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Transnational cooperation in the ESF helps develop better and more effective employment and social policies and improve the delivery of reforms, essentially by enabling people to learn from experiences and good practice in other countries.

Transnational cooperation is implemented in three different ways:

On the basis of common themes, whereby Member States benefit from an EU-level platform established and operated by the Commission (the Common Framework);
Without central coordination (the flexible approach);
Through a combined approach of the above.

... More on the Common Framework and Transnational Cooperation

The ESF Transnational Platform (ESF TP) helps European Social Fund users to work with partners in other countries:

Search the partner database to find partners & build Transnational Cooperation Agreements (TCA).
Create 1°) your Organisation, 2°) your Project and 3°) your TCA (please log first).
Use ‘myTNC’: to manage your profile and contributions, projects and TCAs.
I submitted my TCA on line... and then ??

Other resources:

Networking & discussion forums
Document library
ESF TP Newsletter. Feel free to subscribe to the Newsletter!

Where to start?

Create a user account and log in. User guides: Database guide and Short TCA guide.
Quick video: Where is my project, organisation or contribution?
Check for more user guides in the Technical support Forum.

Orphan projects?

Your project is accepted, but you still need a Transnational Cooperation partner...?
You need/want to find actively searching-partners...?
Then, Use the forum "Discussions on projects" to promote your active search via a quick message:
- you can insert a link to your TPI project in messages you post
- start the title of your message with "ORPHAN-"
- don't forget to update your message if you found a partner
- don't forget to log with your user account to send replies or comments.