GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The specific objectives of are the following:

• To support and promote cross-border and transnational cooperation and increase mutual trust among public authorities in charge of the implementation of administrative cooperation and mutual assistance as well as monitoring the compliance with and enforcement of the applicable rules and stakeholders, including the promotion of the use of the Internal Market Information System and sharing experiences and evidence-based good practices in this respect;
• To increase the accessibility, transparency and quality of the information concerning the terms and conditions of employment to be respected and the existing practices in the MS to monitor and enforce the provisions of the Posting of Workers Directive;
• To promote the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation of original data, and the analysis specific to the posting process and posted workers’ working conditions, including through the collaboration between universities across various disciplines, research centres and institutes and stakeholders, in particular social partners.

Activities aim at supporting competent authorities in MS and social partners in administrative cooperation, in increasing access to essential information for posted workers, to promote the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation of original data and analysis.

The following activities may be co-financed: Cooperation / Information / Evidence

The activities carried out under the above-mentionned strands should have a specific focus on:

• a certain sector (i.e. construction, road transport, healthcare, meat processing etc.), and/or
• the type of a posted worker (i.e. seasonal worker, temporary agency worker, posted third country national etc.), and/or
•  the situation of the posted worker (i.e working in the situation of subcontracting, health and safety of the worker, remuneration conditions etc.).

Applications should focus on one of the above-mentioned three strands in their proposal.