Employment and Social Innovation - PROGRESS programme: Operating grants

The European Commission has published a new call for proposals under the PROGRESS programme, part of Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). The call 'PROGRESS programme: Operating grants to EU level networks having signed a framework partnership agreement for the period 2018-2021 and being active in the areas of social inclusion and poverty reduction, or microfinance and social enterprise finance' has a budget of € 1,1 million.

The call aims at providing specific annual operating grants to networks of organisations active in the area of the promotion of social inclusion and poverty reduction and having previously signed a 4-year Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) with the Commission. The networks support the Commission in its outreach activities at EU, national and local level with the aim of ensuring awareness, contribution to and implementation of EU level policies and initiatives in the areas of the promotion of social inclusion and poverty reduction, for Area 1, or with the aim of ensuring the implementation of the financial instruments for microfinance and social entrepreneurship support under the EaSI axis on microfinance and social entrepreneurship, for Area 2.

The total budget earmarked for the EU co-financing of projects under this call is estimated at € 9.500.000 for area 1 and € 1.500.000 for area 2. The EU grant requested should indicatively be between € 100.000 and € 1.000.000 for area 1, and between € 100.000 and € 600.000 for area 2. Deadline for submitting proposals is September 24, 2018. For more information and documents please click here.