SOCPL – Information and training measures for workers’ organisations – 2026

Objective

To strengthen the capacity of workers’ organisations in Member States and candidate countries to address challenges related to changes in employment and working conditions as well as challenges related to their effective participation in social dialogue at EU/transnational level.

Priorities

• Priority 1: actions aimed at preparing negotiations of autonomous social partner agreements to be concluded at EU level and supporting their implementation at national level
• Priority 2: actions related to the implementation of the work programmes of existing European Social Dialogue Committees

Among financed actions

• Conferences
• Seminars
• Round tables
• Studies
• Surveys
• Training courses

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established and registered in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • EU Member States
  • non-EU countries (not for coordinator and single applicant):
    • Candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal
• Applications by both single applicants and consortia are allowed
• Single applicants must be a social partner organisation representing workers at European level
• Consortia applicants : proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities and associated partners), which complies with the following conditions:
  • the coordinator must be a social partner organisation representing workers at European, national or regional level
  • when the coordinator is a social partner organisation at national or regional level, the consortium must foresee at least:
    • one organisation from a different eligible country to that of the coordinator and
    • a European-level social partner organisation

Additional information

• Duration: between 12 and 36 months.

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: EMPL-VP-INFO-TRAINING@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 6.670.000 euros
• Amount of the grant: between 150.000 and 700.000 euros

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

• Funding rate: 90% of the total eligible costs