Website: EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)

The Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme is a European-level financing instrument to promote a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, combating social exclusion and poverty and improving working conditions.

EaSI is managed directly by the European Commission. It brings together three EU programmes managed separately between 2007 and 2013: PROGRESS, EURES and Progress Microfinance.

As of January 2014, these programmes will form the three axes of EaSI. They will 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).

The total budget for 2014-2020 is €920 in 2013 prices.

ESO: Background information: Programme for employment and social innovation (EaSI) http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-programme-for-employment-and-social-innovation-easi/

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