Objectives: Total budget of the call: EUR 13.500.000
Objectives of this call include measures and initiatives related to the adaptation of social dialogue to changes in employment and work and related challenges, such as addressing modernization of the labour market, quality of work, anticipation, preparation and management of change and restructuring, flexicurity, skills, mobility and migration, youth employment, contributions to the health and safety strategy, reconciliation of work and family life, gender equality, action in the field of anti-discrimination, active ageing, active inclusion and decent work.
On the basis of these objectives, two sub-programmes have been defined:
- I Support for European social dialogue
- II Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations
Budget:
The foreseen budgetary allocation to this call is EUR 13 500 000.
Project size/amount
For illustrative purposes, the average size of a grant awarded in 2011 was in the range of EUR 155 000.
Eligible applicants
To be eligible, applicants must:
• Be properly constituted and registered legal persons. In application of Article 114 of the Financial Regulation, social partner
organisations without legal personality are also eligible provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal
obligations on their behalf and assume financial liability;
• Fall within one of the following categories:
1. Social partners
(i) European social partner organisations currently consulted in accordance with Article 154 TFEU5
(ii) European-level social partner organisations not covered in (i) above, for example those involved in the preparation and launch of
European social dialogue at sectoral level
(iii) National or regional social partner organisations, as long as the project is part of a European approach
2. Organisations linked to industrial relations
- Non-profit-making organisations/research centres/institutes, universities
- Non-profit-making networks6 of companies or of workers' organisations
3. Public authorities
- Public authorities, including related government services or agencies
4. International organisations
- International organisations (such as UN Agencies) active in the fields of social dialogue and / or industrial relations
• Have their registered office in one of the EU Member States.
Eligibility of actions
To be eligible, actions must:
• Be linked to at least one objective of the call for proposals;
• Include partners from several Member States and/or Candidate Countries in the case of projects which are not submitted by a
European-level or international organisation.This must be demonstrated in the application by signed letters indicating the active
involvement;
• If the application is submitted under sub-programme I, have the support of a European social partner organisation
This must be demonstrated in the application by a signed letter of support from the European social partner organisation;
• Not request a European Union grant of over 80% of the total eligible cost of the action (or 95% in the case of the derogations identified in
section 3.2);
• Be fully carried out in the Member States of the European Union or the Candidate Countries;
• Comply with the call for proposals subcontracting rules indicated in Annex I;
• Comply with the rule on the start date of actions in section 3.1.
Deadline: 4 September 2012
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