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REF: VP\/2014\/008<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation \u00abEaSI\u00bb 2014-2020 is a European-level financing instrument managed directly by the European Commission to support Union’s objectives in terms of promoting a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, combating social exclusion and poverty and improving working conditions and contribute to the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy.<\/p>\n \u03a4he overall purpose of this call for proposals is to foster innovation and reforms in the social services to tackle the main challenges identified above and to develop innovative responses corresponding to national, regional and local realities and in line with the social investment approach.<\/p>\n This call foreseen under EaSI Progress axis promotes the social policy experimentation as a method for testing and evaluating innovative solutions with a view to up-scaling them.<\/p>\n 1) using social policy innovations for undertaking structural reforms in the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy, in particular the Country Specific Recommendations received by the Member States as part of the European Semester; <\/p>\n 2) Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion VP\/2014\/00810 strengthening partnerships between public, private and civil society sector to involve in awareness raising activities about the use and benefits of social policy innovation.<\/p>\n The social policy experimentation project has to be submitted and driven by a consortium of stakeholders involved in the process of social policy innovation. This consortium shall bring together key public, private and civil society stakeholders active in the field of social service planning and\/or delivery.Providing information pertinent to policy decisions is the primary rationale for conductinga social policy innovation project. Therefore, the lead applicant must be a public authority or a public body at national, regional or local level having a role to play in policy setting or delivering social services. The role of the public authorities consists in being actively committed to the project by ensuring strong policy leadership and steering of the project, and in securing the use of results beyond the grant period.<\/p>\nMain Objectives<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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