EU-Turkey Call for Proposals: Improving Occupational Health and Safety Grant Scheme (IOHS)

Deadline: 4 March 2019

The European Union (EU) is seeking proposals to improve occupational health and safety conditions and implementation of coherent and comprehensive strategies.

The objective(s) of this call for proposals are to improve working conditions, constitute safety culture at workplaces, capacity building, support human resources development underline the importance of unionization and compensations due to occupational accidents, raise awareness, reach out the employers, employees and relevant stakeholders at local level for mining sector and very hazardous sectors (except mining sector) determined according to NACE Coding System and to facilitate the fulfilment of legal obligations of workplaces.

The priority of this call for proposals is to improve occupational health and safety condition determined according to NACE Coding System;

• mining sector
• very hazardous sectors (except mining sector).

The main target groups of this Call for Proposals are:

• Employers (who are engaged in the sectors within the scope of this Call for Proposals)
• Employees (who are engaged in the sectors within the scope of this Call for Proposals)
• Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
• Universities
• Families (of employees who are engaged in the sectors within the scope of this Call for Proposals)
• Vocational and Technical High Schools in the field of mining, mechanical, metal, metallurgy, electric and electrical, chemical, construction, agriculture, maritime related technologies.

Applications have to contribute to the fulfilment of the following EESP SOP at least three indicators.

• Number of services and trainings for target groups for employees in most vulnerable sectors,
• Number of services and trainings for target groups for employers,
• Number of services and trainings for target groups for member of trade unions,
• Number of participants to trainings from relevant actors for institutional capacity building,
• Number of social partners/ NGOs/local actors /SMEs supported for promoting decent work for institutional capacity building,
• Number of awareness-raising for persons accessed through campaigns/events,
• Number of coordination & cooperation mechanisms for workshops, conferences, seminars, twinning/IO agreements, etc. with participation of relevant actors.

In addition to the above mentioned, the applications have to address cover one and/or more the specific added-value element of the EESP SOP and other elements, as follows:

• Climate action and sustainable development such as supporting the promotion of green jobs, providing support to the adaptability of SMEs in the frame of modernizing their management style in compliance with more efficient energy consumption and trainings on climate actions etc.,
• Innovation,
• Best practices,
• Concerns of vulnerable groups,
• Improving social dialogue.

Funding Information

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

• minimum amount: EUR 75.000
• maximum amount: EUR 200.000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be non-profit-making and
    • be a specific type of organisation such as
      • Non-governmental organisation (NGO)
      • professional organisations (such as chambers of commerce and/or industry, chambers of tradesman and craftsmen, public servants’ unions/confederations, sector representative organisations, export associations employer unions/confederations, employee unions/confederations, organized industrial zones (OIZ), SME representative organizations),
      • Universities,
      • Vocational and Technical High Schools in the field of mining, mechanical, metal, metallurgy, electric and electrical, chemical, construction, agriculture, maritime related technologies
      • International (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 43 of the rules of application of the EU Financial Regulation .
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or an eligible country according to the article 10 of the CIR and
  • For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. Unless sector-specific eligibility rules provide otherwise , if the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, applicants will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible to participate) or will be required to leave the project on the basis of Article 12.2. of the General Conditions to the Standard Grant Contract of the grant agreement.
  • This obligation does not apply to international organisations and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • There is no minimum number of co-applicant(s).
  • The co-applicant is no obligatory for this Call for Proposals.
  • In case the applicant is not established in Turkey, it must act with at least one co-applicant that is established in Turkey.
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
    • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant) in particular a legal or capital link.
    • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
      • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
        • Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
          • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
          • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
          • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
      • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

How to Apply

• The application procedure consists of two phases:
  • Concept notes
  • Full applications
• The concept note together with the declaration by the lead applicant must be submitted at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2CDqNN6 and download the guidelines.