The Social Services Helpdesk on EU Funds project is funded by the European Union and aims to finance the building blocks for a Social Services Helpdesk. The project focuses on supporting social services in better accessing and using EU funds and on helping Managing Authorities to use EU funds (ESF+, ERDF and ReactEU in particular) to finance quality interventions in the field of social services.
Main Objectives
- Promoting capacity building and awareness raising about ESF+, ERDF & React EU (and other relevant EU funds) about how such funds can better support effective social services interventions.
- Facilitating and simplifying the use of and access to EU funds for social services.
- Facilitating exchange and cooperation between Managing Authorities, social services, and the European Commission (EC) to ensure that funding priorities are based on an assessment of social needs and target effective evidence-based social services interventions.
Duration
May 2022 - April 2024.
Funding
Consortium
- EASPD -
Coordinator
European Social Network (ESN) - Social Services Europe (SSE)
- European Ageing Network (EAN)
- Caritas Europa
- Federation of European Social Employers
- Comité Européen des Associations d'intérêt général (CEDAG)
- European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE)
- European Platform for Rehabilitation (EPR)
- Fédération Européenne des Associations Nationales Travaillant avec les Sans-Abri (FEANTSA)
- Eurodiaconia
- Union des entreprises à profit social (UNIPSO)
- Asociace Poskytovatelu Socialnich Sluzeb Ceske Republiky (APSS)
- Fundacion Once para la Cooperación e Inclusión Social de Personas con Discapacidad (FONCE)
- Consorzio Nazionale Idee in Rete (IIR)
- Hubbie
Activities
- Evidence Collection: around the use of ESF+, ERDF (and other funds) in social services, promising practices, needs and challenges
- Knowledge Sharing: to build up capacity of Managing Authorities and Social Services across the EU, including relationship building between civil servants in these fields.
- Toolkit: which will facilitate access to ESF+, ERDF (and other funds) for social services and will support both Managing Authorities and social services.
- Guidance: to facilitate partnership between Managing Authorities and social services to help identify effective social services interventions. This will help to implement EU social policy, and assess how ESF+, ERDF (and other funds) can be used to fund such interventions.
The Social Employers will support and provide feedback on several of the project activities, such as the development of the website content, booklet of promising practices and facilitation workshops
For more information, please contact:
Alina Pavicevac
Project & Policy Officer
Alina.pavicevac(at)socialemployers.e