Specific Grant Agreement under FPA ESF-OG-2021 Social Enterprise
ESF Operating Grants Framework Partnerships
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ESF-2021-OG-NETW-MF-SE-SGA
- Programme
- Specific Grant Agreement under FPA ESF-OG-2021 Social Enterprise
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- June 23, 2021
- Deadline
- September 30, 2021
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €1,600,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- ESF-2021-OG-NETW-MF-SE-SGAESF-2021-OG-NETW-MF-SE-SGA
Description
“Social enterprises and microenterprises are instrumental in the implementation of many of the principles expressed in the European Pillar for Social Rights. In particular they play a key role in delivering the following principles of the Pillar: equal opportunities (principle #3), active support to employment (principle #4), secure and adaptable employment (principle #5), inclusion of people with disabilities (principle #17), long-term care (principle #18) and access to essential services (principle #20). To support the development in this field, the Commission cooperates with EU level networks in its outreach activities at EU, national and local level. EU level networks are also key partners in the consultation and implementation of the upcoming Action Plan for Social Economy, as well as on a number of other policy files such as long-term care, green transition and social innovation.
This partnership will enhance the capacities of these networks to contribute actively to the development and implementation of the EU policies in this area.
The Commission expects:
- to benefit from the networks’ expertise as regards the challenges (and ways to tackle them) that social enterprises, microenterprises and their support organisations/intermediaries face in the various Member States;
- and to be supported in its outreach activities at EU, national and local level with the aim of ensuring awareness, contribution to and implementation of EU level policies and initiatives in the areas of social enterprise and microenterprise finance support."
Scope:“The call aims to provide specific operating grants for 2022 to the organisations that will sign a 4-year Framework Partnership Agreement, i.e. networks active in the areas of microfinance and social enterprise finance. The activities to be funded contain, among others, outreach activities, mutual learning among members, research activities and input for policy design.”
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Eligible countries: as described in the Call document.
• EU Member States (and their overseas countries and territories) ;
• EEA countries, in accordance with the EEA Agreement;
• EU acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidate countries, in line with the agreements concluded with them.
• Third countries having signed an agreement to participate in the strand or a third country listed in the EaSI work programme if necessary for the achievement of the objectives of an action.
Do note that for certain calls only EU Member States and EEA countries are eligible
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: as described in the Call document.
Proposals must be submitted before the call deadline.
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System. 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).
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 applicant organisation 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)
- mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded as PDF files/included in Part B):
- detailed budget table: not applicable
- CVs (standard) 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).
At proposal submission, you will have to confirm that you have the mandate to act for all applicants. Moreover you will have to confirm that the information in the application is correct and complete and that the participants comply with the conditions for receiving EU funding (especially eligibility, financial and operational capacity, exclusion, etc). Before signing the grant, each beneficiary will have to confirm this again by signing a declaration of honour (DoH). Proposals without full support will be rejected.
Your application must be readable, accessible and printable.
Proposals are limited to maximum 40 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.printable, not exceeding [70] pages.
3. Evaluation
as described in the Call document
4. Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement: as described in the Call document.
5. Proposal templates, guidance and model grant agreements (MGA):
Standard proposal template https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/temp-form/af/af_esf-socpl-og_en.pdf
Call document https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/esf/wp-call/2021/call-fiche_esf-2021-og-netw-mf-se-sga_en.pdf
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/agr-contr/og-mga_en.pdf
Support & Resources
For help related to this call, please contact: [email protected]
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Please be aware that the Manual is currently drafted for the H2020 Programme and may not entirely fit for other programmes. However, a revision is being completed to make it corporate.
Latest Updates
The submission session is now available for: ESF-2021-OG-NETW-MF-SE-SGA(ESF-FPA-OG)
The application form template that was available from the “submission phase” at the publication of the call was erroneous (it was the same as the parallel FPA call). This has been changed.
The “Part B template” (see “Start submission”; “Download part B templates”) is now the correct version. Please use this one only.