The Education and Skills Funding Agency have now published Prior Information Notices in the Official Journal of the European Union confirming that the possibly last) European Social Fund bidding round will be launched on 31 August.
The Prior Information Notices provide an outline of what will be tendered:
- ESF 2014-20 Programme Skills Support for the Workforce/redundancies employed persons aged 16 plus
- ESF 2014-20 Programme Support for NEET and those likely to become NEET aged 15-24
- ESF 2014-20 Programme Skills Support for the Unemployed
As mentioned in the previous ESF news item, keep an eye out on the ESFA website and weekly Update for news of the launch. Tenders will need to be submitted as usual via the Bravo e-tendering portal.
As I have already been engaged by several providers to work with them on potential ESF tenders, please get in touch as soon as possible if you need support writing tenders.