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The European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) aims to support member states and regions to improve employment and education opportunities, to enhance social inclusion and to tackle poverty.
This call for proposals is financed under the Employment and Social Innovation("EaSI") strand of the ESF+ which is a European-level financing instrument. It provides financial support to achieve high employment levels, fair social protection, a skilled and resilientworkforce ready for the future world of work, as well as inclusive and cohesivesocieties aiming to eradicate poverty.
This call supports fair mobility for workers in cross-border regions, in particular cross-border partnerships offering comprehensive EURES services.
The overall objectives of the call topic are to facilitate workers' intra-EU labour mobility, to boost employment opportunities as well as to support the implementation of the EURES Regulation. The ultimate goal of the call is to facilitate the job matching, placement and recruitment process on a fair basis.
Applicants must comply with the rules, standards and procedures established in these documents, such as the principle to provide free services to job seekers, to provide job vacancies and CV's in accordance with the uniform system for the EURES Portal and to provide information to the National Coordination Office for the programming and reporting cycle and to report on their activities through the Performance Measurement System for cross-border partnerships.
Cross-border partnerships under this topic must support all these activities:
(1) To provide recruitment assistance through the staff of the organisations participating in the partnership to frontier jobseekers and employers, such as:
o Recruiting workers and attracting employers, for instance organizing recruitment events
o Identifying suitable job vacancies or CVs.
o Helping to draft CV's, job applications, and job vacancies.
o Matching CVs and vacancies.
(2) To provide guidance and information, relevant for the area covered by the partnership, on:
o living and working conditions, including general information on social security, taxation, labour law and administrative procedures regarding employment.
o apprenticeships, traineeships and access to vocational education and training.
(3) To advertise the information and services provided in line with the EURES communications strategy.
(4) To monitor placement outcomes and customer satisfaction.
(5) To contribute to the pool of job vacancies and CVs in the EURES portal, in cooperation with the NCO.
Read more in the call document.
The available call budget is EUR 12 000 000. This budget might be increased by maximum 20%.We expect to fund between 10 and 15 proposals.
In order to be eligible, applicants must:
+ be legal entities (public or private bodies)
+ be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
Social partner organisations without legal personality under the applicable national law of above-mentioned countries are also eligible, provided that the conditions of the Financial Regulation related thereto are met (Article 197(2)(c) of the Financial Regulation).
To be eligible, the lead applicant of the consortium must be:
+ the relevant National EURES Coordination Office(s) as designated in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/589 or
+ the EURES member(s) or partner(s) of the regions involved with the endorsement of its National Coordination Office
To be eligible, other applicants must fall into one of the categories listed below:
+ EURES members or partners
+Social partner organisations at European, national or regional level
+Public or private employment services
+Third sector organisations
+Other relevant actors active on the EU/EEA labour market, including European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation
Only consortia are eligible. Proposals must be submitted by a consortium which includes employment services on regional, local and, where appropriate, national level; social partner organisations; and, where relevant, other stakeholders of at least two neighbouring Member States.
Projects should normally have a duration of 24 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).
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