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The appropriations of this call for proposals finance measures enabling the social partners and the social actors at company level to familiarise themselves with EU law and policies in the area of employee involvement in  undertakings, to exercise their rights and their duties to this regard and to work together towards the definition and implementation of concrete responses to the challenges posed to workers’ involvement.

The call covers in particular funding of measures aimed at strengthening transnational co-operation between workers’ and employers’ representatives in respect of employee involvement. These appropriations may also be used to fund short training actions as well as actions involving representatives of social partners in the candidate countries in the field of employee involvement. Measures and actions should be inclusive for vulnerable employees in order to achieve inclusion of persons with disabilities.

In order to be eligible, the applicants must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in an EU Member State. In addition, the consortium must comprise of representatives of workers or employers such as:

• for workers: the applicants may be works councils or similar bodies ensuring the general representation of workers; regional, national, European, sectoral or multi-sectoral trade unions;
• for employers: applicants may be the management of undertakings, organisations representing employers at regional, national, European, sectoral or multi-sectoral level. In case of commercial undertakings, the objective of the project must be non-commercial in nature.

As an exception, applicants may also be technical bodies such as non-profit training or research bodies and commercial companies only if the aim of the project is non-commercial.

Projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months and the project’s budget is expected to range between € 200,000 and € 400,000.