Promotion of Social Inclusion and Combating Poverty and All Forms of Discrimination
The European Social Fund (ESF) supports projects in Upper Austria aimed at the active inclusion of disadvantaged individuals, improving employability, and combating poverty and discrimination. Calls are published regularly.
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Grant criteria
Funding objective
The ESF supports measures to prevent and combat unemployment, to expand training opportunities, and to improve the functioning of the labor market. The goal is to stabilize marginalized groups through counseling, support, qualification, and employment; target group-specific employment projects; offers for excluded youth and young adults; as well as awareness-raising and support for formally low-skilled workers in job-related further training.
Eligible to apply
- Companies
- Public Institutions
Funding requirements
- There must be no doubt about the skills required of the applicant to carry out the service.
- The reliability and administrative, financial, and operational capacity of the project sponsor must be demonstrated.
- The funding application submitted within the framework of a call must include at least a substantive description of the project as well as a performance, cost, schedule, and financing plan corresponding to the project.
- The amount of project costs is economically reasonable.
- The overall financing of the project is secured.
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Description
The European Social Fund (ESF) in Upper Austria enables companies and public institutions to implement projects promoting social inclusion as well as combating poverty and discrimination through **grants**. Calls are continuously published in the thematic areas of social affairs, education & training, engagement for social cohesion/democracy, and work & social issues. The aim is to open up new perspectives for disadvantaged and excluded individuals, improve their employability, and dismantle structural barriers in the labor market. Through target group-adapted concepts, offerings for marginalized groups, youth, and young adults can be established – ranging from **coaching** and **qualification measures** to social employment projects. The Upper Austria region thus creates a framework for sustainable initiatives to stabilize vulnerable groups in the long term.
The ESF particularly supports measures to prevent and combat unemployment as well as to expand training opportunities. Funding is provided for a combination of counseling, support, qualification, and employment, benefiting both those with formally low qualifications and young people at the margins of the labor market. Prerequisites for funding include, among others, proven professional and administrative capacity, a convincing project and financing plan, and the economic appropriateness of costs with secured overall financing. Double funding is excluded, and projects must not be feasible or not feasible to a sufficient extent without support. Calls and detailed deadlines are published in a timely manner on the portals of the State of Upper Austria and the ESF.