Deadline: 15 October 2020
The European Commission (EC) has announced a call for proposals for Establishing and Testing Integrated Interventions aimed at support People in Vulnerable Situations.
This call for proposals aims to support existing or new partnerships in testing innovative approaches supporting in particular the delivery of Principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights. This multi-stakeholder innovative approach integrates three strands:
- the provision of adequate minimum income benefits;
- activation services supporting the access to employment and
- effective access to enabling goods and services.
Effective coordination between the local, regional and national authorities, as well as cooperation with all relevant stakeholders, such as social partners, non-governmental organisations and service providers is crucial.
This call supports policy innovations and experimentations implemented at a small scale and within conditions that enable their impact to be measured, prior to being replicated on a larger scale if the results prove convincing. This allows policymakers and service providers to gather robust evidence on the effects of a given policy innovation, and to determine what does and does not work. Producing objective empirical evidence on the impact/outcomes of a social policy innovation is important in view of taking decisions on whether or not to pursue or scale up these policies either through the ESF+ or from other sources.
Objectives
The call will support innovative and experimental local/regional-level projects aimed at putting in place comprehensive strategies, mechanisms and services ensuring a holistic approach to support people in (the most) vulnerable situations.
The projects are expected to carry on the notion of the active inclusion approach reflected by the Pillar principle 14 on minimum income and provide for the integrated delivery of the three strands: such as the combination of adequate income support provision with [labour market] activation and effective access to enabling goods and services in an integrated way.
The aim is to establish and enhance cooperation among various organisations (authorities and non-governmental organisations) (a) providing cash benefits, (b) delivering personalised social services and other general services and (c) providing labour market activation measures and to test its implementation.
The Call aims to allow social experimentation with the view to increase the effectiveness, coverage and impact of the integrated approaches and does not focus on a particular single mechanism integrating the three strands of active inclusion.
Funding Information
- The total budget earmarked for the EU co-financing of projects under this call is estimated at 10 000 000 EUR.
- The Commission expects to fund around 8 proposals.
- The indicative duration of the project is expected to be 30 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Type of entities
To be eligible, the lead applicant and co-applicants must be one of the following:
- public authority or public agency expressly mandated in writing by the competent public authorities to assume responsibility for the implementation of the action;
- non-profit organisation (private or public);
- research centres / institutes / higher education establishments;
- civil society organisations;
- social partner organisation at European, national or regional level (in application of Article 197 2. I 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).
Place of establishment
- Legal entities properly established and registered in the following countries are eligible as applicants:
- Bearing in mind the need for a balanced geographical coverage in this call, a maximum of 2 projects proposed by lead applicants from the same country can be selected for funding.
For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=629&langId=en&callId=603&furtherCalls=yes