.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
See details in the call Document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
See details in the call Document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
See details in the call documents.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
As described in the call document:
Call opening: 20 February 2025
Deadline for submission: 06 May 2025 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels)
Evaluation: May-July 2025
Information on evaluation results: 15 September 2025
GA signature: October 2025/January 2026
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
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-eures-cbc_en.pdf
Application form templates
Standard application form (ESF and SOCPL) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
ESF and SOCPL MGA
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 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.
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-general questions on ESF+: [email protected]
-call-specific questions: [email protected]
Online Manual : Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes. (roles & access rights, proposal submission and evaluation, grant management, amendments, etc.). Each explanation leads to the corresponding “IT How to” page (see here after).
IT How to - IT How To - Funding Tenders Opportunities (europa.eu) : Detailed instructions on how to apply for EU funding, from how to register your organisation,how to manage the roles and access rights to your organisations, proposals andto how to submit your proposal. It gives also detailedinstructions on and on how to manage your grant if you are selected.
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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
HR & Employment
Covers human resources management, labor market initiatives, and activities related to employment and workforce development.
Key areas:
- Human resources and workforce management
- Employment and labor market services
- Human capital and skills development
Border Management
Focuses on strengthening secure and efficient border control systems, promoting integrated approaches to regulate cross-border movements of people and goods, and combating transnational threats such as smuggling, trafficking, and terrorism in developing nations and border regions.
Key areas:
- Enhancing border control and surveillance capabilities
- Strengthening inter-agency and international cooperation
- Developing infrastructure and capacities to counter cross-border crime
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