EURES Cross-border partnerships and EURES cross-border initiatives
ESF Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ESF-2025-EURES-CBC
- Programme
- EURES Cross-border partnerships and EURES cross-border initiatives
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- February 20, 2025
- Deadline
- May 6, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €9,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- ESF-2025-EURES-CBCESF-2025-EURES-CBC
Description
Topic 1: ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-ECP — EURES Cross-border partnerships
This topic tackles fair mobility for workers in cross-border regions, in particular through EURES cross-border partnerships offering comprehensive EURES services including matching, placing and recruitment services, well as to support the implementation of the EURES Regulation.
Topic 2 : ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-CBI — EURES Cross-border initiatives
This topic is designed to facilitate cross-border labour mobility in border regions, including those with a common sea border, which do not yet benefit from cooperation structures of regional labour market players, and to foster the development of a better integrated and more dynamic regional labour market across borders
Objective:The ultimate goal for both topics of this call is to provide focused and essential, respectively enhanced, support to cross-border workers and employers and to facilitate, wherever possible, the job matching, placement and recruitment process on a fair basis.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Full details 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 beneficiary and affiliated entity will have to confirm this again by signing a declaration of honour (DoH).
Applications must be readable, accessible and printable, not exceeding 70 pages.
2. Eligible Countries
See 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.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
See in the call document for full explication per topics.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
See details in the call Document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
See details in the call Document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
See details in the call documents.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
As described in the call document:
Call opening: 20 February 2025
Deadline for submission: 06 May 2025 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels)
Evaluation: May-July 2025
Information on evaluation results: 15 September 2025
GA signature: October 2025/January 2026
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Call document and annexes:
Call document: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/esf/wp-call/2025/call-fiche_esf-2025-eures-cbc_en.pdf
Application form templates
Standard application form (ESF and SOCPL) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
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Latest Updates
Call ESF-2025-EURES-CBC has closed on 06/05/2025.
6 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
- ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-ECP - EURES Cross-border partnerships: 6 proposals
- ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-CBI - EURES Cross-border initiatives : 0 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in September 2025.