Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) is the European Union (EU)’s main instrument for investing in people.
Τhe ESF+ will continue to provide an important contribution to the EU’s employment, social, education and skills policies, including structural reforms in these areas.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The objective is to support capacity building of innovative multi-stakeholder governance structures and/or social experimentation at local, regional and national level of innovative forms of service delivery in the areas of homelessness and housing exclusion, including new forms of collaboration with public authorities.
Detailed Call Description
This call will contribute to the prevention and reduction of homelessness across the EU, in line with the Principle 19 of the European Pillar of Social Rights, and the Lisbon Declaration on the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness, through financial support to innovative projects and/or policy measures addressing homelessness and housing exclusion, such as prevention, access to housing, including housing-led approaches and enabling services, as well as building the capacity of local players engaged in the prevention and fight against homelessness. The objective of this call is to:
- Implement and evaluate innovative projects and/or policy measures through social experimentation, piloting and evaluating social innovation practices in the field of homelessness and housing exclusion.
- Build the capacity and knowledge of a large number of local, regional and national stakeholders active in the area of homelesness and housing exclusion.
This call aims at piloting and evaluating innovative projects and/or policy measures addressing homelessness and housing exclusion. By testing integrated approaches to homelessness, covering areas such as prevention, access to housing, including housing-led approaches, and enabling services, it shall contribute to prevent and combat homelessness in line with the Pillar principle 19 and the Lisbon Declaration on the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness.
It should complement other work strands (e.g. data collection and mutual learning with Member States) of the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness.
The purpose is to select and support a limited number of intermediaries in the greatest number of Member States, capable of:
- building the capacity and knowledge of a large number of local, regional and national stakeholders including through the creation of formal and informal networks in the fields covered by the call;
- promote social experimentation and the evaluation of innovative practices in the field of homelessness and housing exclusion.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Project budgets (maximum grant amount) should range between €2 000 000 and €5 000 000 per project.
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the ESF+ or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
- be non-profit organisations (private or public), public authorities (national, regional, local), international organisations, universities, educational institutions, research centres or companies.
If sole applicant: an umbrella civil society organisation, a network of local and regional authorities and/ or social services providers at European level (covering at least 14 eligible countries), an International Organisation or an International Financial Institution, including Multilateral Development Banks. It must be active in the area of the call (part of statutory aim).
If consortium: the lead applicant must be either one of the above or a civil society organisation, local or regional authority, social service provider, or national development bank at national level.
Co-applicants can include research centres/institutes and higher education establishments (private and public). In the case of a lead applicant at national level, at least two co-applicants should be from two other eligible countries. The majority of the applicants must be active in the area of the call (part of statutory aim).
Proposals by both single applicants and consortia are allowed.
Proposals submitted by a consortium should be composed of at least 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:
The lead applicant must be either:
- an umbrella civil society organisation, a network of local and regional authorities and/ or social services providers at European level (covering at least 14 eligible countries), an International Organisation or an International Financial Institution, including Multilateral Development Banks,
or - a civil society organisation, local or regional authority, social service provider, or national development bank, at national level.
In the case of a lead applicant at national level, at least 2 co-applicants should be from two other eligible countries. In this case, the consortium should be comprised of at least 3 organisations.
Co-applicants can include research centres/institutes and higher education establishments (private and public). The majority of the applicants must be active in the area of the call (part of statutory aim).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Directorate-General for European Programs, Coordination and Development
29 Vyronos Avenue, Nicosia
Tel: +357 22-602883
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, if you did not find an answer in the various support means, please contact: EMPL-ESF-2023-HOMELESS@ec.europa.eu