Annual operating grants to support EU-level Social NGO Networks
ESF Operating Grants Framework Partnerships
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-SGA
- Programme
- Annual operating grants to support EU-level Social NGO Networks
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- February 5, 2025
- Deadline
- April 15, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €13,250,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- ESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-SGAESF-2025-OG-NETW-NGO-SGA
Description
It will thereby contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and its Action Plan, ensuring just transitions, protecting livelihoods, boosting employment, reducing poverty and inequalities and creating opportunities for all. They particularly focus on principles aiming at ensuring access to adequate social protection throughout the life cycle and tackling barriers to social inclusion of certain particularly disadvantaged groups such as the inclusion of people with disabilities and housing and assistance for the homeless.
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 | 25 | 40 |
Quality — Project design and implementation | 15 | 30 |
Quality — Project team and cooperation arrangements | 5 | 10 |
Impact | 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: 15 April 2025 – 17:00:00 CET
Evaluation: April - June 2025
Information on evaluation results: July 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 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:
- call-specific questions: [email protected]
- general questions on ESF+: [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: 15.04.2025
Available budget: 13 250 000 EUR. Within this amount, 500 000 EUR will be specifically dedicated to activities related to capacity building of social service providers in the Member States in the area of access to ESF+ funding.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of proposals submitted: 30
Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
Number of ineligible proposals: 13
Number of above-threshold proposals: 17
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 13 167 581,15 EUR
Number of proposals retained for funding: 17
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
On page 13 of the call text, the sentence under 'Duration' should say 'The duration of the work programme to be covered by the 2026 operating grant should coincide with the budgetary (financial) year of the applicant (12 months)' instead of 'The duration of the work programme to be covered by the 2022 operating grant should coincide with the budgetary (financial) year of the applicant (12 months).'