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Call key data

Information and training measures for workers' organisations

Funding Program

Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines

Call number

SOCPL-2025-INFO-WK

deadlines

Opening
16.01.2025

Deadline
15.04.2025 17:00

Funding rate

90%

Call budget

€ 5,661,382.00

Estimated EU contribution per project

between € 150,000.00 and € 700,000.00

Link to the call

ec.europa.eu

Link to the submission

ec.europa.eu

Call content

short description

This call aims at strengthening the capacity of workers' organisations (both in Member States and candidate countries) to address, at EU/transnational level, challenges related to changes in employment and working conditions as well as challenges related to their effective participation in social dialogue.

Call objectives

Actions that address the following themes will be particularly welcome:

  • actions aimed at preparing negotiations of autonomous social partner agreements to be concluded at EU level and at supporting their implementation at national level;
  • actions related to the implementation of the work programmes of the existing European Social Dialogue Committees;
  • actions related to the involvement of social partners in the European Semester and enhancing their contribution to EU policy making.

Other relevant themes for this call are:

  • measures which contribute to addressing the employment, social and economic challenges as identified in the European Pillar of Social Rights;
  • modernisation of the labour market, job creation and youth employment; 
  • new forms of work, including telework and platform work;
  • strengthening collective bargaining, including on minimum wage;
  • quality of work, including fair working-conditions and health and safety at work, anticipation, preparation and management of change and restructuring;
  • digitalisation of the economy and society (including artificial intelligence and algorithmic management);
  • transition to a climate-neutral economy;
  • labour shortages and skills development including re- and upskilling; skills intelligence;
  • intra-EU labour mobility, attracting talent in line with the needs of our economies and labour market;
  • modernisation of social protection systems, including access to social protection for those in non-standard forms of employment;
  • reconciliation of work and family life, gender equality, action in the field of anti-discrimination, healthier and longer working lives, active inclusion and decent work;
  • tackling the employment, social and economic consequences of crisis situations.

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Expected effects and impacts

Proposals are expected to contribute to strengthening the capacity of workers’ organisations (both in Member States and candidate countries) to address, at EU/transnational level, challenges related to changes in employment and working conditions as well as challenges related to their effective participation in social dialogue.

To offer an EU added value, proposals are expected to have EU/transnational dimension by involving several social partners from different EU member states and should analyse challenges concerning several member states or the whole EU and develop strategies for addressing those.

Proposals should further contribute to the promotion of social dialogue in accordance with Title X of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and to the development of European social dialogue in its different dimensions of information exchange, consultation, negotiation and joint action.

Expected results consist in improved expertise for workers' representatives for participation in European social dialogue and EU policy-making, 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.

In line with point 2.5 of the application template “Project management, quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation strategy”, the application shall include a description of evaluation methods and indicators (quantitative and/or qualitative) to monitor and verify the achievement of the main expected results. These indicators should be realistic, measurable and relevant. Their level of achievement or deviations thereof must be detailed and justified in the final reporting.

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Expected results

The types of activities which may be funded under this call for proposals include: conferences, seminars, round tables, studies, surveys, publications, training courses, development of training tools, the setting up of networks and the development and exchange of best practices.

Activities funded under this call for proposals should respect the gender equality and anti-discrimination principles.

Access for people with disabilities shall be guaranteed.

Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

EU Member States
Moldova (Moldova), Albania (Shqipëria), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина), Georgia (საქართველო), Montenegro (Црна Гора), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија), Türkiye, Ukraine (Україна)

eligible entities

Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Mandatory partnership

No

Project Partnership

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries, affiliated entities and associated partners) must:

  • be legal entities (public or private bodies);
  • be established and registered in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • EU Member States
    • non-EU countries (not for coordinator and single applicant):
      • Candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine

Applications by both single applicants and consortia are allowed.

Single applicants

The single applicant must be a social partner organisation representing workers at European level. Affiliated entities and associate partners may be part of a single applicant proposal.

Consortia applicants

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:

  • the coordinator must be a social partner organisation representing workers at European, national or regional level;
  • when the coordinator is a social partner organisation at national or regional level, the consortium must foresee at least:
    • one organisation from a different eligible country to that of the coordinator and
    • a European-level social partner organisation.
  • At least one of the organisations mentioned in the above paragraph must participate as other beneficiary, while the other(s) can participate as other beneficiary, affiliated entity(ies) of the coordinator or other beneficiary or associated partner(s).
  • Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc.
  • Other beneficiaries, affiliated entities and associated partners must fall within one of the following categories: social partners and Business Representative organisations, non-profit-making organisation; universities and research institutes; public authorities; international organisations.

other eligibility criteria

Financial support to third parties is not allowed.

Specific cases

Natural persons — Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).

International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them. International organisations cannot be the consortium coordinator.

Entities without legal personality (including social partner organisations) — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.

EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.

Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).

Social partner organisations — These include notably the European social partner organisations that are consulted in accordance with Article 154 TFEU (for the list, see List of consulted organisations) as well as other European-level social partner organisations that are not included in this list, but who are involved in the preparation and launch of European social dialogue at sector level. Social partner organisations without legal personality are eligible provided that the conditions for entities without legal personality (see above) are met.

Additional information

Topics

Competitiveness of Enterprises, Employment/Labour Market, SME & entrepreneurship, 
Education & Training, Children & Youth, Media

Relevance for EU Macro-Region

EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region

UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)

project duration

between 12 and 36 months

Additional Information

Proposals must be submitted before the call deadline (see timetable section 4).

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section. Paper submissions are NOT possible.

Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System ( NOT the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information). No modification to the format of these documents is allowed.

Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:

  • Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries, affiliated entities and associated partners) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
  • Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded as PDF in the system)
  • mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded as a separate PDF files):
    • detailed budget table/calculator: not applicable
    • CVs (short outlines) of core project team
    • activity reports of last year: not applicable
    • list of previous projects (key projects relating to the subject of the call in the last 3 years) (template available in Part B)
  • additional Special annexes (assembled within the Application Form Part B):
    • letter of commitment: for consortia where the coordinator is not a social partner organization at European level, the coordinator must provide a written commitment signed by the participating European-level social partner organization and confirming its involvement. The letter template can be downloaded from EU Funding & Tenders Portal and must be assembled within the Application Form Part B.

Your application must be readable, accessible and printable (please check carefully the layout of the documents uploaded).

Proposals are limited to 70 pages (Part B).

Call documents

SOCPL-2025-INFO-WKSOCPL-2025-INFO-WK(338kB)

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