Support for social dialogue

Topic description

Expected Outcome: Key expected results include: (a) increased awareness of European social dialogue; (b) enhanced European social dialogue at the sectoral and cross-industry levels; (c) improved capacity of social partners, including in candidate countries. These results should lead to a strengthened EU level social dialogue. Scope: This call aims at contributing to the promotion of social dialogue at cross-industry and sectoral level, developing European social dialogue, and building and strengthening the capacity of social partner organisations (both in Member States and candidate countries).

Conditions and documents

Conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout As 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 As 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. non-EU countries (not for coordinator and single applicant): - Candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine 3. Other Eligible Conditions As described in the call document . 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion As described in the call document . 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes As 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 document - page 17. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement Call opening: 21 January 2026 Deadline for submission: 23 July 2026 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels) Evaluation: July – December 2026 Information on evaluation results: January 2027 GA signature: March 2027 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants As 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/2026/call-fiche_socpl-2026-soc-dialog_en.pdf Annex to the call document : Letter of commitment Application form templates Standard application form (ESF and SOCPL) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System ESF and SOCPL MGA Additional documents: SOCPL Work Programmes EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

Budget overview

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