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Support for social dialogue
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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
Quick summary
Objectives: This call aims to enhance social dialogue at cross-industry and sectoral levels, foster European social dialogue, and build the ca...
Eligibility criteria: Eligible participants must be legal entities established in EU Member States or certain non-EU countries such as Candidate Countries (e.g., Albania, Bosnia and Herze...
Description
Support for social dialogue
TOPIC ID: SOCPL-2025-SOC-DIALOG
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines (SOCPL)
Call: Support for social dialogue (SOCPL-2025-SOC-DIALOG)
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: 10 April 2025
Deadline dates: 10 July 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Expected Outcome:This call relates to Principle 8 of the European Pillar of Social Rights “Social dialogue and involvement of workers”, particularly its paragraph (c): “Support for increased capacity of social partners to promote social dialogue shall be encouraged.”
It aims at contributing to the promotion of social dialogue at cross-industry and sectoral level, developing European social dialogue, and building and strengthening the capacity of social partner organisations (both in Member States and candidate countries).
Scope:Key expected results include:
(a) increased awareness of European social dialogue;
(b) development of European social dialogue at the sectoral and cross-industry levels;
(c) improved capacity of social partners, including in candidate countries.
These should result in a strengthened EU level social dialogue.
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
As 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
As 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
As described in the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
As described in the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
As 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 17.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
Call opening: 10 April 2025
Deadline for submission: 10 July 2025 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels)
Evaluation: July – December 2025
Information on evaluation results: January 2026
GA signature: March 2026
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
As 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-soc-dialog_en.pdf
Annex to the call document: Letter of commitment https://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=27244&langId=en
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
Start submission
The submission system is planned to be opened on the date stated on the topic header.
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Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.
For individual questions on the Portal Submission System, please contact the IT Helpdesk (see link below).
Non-IT related questions should be sent to the following email address:
− general questions on SOCPL: EMPL-VP-SOCIAL-DIALOGUE@ec.europa.eu
− call-specific questions:
Details of support sources:
Online Manual – This 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 - 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 and to how to submit your proposal. It gives also detailedinstructions on and on how to manage your grant if you are selected.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals - FAQ on 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.
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