Framework partnership agreements and annual operating grants to support EU level Social NGO Networks
ESF Operating Grants Framework Partnerships
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-FPA
- Programme
- Framework partnership agreements and annual operating grants to support EU level Social NGO Networks
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- February 5, 2025
- Deadline
- April 8, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-FPAESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-FPA
Description
Promote social inclusion and combating poverty by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations active in this area at local, regional, national and transnational level. It will thereby contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and its implementing documents, ensuring just transitions, protecting livelihoods, boosting employment, reducing poverty and inequalities and creating opportunities for all.
Scope:The expected results are: (a) improved awareness about EU policies and funding among the network’s members; (b) increased awareness of EU and national authorities about the needs and potential of organisations represented by the networks; (c) increased capacity of the networks and their members to support policy making in their respective areas; and (d) enhanced research and availability of data about the fields in which the networks operate.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
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 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 40 pages.
2. Eligible Countries
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.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
Described in the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
Described in the call document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
The award criteria for this call are as follows (for additional information, see the call document):
Award criteria | Minimum pass score | Maximum score |
Relevance Quality — Project design and implementation Quality — Project team and cooperation arrangements Impact | 25 15 5 10 | 40 30 10 20 |
Overall (pass) scores | 70 | 100 |
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
As described in the call document:
Call opening: 5 February 2025
Deadline for submission: 8 April 2025 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels)
Evaluation: April - June 2025
Information on evaluation results: July 2025
FPA signature: July - August 2025
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Described in the call document.
n/a
Call document and annexes:
Call document:
Application form templates
Standard application form (ESF and SOCPL FPA OG) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Support & Resources
For help related to this call, please contact:
- general questions on ESF+: [email protected]
- call-specific questions: [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 – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
CALL UPDATE - EVALUATION RESULTS
EVALUATION RESULTS
Call opening: 05.02.2025
Deadline: 08.04.2025
Available budget: the budget will be allocated to the selected framework partners via the specific call ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-SGA.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of proposals submitted: 33
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of ineligible proposals: 3
Number of above-threshold proposals: 21
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: this information will be communicated with the results of the call ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-SGA.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of proposals retained for funding: 17
Number of proposals in the reserve list: 0
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
The questions and answers covered during the online information session held on 7 March 2025 can be found under this link.
To support the applicants, the European Commission will organise an online information session on 7 March 2025 (14:00 – 15:00 CET). If you wish to attend this session, please fill the registration form available under this link.