Apply for funding from the ESF Plus program "Shaping change in work in a social partnership: further training and promoting equality"

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Demographic, digital and ecological change pose major challenges for the economy and the world of work, for companies and employees alike. For companies, this means

secure and develop skilled workers,
adapt qualifications to changing requirements and
strengthen a sustainable HR policy and corporate culture in order to promote flexibility, gender equality, diversity and participation in the world of work.

This is where the funding guideline for the ESF Plus program (ESF social partner guideline) "Shaping change in work through social partnership: further training and promoting equality" comes in.
The ESF Social Partner Guideline is a joint initiative of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS), the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB).

Purpose and object:

By establishing sustainable further training structures in companies and strengthening the equal, livelihood-securing participation of women in the labor market, the innovation and competitiveness of companies is to be strengthened and the professional competence of employees is to be maintained and promoted. The involvement of the social partners is of particular importance.
Funding is provided for

Field of action 1: Promoting further training in times of change

The establishment of a sustainable personnel development and further training structure and corporate culture that promotes participation,
testing new forms of work and working time models

Field of action 2: Shaping equality

Increasing the participation of women in the workforce in line with their qualifications and to secure their livelihoods

Field of action 3: Regional alliances to strengthen further training and/or gender equality in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Establishing or supplementing regional networks for qualification and/or equality in SMEs to increase transparency, systematization and interlinking,
the further development of regional offers for further training and/or equality for SMEs

Field of action 4: Model development of innovative approaches to strengthen further training and/or equality

The establishment of sustainable further training structures in companies and/or to strengthen the equal, livelihood-securing participation of women in the labor market

Recipients of funding:

Companies, in particular SMEs and social partners

Type and scope:

The funding is granted in the form of pro rata financing with grants. Depending on the field of action (see above), the funding rates range from up to 50% of the total expenditure to up to 80% of the total expenditure of the projects.

Applications are approved by the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See (DRV KBS). The DRV KBS has the following tasks
informing the applicants and providing advice on funding,
examine applications,
approve and pay out grants and
review projects.

The duration of an individual project is usually up to 3 years. The standard duration of 3 years may not be exceeded when submitting an application and receiving initial approval.

The Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (f-bb) and the Bundesarbeitskreis Arbeit und Leben e. V. (Federal Working Group on Work and Life) have been commissioned with the management office. The tasks of the registry include

Mobilizing and informing the social partners, companies and potential applicants,
Advice as part of the expression of interest procedure,
Preliminary examination of the expressions of interest,
monitoring the content of program implementation and monitoring.

The funding procedure for the ESF Social Partner Directive is a two-stage process. In the first step, you submit an expression of interest. In the second step, the selected project sponsors are invited to submit an application.

Step 1:

You submit expressions of interest electronically via the Z-EU-S IT funding portal. Please note the deadlines announced separately.
The coordinating body evaluates the submitted expressions of interest. The selection is based on defined selection criteria and weightings, including quality of the project concept, quality of project implementation, aspects of suitability and funding, potential for continuation and distribution requirements.

Step 2:

Participants in the selection process whose projects have been positively assessed will be invited to submit a formal, written funding application to the DRV KBS via the Z-EU-S IT funding portal once the funding provider has made its decision.

If the project is approved, the usual regulations for grants apply, supplemented by special regulations for federal funding from the European Social Fund 2021-2027.

Applications can be submitted by

legal entities under private and public law
partnerships with legal capacity with a permanent establishment or branch in Germany
public companies

The following requirements must be met:

In all 4 fields of action, the measures must be developed and tested on the basis of specific operational needs. The interests of company management and employees must be taken into account.

The following are excluded from funding

Pure research projects, training projects in the sense of initial vocational training and pure qualification measures are not eligible for funding.
Public administration is not eligible for funding.
Natural persons cannot apply for funding.

The written form can be replaced by the electronic form of the qualified electronic signature (qeS) or electronic proof of identity (eID) approved in the Z-EU-S funding portal.

The electronic form is to be given priority.

Only in exceptional cases can a subsequent submission of the signature by post be requested from the granting authority.
In such exceptional cases, the forms entered electronically by the project sponsor/applicant and submitted in Z-EU-S must be downloaded after electronic submission, signed by hand by the authorized representative and also submitted by post. The deadlines indicated must be observed.

Apply for funding from the ESF Plus program "Shaping change in work in a social partnership: further training and promoting equality"

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