Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)

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Programme for Employment and Social Innovation

The Programme for Employment and Social Innovation is an EU financing instrument with the following objectives:

• promoting a high level of quality and sustainable employment,
• guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, 
• combating social exclusion and poverty 
• and improving working conditions.

The EaSI programme is made up of 3 axes:

• PROGRESS (Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity), which focuses on the modernisation of employment and social policies;
• EURES (European Employment Services), which focuses on job mobility;
• Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship, which focuses on access to micro-finance and social entrepreneurship.

Budget

The total budget for 2014-2020 is EUR 919,469,000 in 2013 prices.

Activities funded

EaSI has three axes. They support:

• the modernisation of employment and social policies with the PROGRESS axis (61% of the total budget);
• job mobility with the EURES axis (18% of the total budget);
• access to micro-finance and social entrepreneurship with the Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis (21% of the total budget).

Source:https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:347:0238:0252:EN:PDF