Horizon Europe is the EUs key funding programme for research and innovation. The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges.
First call
The title of the call is “Social services: economic and social returns and value added” (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-04). Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Well-founded evidence on the social and economic returns of social services, including interlinkages between child poverty and gaps in access to social services, and interlinkages in access to employment and access to social services.
- Improved understanding of the channels through which social services may foster and accelerate a fair green and digital transition.
- Identification and use of the best methodology to capture and measure the value added of the provision of social services, including informal social services, in the EU Member States and Associated Countries in different geographical areas (rural and urban).
Budget: The total indicative budget for the topic is EUR 10.00 million. The Commission estimates that an EU contribution of between EUR 2.00 and 3.00 million would allow these outcomes to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of a proposal requesting different amounts.
The deadline for the submission is the 7th of February 2024 and the planned opening date for the call is the 4th of October 2023. For more information, please visit the Commission’s website.
Second call
The call is titled “The role of social economy in addressing social exclusion, providing quality jobs and greater sustainability” (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-09). Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Address challenges of the policy and legal frameworks that hinder the thriving of social economy and the scaling up of its successful activities.
- Better integrate the role and weight of social economy organisations in addressing social exclusion and providing quality jobs in multilevel policymaking.
- Contribute to improve the working conditions in social economy organisations, including in the care sector.
Budget: The total indicative budget for the topic is EUR 10.00 million. The Commission estimates that an EU contribution of between EUR 2.00 and 3.00 million would allow these outcomes to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of a proposal requesting different amounts.
The deadline for the submission is the 7th of February 2024 and the planned opening date for the call is the 4th of October 2023. For more information, please visit the Commission’s website.
To learn more about current calls for proposals or Eurodiaconia’s funding events, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our our Projects and EU Funding Officer Giorgia Signoretto at giorgia.signoretto@eurodiaconia.org.