ESF – Posting of workers: enhancing administrative cooperation and access to information – 2023

Objectives

• To promote 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
• 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

Priorities

• Priority 1: To support the Commission and the Member States to understand existing and new challenges and develop initiatives in the field of posting of workers and a decent work agenda
• Priority 2: To improve access to information on applicable terms and conditions of employment and administrative requirements for companies in a transparent and accessible manner

Among financed actions

• Cooperation: developing new or improving existing exchanges, peer reviews and/or training programmes
• Information: developing and improving different information and/or advisory forms and formats
• Evidence: development of joint research projects on different dimensions of the posting of workers in the context of the transnational provision of services and dissemination of results through targeted publication strategies

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duration of the action: 24 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal entities
• Be a public authorities
• Be an international organisations
• Be a non-profit organisations
• Be a research centres/institutes
• Be a higher Education Institutions
• Be a civil society organisations
• Be a social partner organisations at European, national or regional level

Total budget of the call: 5 million euro