The European Tracking Service (ETS) Association has been awarded a grant of €4.7m from the European Union (EU) for the next phase of the ETS on Pensions.

The association obtained the funding following a successful project proposal submitted by the ETS Association in response to a call for proposals launched by the European Commission in 2023.

Its aim is to provide a ‘comprehensive’ pension overview to employees who have worked in different countries across Europe.

Through the website findyourpension.eu, people who have worked in different European countries will be able to access their pension entitlements, regardless of the European country they have worked in.

Members of the association are from national tracking services and pension institutions in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, as well as the European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AEIP).

The association has also invited other institutions of all pillars and tracking services to participate.

Consortium partners are building on the results of the ETS Pilot Project, which was co-funded by the EU.

Between 2019 and 2022, the findyourpension website for mobile researchers was broadened and relaunched, and the infrastructure for data transmission was developed.

Belgium was the first country to be connected for a transmission of personal pension data to the ETS.

Following this, in the ‘rollout phase’, further existing national pension tracking systems are to be connected so that individual pension information can be provided “as comprehensively as possible”.

“This project is a fundamental contribution to a social and digital Europe, ensuring that mobile workers are not disadvantaged in accessing pension information compared to non-mobile workers,” the ETS Association said.

“The possibility of a cross-border career is a cornerstone of the EU. In the future, people who decide to work in different EU countries will be better supported in finding their pension entitlements and pension institutions via the findyourPension.eu website.”

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