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Funding Opportunities

Social Innovation

SMART ERA for Followers Micro-Pilots

Horizon Europe. Cascade funding. SMART ERA 2nd Open Call for Followers Micro-Pilots. SMART community-led transition for Europe's Rural Areas (SMART ERA).

EURIDICE. Summer School 2026

Digital Europe Programme. Cascade funding. Summer School - Digital Leadership, Social Innovations and Resilience in the Digital Society (DigLead).  EURopean Inclusive education for Digital society, social Innovation and global CitizEnship (EURIDICE).

Evaluation of the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation

The ex post evaluation of the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) including the final evaluation of the European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF)

New EU funding for innovative ideas to reduce long-term unemployment and help people find jobs

Today, the Commission launched a call for proposals worth €23 million to help EU Member States develop new ways of tackling long-term unemployment and support people to find their way back into the labour market. This was announced in the recent action plan to tackle labour and skills shortages in the EU. Through this call […]

InvestEU kickstarts €250 million of investment in affordable social housing, skills and social enterprises under agreement with Council of Europe Development Bank

The InvestEU Investment Committee approved a new guarantee, bringing the total of operations financed by the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) and backed by InvestEU to five. With this, the overall amount of the InvestEU guarantee approved for CEB projects has reached €80 million. The CEB projects are expected to mobilise €252.5 million in […]

Social experimentation. A practical guide for project promoters | ESF+

Social experimentation. A practical guide for project promoters Luxembourg: OPOCE, 2022 This practical methodological guide aims to support practitioners, primarily future EaSI project promoters preparing a social experimentation proposal in the 2021-2027 programming period. However, it can also be useful for other stakeholders, notably those responding to ESF+ national and regional calls on social innovation […]