Deadline: 26 August 2020
The European Commission has announced a call for proposals for the EURES-Targeted Mobility Scheme.
Objectives
- Building on the aim of the European Pillar of Social Rights, to serve as a guide towards efficient employment and social outcomes, the overall objective of this call for proposals is to ensure around 4 000 placements over the duration of the action in economic sectors with hard to fill vacancies.
The action being strongly result-oriented, it may contribute to:
- Enhance the service catalogue of the EURES organisations;
- Foster public-private partnerships and,
- Address labour market needs in line with the bottom lines of the EURES reform;
- Improve the conditions for jobseekers and workers to exercise their right of freedom of movement across the EU and to address labour markets’ imbalances and skills shortages.
Funding Information
- The total budget earmarked for the EU co-financing of projects under this call is estimated at EUR 14,973,768.
- The EU grant requested should indicatively be between EUR 2,000,000 and 4,000,000, thus the Commission expects to fund 3 to 4 proposals.
Duration
- The indicative duration of the project should be 24 months.
Targeted Groups
Following the key principle “Equal opportunity and access to the labour market” of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the action aims at reaching two different target groups:
- Young people aged 18-35 2.
- The age group above of 35+ years
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, lead applicants must be:
- EURES National Coordination Offices, EURES members or EURES partners which are placed in organisations whose main mission is to ensure the provision of employment and placement services to jobseekers, job changers, trainee/apprentice candidates and employers covering jobs and/or work-based trainings. Those services must include information, recruitment, matching and pre- and post-placement support.
- To be eligible, co-applicants must be:
- EURES member organisations (i.e. National Coordination Offices, EURES Members and Partners),
- Public or private labour market actors (including the third sector) providing the same services as lead applicants and/or complementary customer-oriented services in other expertise fields such as information, training, education, career guidance, mentoring, legal advice, integration support or other equivalent.
- Social partner organisation at European, national or regional level (in application of Article 197 2 (c) of the Financial Regulation, social partner organisations without legal personality are also eligible provided that the conditions of the Financial Regulation related thereto are met)
- Consortia
- Only consortia are eligible. They must be composed of a minimum of two organisations (i.e. lead applicant and at least one co-applicant) established in at least two different EaSI-EURES participating countries. At least two of these organisations per Consortium must be EURES Member/Partner organisations
- Affiliated entities
- Legal entities having a legal or capital link with applicants, which is neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation and which satisfy the eligibility criteria, may take part in the action as affiliated entities, and may declare eligible costs.
- For British Applicants: Please be aware that following the entry into force of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement on 1 February 2020 and in particular Articles 127(6)23, 13724 and 13825, the references to natural or legal persons residing or established in a Member State of the European Union are to be understood as including natural or legal persons residing or established in the United Kingdom. UK residents and entities are therefore eligible to participate under this call. a) Place of establishment Legal entities properly established and registered in the following countries are eligible as lead applicants and co-applicants:
Eligible Countries
- EU Member States
- Iceland and Norway in accordance with the EEA Agreement.
For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=629&langId=en&callId=602&furtherCalls=yes