Posting of workers in Eastern Europe (EEPOW)

Call reference number: VP/2017/003

Programme title: Posting of workers: enhancing administrative cooperation and access to information

Application reference: VP/2017/003/0027

Action title: Posting of workers in Eastern Europe (EEPOW)

Summary of the action:

The Posting of Workers in Eastern Europe (EEPOW) project is set up to proactively address the issue of posting of workers at its pre-accession stage and to enhance mutual learning on the prevention of social dumping to minimise associated risks for workers between EU and EU candidate countries. The project involves stakeholders from eight well-selected countries, out of which four are EU Member States (AT, DE, SI, and IT) and four are candidate countries (RS, FYROM, ME and AL). The participating organisations include public administration entities (e.g. Ministries, Public Employment Service),
research institutes, and civil society organisations.
The project aims to improve transnational multi-stakeholder cooperation, increase access to information, strengthen the evidence base through empirical research, and build institutional capacities. The project achieves its objectives by conducting case studies research and assessing the institutional capacities of candidate countries to implement the Directive on the Posting of Workers, enhancing cooperation and mutual learning among participating countries’ stakeholders through country workshops and peer reviews, as well as information sharing through events and publications. The results include one kick-off meeting, four case studies, one needs assessment, four country workshops, four peer reviews, two national conferences and one international conference, four policy briefs, one comparative working paper, and one informative booklet.
The costs and outcomes (direct results and impacts) of the different courses of action within EEPOW are planned in a way that cost-efficiency of the project can be ensured. Since the project targets at policy levers and specific target groups due to their potential multiplier effect, direct costs occurred within the project even have impacts on a wider scope (i.e. going beyond the policy areas directly concerned by the Directive, such as general EU integration policies).