The European Labour Authority (ELA) launches the fourth edition of its call for good practices 2025, inviting submissions that support fair and effective labour mobility across the EU. The elaborated good practices will be listed in **ELA’s good practice database**, while the selected exemplary practices will be presented and recognised during an ELA event.

[Call for good practice 2025](https://www.ela.europa.eu/en/call-good-practices-2025)

This year’s focus areas:

- information provision on registration and payment of **social contributions**;
- practices (legal and administrative) to detect and prevent **[bogus self-employment](/en/glossary/bogus-self-employment "Often referred to as false self-employment or dependent self-employment, this is commonly understood as involving persons/workers registered as self-employed whose conditions of employment are de facto dependent employment. National legislation and/or court decisions determine this status. This…")**;
- **labour and skills shortages in the health and care sector** ;
- undeclared work.

The ongoing call for good practices is open to **Member State administrations**, but also to other **stakeholders** operating at the **national, regional or local level,** including **social security institutions**, **civil society** and **social partner organisations**. This includes EU Member States and other countries in the [**EURES network**](/en/activities/eures "EURES").

**Good practices should be submitted by filling in the** [**application form**](https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/ELACallGoodPractices2025) **by 19 May 2025.**

Applicants are encouraged to submit good practices also on other topics related to EU labour mobility and may submit more than one good practice.

Should you have any questions, please [contact us](https://www.ela.europa.eu/en/services/contact?service_id=1116).

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The aim of the [ELA call for good practices](https://www.ela.europa.eu/en/call-good-practices) is to foster the exchange, dissemination, and adoption of effective approaches and knowledge among Member States and further contribution to the effective application and enforcement of EU labour mobility law and social security coordination within the EU.