The European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation promotes a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, combating social exclusion and poverty and improving working conditions. It supports Member States efforts in the design and implementation of employment and social reforms at European, national as well as regional and local levels by means of policy coordination, theidentification, analysis and sharing of best practices.
Together with the European Social Fund, the Fund for the European Aid for the most Deprived and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, EaSI forms the fourth pillar of the EU Initiative for Employment and Social Inclusion 2014-2020.
Since January 2014, these programmes form the three axes of EaSI. They support:
OBJECTIVES:
In pursuing these objectives, EaSI will:
Implementation
PROGRESS
The PROGRESS axis of EaSI helps the EU and its countries to improve policies in three thematic sections:
The activities to be funded are defined in a work programme to be adopted by the Programme Committee.
To apply for funding, eligible organisations must respond to a call for tender or/and to a call for proposals.
EURES
The EURES axis supports actions in one or more of the following sections:
Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
This axis supports actions in three thematic sections:
The European Commission does not directly finance entrepreneurs or social enterprises, but enables selected microcredit providers and social enterprise investors in the EU to increase lending. Organisations that can apply for funding are public and private bodies established at national, regional or local level and providing microcredit for persons and microenterprises and/or financing for social enterprises in these countries.
The activities to be funded will be defined in a work programme to be adopted by the Programme Committee.
To apply for funding, eligible organisations must respond to a call for tender or/and to a call for proposals.
Legal Basis: Regulation No 1296/2013 on a European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation ("EaSI”)
Link: Regulation
Eligibility:
The EURES axis of EaSI is open to:
from EU countries and EEA countries, in accordance with the EEA Agreemen
The PROGRESS axis of EaSI is open to all public and/or private bodies, actors and institutions, and in particular:
It can support cooperation with international organisations, and in particular with the Council of Europe, the OECD, the ILO, with other United Nations bodies and with the World Bank.