European Commission shares best practices. For the period 2021 – 2027, the EaSI programme will become a strand under the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+).
What is EaSI?
The Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme is a financing instrument at EU level to promote a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, combating social exclusion and poverty and improving working conditions.
What is in it?
The strand will directly support social innovation, social entrepreneurship and cross border labour mobility with a dedicated financial envelope of €676 million.
EaSI will support analytical activities, capacity building and transnational/cross-border cooperation to strengthen social protection and social inclusion, fair working conditions, equal access to the labour market and to enhance labour mobility.
EaSI calls for proposals -together with ESF+ Technical Assistance will be published here.
The European Commission published a new call for proposals on “Social innovations for a fair green and digital transition”, under the EaSI strand of the European Social Fund+.
Earmarking a total budget of EUR 10 million, the European Commission aims to support the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights funding 15 to 20 projects that develop and test integrated and inclusive social innovation approaches to promote a fair green and digital transition.
The activities to be funded are as diverse as capacity building, awareness and communication, developing and testing innovative approaches to counter energy and transport poverty, to strengthen the employability of vulnerable groups in the green and digital economies, to promote new sustainable forms of business and consumption, including in the circular and social economy, and many others.
You can find out more about this call EASI-2022-SOC-INNOV on the Funding and Tender Portal.
Submission deadline is 2 August 2022.