ESF+ – EURES Cross-border partnerships and EURES cross-border initiatives – 2025

Objectives

• To facilitate workers’ intra-EU labour mobility, to boost employment opportunities as well as to support the implementation of the EURES Regulation
• To facilitate cross-border labour mobility in border regions, including those with a common sea border, which do not yet benefit from cooperation structures of regional labour market players

Among financed actions

• Recruitment assistance
• Guidance and information
• Communication and monitoring
• Regional cooperation

Eligibility

• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States
  • Non-EU states: EEA countries (Norway and Iceland)
• A consortium composed of
  • at least 3 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-ECP)
  • at least 2 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-CBI)
• The following entities are only eligible as co-applicants:
  • EURES members or partners
  • Social partner organisations at European, national or regional level
  • Public or private employment services
  • Third sector organisations
  • Other relevant actors active on the EU/EEA labour market

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months
• Contact: : EMPL-ESF-2025-EURES-CBC@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 9 million euros
• Amount of the grant:
  • ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-ECP: between 300.000 and 1.500.000 euros
  • ESF-2025-EURES-CBC-CBI: maximum 200 000 euros
• Funding rate: up to 95% of the total eligible costs