SOCPL-2026-INFO-REPR
Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines · Grant topic
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Supports social partner projects strengthening employee involvement, transnational cooperation and European Works Councils during industrial transitions.
- Who can apply
- Unclear from the source: other.
- Amount
- €2,500,000Indicative budget
- Deadline
- 12 Nov 2026 01:00 CETin 19 days
- Status
- Openopened 2 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Expected Outcome:
The main objective of this call is to develop employees’ involvement in undertakings by raising awareness and contributing to the application of European Union law and policies in this area. The call aims at supporting projects which seek to help accompany through social dialogue at company level the significant changes driven by industry transitions and, in particular, the take-up and effective functioning of European Works Councils. The call shall focus on one or a limited number of topical challenges with a view to maximise both the individual and aggregated impact of the selected projects.
Scope:
Actions to promote European level and strengthened transnational cooperation between social partners that address the following themes would be expected:
- to promote exchange and wider dissemination of knowledge and good practices and to launch actions aimed at supporting the setting up and good functioning of European Works Councils, including the promotion of gender balanced European Works Councils;
- to support workers’ involvement in the anticipation and management of change and the prevention and resolution of disputes in the event of various forms of restructuring in EU level undertakings and groups of undertakings, as required to achieve a just transition, i.e. address challenges brought by the pursuit of EU’s climate objectives (e.g. Council recommendation of 16 June 20225 on ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality), and by the digital transformation of economies (e.g. impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on work organisation or working conditions).
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Other
- Purpose
- Training and people
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- Employee involvement
- Social dialogue
- European Works Councils
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Other condition
- The grant is a budget-based mixed actual-cost grant reimbursing eligible incurred costs; funding rate is 90%.
- Other condition
- Project budgets are expected to range €250,000–€350,000 per project, with other requests possible and awards potentially lower. Projects should normally run 18–24 months; these are expected/normal ranges, not stated hard eligibility bounds.
- Other condition
- For 12–24 month actions, normal schedule is 40% initial prefinancing and a second 40% after an additional report, adjusted if prior prefinancing consumption is under 70%; no interim payments, then balance.
- Other condition
- Applicants submit profiles of staff managing and implementing the project (CVs of proposed main-task performers, notably project manager and key personnel). Project manager requires at least B2 English and 3 years project-management experience; team members require B2 English.
- Expected project duration, maximum
- 24
Normal/expected project duration range only; the source does not state this as a hard eligibility maximum.
- Expected project duration, minimum
- 18
Normal/expected project duration range only; the source does not state this as a hard eligibility minimum.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €2,500,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Eligible cost
- Listed personnel cost categories are employees, direct-contract natural persons, seconded persons, SME owners/natural-person beneficiaries, and volunteers. This call disallows SME-owner/natural-person and volunteer unit-cost options; no role-specific salary rate or cap is set here.
Personnel and services
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Project management
Required staff
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 2 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- SOCPL-2026-INFO-REPR · Information, consultation & participation of representatives of undertakings
- Types of action
- SOCPL Project Grants
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 23 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 16 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.