Support for Social Dialogue

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines Programme (SOCPL)

Programme Description

Prerogatives are tasks resulting from specific powers directly conferred by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to the European Commission.

The prerogatives budget lines managed by the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion deal with social dialogue, labour mobility as well as analysis of the social situation, demographics and the family.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

SOCPL-2024-SOC-DIALOG

Call

Support for Social Dialogue

Summary

This call aims at contributing to the promotion of social dialogue at cross-industry and sectoral level, developing European social dialogue, and building and strengthening the capacity of national social partners.

Detailed Call Description

The call will be used to finance consultations, meetings, negotiations and other actions, as outlined in the European Commission’s Communication on The European social dialogue, a force for innovation and change (COM(2002)341), the Communication on Partnership for change in an enlarged Europe – Enhancing the contribution of European social dialogue (COM(2004)557) and the Commission Staff Working Document on the Functioning and potential of European sectoral social dialogue (SEC(2010)964) and the Communication on Strenghtening social dialogue in the European Union: harnessing its full potential for managing fair transitions (COM(2023)40).

Projects proposed jointly by employers’ and workers’ organisations, which aim at implementing (parts of) the work programme of European social dialogue committees, as well as measures to foster the implementation of EU level social partner agreements at EU or national level, or the implementation of other social dialogue outcomes, reinforce their impact and visibility, and support their follow-up and reporting are a high priority.

Strengthening synergies and exchanges between European sectoral social dialogue committees and/or between the sectoral committees and the cross-industry level, including through projects developing a multi-sectoral approach on themes of common interest, is also considered a priority.

Call Total Budget

€13.250.000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

90%

Project budgets are expected to range between €150.000 and €700.000 per project.

The Commission expects to fund between 25 and 40 proposals.

The applicants may apply for a higher project funding rate, 95%, if the project is a “priority action” i.e. concerns:

  • social dialogue actions involving negotiations in accordance with Articles 154 and 155 TFEU;
  • meetings to prepare for negotiations of agreements in accordance with Articles 154 and 155 TFEU or joint social partner actions relating to the implementation of the agreements resulting from these negotiations; or
  • actions to maintain, develop and improve the capacity of national social partners, together with EU cross-industry social partners, specifically following the Covid crisis, as well as measures related to technical assistance provided by EU cross-industry social partners for the coordination and support of these Covid related activities of national social partners.

Thematic Categories

  • Social Affairs & Human Rights

Eligibility for Participation

  • Businesses
  • Educational Institutions
  • International Organisations
  • Legal Entities
  • 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, 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.

Consortium composition:
Applications by both single applicants and consortia are allowed.

Single applicants must be European social partner organisations or an international organisation. However, a national or regional social partner can submit a project as single applicant, provided that the European level is guaranteed by the involvement of a European social partner as affiliated or associated partner.

If a proposal is submitted by a consortium, the coordinator must be a social partner organisation at European, national or regional level or an international organisation. If the coordinator is not a social partner organisation at European level, the consortium must include at least one organisation from a different eligible country to that of the coordinator and a European-level social partner organisation.

Other beneficiaries, affiliated entities and associated partners must fall within one of the following categories:

  • social partners
  • Business Representative organisations
  • non-for-profit organisation
  • universities
  • research institutes
  • public authorities
  • international organisations

Call Opening Date

10/04/2024

Call Closing Date

10/07/2024

EU Contact Point

For help related to this call please contact: EMPL-VP-SOCIAL-DIALOGUE@ec.europa.eu