Information, consultation & participation of representatives of undertakings
SOCPL Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- SOCPL-2025-INFO-REPR
- Programme
- Information, consultation & participation of representatives of undertakings
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- January 9, 2025
- Deadline
- March 19, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €2,500,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- SOCPL-2025-INFO-REPRSOCPL-2025-INFO-REPR
Description
Expected results are: a) improved capacity of social partners and the social actors at company level to familiarize themselves with EU law and policies in the area of employee involvement, to exercise their rights and their duties to this regard and to work together towards the definition and implementation of concrete responses to the challenges posed to workers’ involvement; b) easier negotiation and creation of EWCs; better functioning of EWCs; c) strengthened transnational co-operation between workers' and employers' representatives in respect of employee involvement.
Scope:The main objective is to develop employees’ involvement in undertakings by raising awareness and contributing to the application of European Union law and policies in this area and, in particular, the take-up and effective functioning of European Works Councils. The call also aims at supporting projects which seek to identify and address challenges in workers’ involvement in undertakings resulting from changes driven by the so-called twin transition (green and digital).
This call relates to Principle 8 of the European Pillar of Social Rights “Social dialogue and involvement of workers”, particularly its para (b) “Workers or their representatives have the right to be informed and consulted in good time on matters relevant to them, in particular on the transfer, restructuring and merger of undertakings and on collective redundancies”.
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 [70] pages.
2. Eligible Countries
described in the call document.
EU Member States and in some cases from the European Economic Area (EEA) countries, in accordance with the EEA Agreement.
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 described in the call text - page 17.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
as described in the Call document.
Timetable and deadlines (indicative):
Call opening: 09 January 2025
Deadline for submission: 19 March 2025 - 17:00:00 CET (Brussels)
Evaluation: April -June 2025
Information on evaluation results: July 2025
GA signature: August 2025-October 2025
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Described in the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Call document: : https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/socpl/wp-call/2025/call-fiche_socpl-2025-info-repr_en.pdf
Application form templates
Standard application form (ESF and SOCPL) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Additional documents:
Support & Resources
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