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Global Shortages and Skill Partnerships

This call aims to support the development of ‘skill partnerships’ with third countries to address skills shortages in the EU.

Details

Status
Closed
Publication date
14 December 2022
Opening date
Deadline model
Single-stage
Deadline date
14 March 2023, 17:00 (CET)
Level of funding
EU level

Description

Overview

Objectives

Proposals under this Horizon Europe strand should set out a credible pathway to contributing to the following overarching objectives under the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan:

  • Social and economic resilience and sustainability are strengthened through a better understanding of the social, ethical, political and economic impacts of drivers of change (such as technology, globalisation, demographics, mobility and migration) and their interplay.
  • Inclusive growth is boosted and vulnerabilities are reduced effectively through evidence-based policies for protecting and enhancing employment, education, social fairness and tackling inequalities, including in response to the socio-economic challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Activities/actions supported

Funded project should cover the following elements:

  • Research should focus on countries of destination, with a particular focus on the EU in the context of an ageing population with a shrinking workforce and tax base.
  • Proposals should focus on the shortage model that leads to recruitment of foreign workers through skill partnerships, and should assess their existence and their cause, with particular attention on how to define and measure them
  • Proposals should then focus on third countries of origin, and go beyond single case studies keeping a macro and/or cross-case comparison perspective. Proposals should develop a way to evaluate labour markets and analyse matching needs and shortages compared to the EU.

Anticipated outcomes

Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Enhance EU migration governance by matching analyses of skills shortages in the EU and in non-EU countries.
  • Provide tools to decision-makers to navigate skill shortages in EU labour markets.
  • Present an overview of the trade-offs of filling shortages with migrant workforce vis-à-vis other alternatives such as education/local - and re upskilling/automation.

Institution providing the funding

European Research Council

Size of funding

EUR 9,000,000

 

Conditions

Overview of eligibility criteria

Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from nonassociated third countries or international organisations is eligible to participate. To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:

  • the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions
  • the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States
  • Countries associated to Horizon Europe
  • A list of low and middle-income countries (list available in Work Programme the General Annexes)

Only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:

  • at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State; and
  • at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.

Overview of award criteria

Project proposals will be assessed taking into account the following 3 criteria, for a maximum of 15 points:

  • Excellence (5points);
  • Impact (5 points);
  • Quality and efficiency of the implementation (5 points).

The threshold for individual criteria will be 3. The overall threshold, applying to the sum of the three individual scores, will be 10.

 

Procedures

Application procedures

Project proposals will be assessed taking into account the following 3 criteria, for a maximum of 15 points:

  • Excellence (5points);
  • Impact (5 points);
  • Quality and efficiency of the implementation (5 points).

The threshold for individual criteria will be 3. The overall threshold, applying to the sum of the three individual scores, will be 10.

Application support available

In order to be considered, proposals must:

  • Be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal using the forms provided in the link to the call (see below).
  • Proposals must be complete and contain all parts and mandatory annexes and supporting documents.

More information is available in the text of the call.

 

Link to funding opportunity

Link to the programme for more info