Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market

Call for Proposals on Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market

The Directorate Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion of the European Commission recently published the Call for Proposals VP/2010/014 for the Pilot project All-inclusive cooperation between public authorities, companies and social enterprises in favour of social inclusion and integration into the labour market.

The main purpose of the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market is to promote new models for cooperation between public institutions, companies and social enterprises. The purpose of this new cooperation models is to promote a more effective and coordinated approach to Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market, via the creation of specific partnerships.
This will allow the development of permanent spaces for inclusive cooperation dialogue and thus foster mutual understanding and promote good practice in the field of Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market.
The projects presented in the framework of the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market should contribute to:
– fostering greater awareness of the business world of corporate social responsibility particularly in local communities;
– propose effective solutions to the socio-economic problems suffered by each specific area and target group; and
– generate measurable all inclusive cooperation results in terms of integration of vulnerable groups, with a particular attention to the integration of early school leavers and unemployed young people into society and the labour market.

The activities of the projects submitted in the framework of the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market should aim at the promotion of innovative models of partnership focusing on the identification, measurement and validation of good all inclusive cooperation practice that can be reproduced in other EU countries and regions.

The pilot projects developed in the framework of the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market will be implemented in cooperation and taking benefit from synergies with some of the networks established under the PROGRESS Programme and the transnational dimension of the ESF (Learning Networks), as well as of the work undertaken through the PROGRESS programme on encouraging companies in their corporate social responsibility through local employment development.

By way of example, all inclusive cooperation activities carried out by the proposed partnerships in the framework of projects funded by the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market may concern:
– development and testing of innovative instruments/methodologies;
– actions to raise visibility and awareness on social economy and Corporate Social Responsibility;
- training/information/advice actions;
- case studies, including comparative studies of the situation in different Member States;

The total available budget allocated for the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market is 1,5 million euro.
The maximum European Community financial contribution will not exceed 80% of the total eligible costs for each of the selected projects.

The deadline for submitting proposals in the framework of the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market is no later than 8 April 2011.

Further information on the call for proposals Social Inclusion and Integration into the Labour Market can be found on the European Commission\'s web site