Social innovation practices to combat homelessness
ESF Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ESF-2023-HOMELESS
- Programme
- Social innovation practices to combat homelessness
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- September 14, 2023
- Deadline
- January 11, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €15,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- ESF-2023-HOMELESSESF-2023-HOMELESS
Description
- Create new forms of service delivery are implemented and tested for a more supportive environment for homeless people;
- Improved capacity and knowledge for preventing and combatting homelessness;
- Increased support to the full implementation of the Social Pillar Principle 19 and the Lisbon Declaration on the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness;
- Strengthened cooperation between stakeholders working in the homelessness sector.
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.
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. 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
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.
Applications must be submitted before the call deadline and electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System. Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Applications (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System.
Applications must be complete and contain:
- Application Form (Part A)
- Application Form (Part B)
- Annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded as PDF files).
At proposal submission, the lead applicant will have to confirm that it has the mandate to act for all applicants; 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 beneficiaries and affiliated entities will have to confirm this again by signing a declaration of honour (DoH).
Applications must be readable, accessible and printable, not exceeding 40 pages.
3. Evaluation
The award criteria for this call are detailed in the pages 20 and 21 of 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):
Call document:
Standard proposal template:
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement:
Annex 1 to Grant Agreement: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/temp-form/gap/doa_esf-socpl_en.docx
Annotated Grant Agreement: Aga_en.pdf (europa.eu) : Please be aware that the Manual is being slightly developed following the new Programmes using the Portal.
Support & Resources
- Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ : FAQ on 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 : The Online Manual is Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes. (roles & access rights, proposal submission and evaluation, grant management, amendments, etc.). Each explanation leads to the corresponding “IT How to” page (see here after).
- IT How to - IT How To - Funding Tenders Opportunities (europa.eu) : Detailed instructions on how to apply for EU funding, from how to register your organisation, how to manage the roles and access rights to your organisations, proposals and to how to submit your proposal. It gives also detailed instructions on and on how to manage your grant if you are selected.
- Support overview (europa.eu) : Page gathering all support tools (overview, guidance and manuals, FAQ's, helpdesk, support videos)
- ESF+ direct (EaSI) | European Social Fund Plus (europa.eu) ; Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion - European Commission (europa.eu) : General information on European Social Fund Programme.
For help related to this call, if you did not find an answer in the various support means, please contact: [email protected]
Latest Updates
The deadline for submission of this call has been extended to 11 January 2024. The call text will be updated and published accordingly.
On 26 July 2023 the Commission adopted an amendment to Decision C(2021)35 authorising the use of unit costs for the reimbursement of travel, accommodation and subsistence costs. The purpose of this amendment is to increase the rates for return air and rail travel above 400km by 25% .
The amended unit costs are applicable to this call.
Please refer to the new unit costs while calculating your proposal’s budget.
additional-information-on-unit-costs-and-contributions_en.pdf (europa.eu)