Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The Fund aims to further boost national capacities and improve procedures for migration management, as well as to enhance solidarity and responsibility sharing between Member States, in particular through emergency assistance and the relocation mechanism.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The general objective of this topic is to increase the impact and the sustainability of complementary labour pathways as regards numbers of legal admission places and the quality of the programmes.
This could be achieved via one or more of the following specific objectives:
- creating new and/or upscaling existing complementary labour pathway programmes to offer more places of admission to skilled persons in need of international protection and address labour shortages in the Member States,
- expanding the number of Member States that implement such programmes and expanding the number of businesses willing to engage,
- creating the necessary (facilitated) procedures and support structures to enable admission of skilled persons in need of international protection through complementary labour pathway programmes.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should include one or more of the following activities (non-exhaustive list):
- Activities to engage national authorities concerned by complementary pathways linked to work, notably Ministries of home affairs and Ministries of Labour to fill information gaps, create closer cooperation across policy fields and establish fast and simple admission procedures.
- Activities to mobilise support and build strong partnerships on complementary pathways between key stakeholders, such as local authorities, employer organisations, business organisations, companies, trade unions, local communities, diaspora communities and other relevant stakeholders, in order to identify the steps and create the necessary procedures to enable the effective implementation of such schemes.
- Developing and providing training to stakeholders, especially to companies and employer organisations on how to take part effectively in a complementary pathway project, building on existing good practices.
- Conferences, workshops and awareness-raising activities.
- Activities relating to engaging companies that might be willing to take part in complementary pathways, in both urban/rural settings, notably through outreach, information provision and motivation.
- Activities relating to mobilising diaspora communities: information campaigns and awareness-raising campaigns, including on promoting the added value for stakeholders in investing in complementary pathways and by mobilising a wide variety of approaches and making use of new technologies.
- Activities to facilitate and/or improve the matching of companies and job offers with people in need of international protection.
- Training of companies to ensure sustainable commitment and the provision of quality support towards workers recruited via a complementary pathway linked to work.
- Pilot projects on work-related complementary pathways, leading to actual admission and job placement, and the evaluation of first experiences of both, employers, and workers.
- Activities to create support programmes for skilled people in need of international protection residing in a country of first asylum to facilitate access to labour migration avenues, building on existing initiatives and partnering with relevant stakeholders.
- In third countries hosting refugees, organisation of joint study, information campaigns, job fairs etc. with a view to recruiting skilled refugees.
Actions should also foster joint activities between partners in different Member States, such as activities to enable peer-to-peer learning between Member States, also including exploring good practices of third countries with relevant experience in complementary pathways, for example, Australia, Canada, the UK and the U.S.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Grant amount: €1 000 000 – €2 000 000
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Employment
- Migration and Citizenship
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- Chambers
- Educational Institutions
- Employers
- International Organisations
- Investment Funds
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Parliamentary Bodies
- Private Bodies
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Target group (main end-users):
- social partners (cross-industry or sectoral organisations):
- European or national associations of employers,
- European, national or regional trade union organisations
- economic partners:
- European, national or regional chambers of commerce and industry,
- European, national or regional skilled craft chambers
- public and/or private employment services
- vocational education and training providers
- national authorities with responsibility for refugee admission, labour migration and integration into the labour market
- regional and local authorities with responsibility for integration into the labour market
- migrant organisations and non-governmental organisations active in the field of promoting complementary pathways and labour market integration
The proposed consortium should include relevant key partners as co-applicants for the achievement of the proposed objectives such as:
- the private sector,
- civil society organisations,
- economic and social partners,
- international organisations and diaspora
- communities as well as persons in need of international protection and migrant-led organisations
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)),
- excluding Denmark, countries associated to the AMIF or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
Consortium composition
- Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), from 3 different eligible countries
- profit making entities can NOT apply as coordinators.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Interior
Contact persons
Doris Constantinou
Administrative Officer
Telephone: 22 409904
Email: dconstantinou@moi.gov.cy
Christina Hadjieconomou
Administrative Officer
Telephone: 22 409944
Email: chadjieconomou@papd.mof.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 14/03/2023-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
Migration and Home Affairs
Telephone: +3222991111 (Commission switchboard)
Email: home-amifunion-actions@ec.europa.eu.