Proposals should include one or more of the following activities (non-exhaustive list):

1. Activities to increase the awareness of migrant women about their work related rights and opportunities, including outreach and empowering activities for vulnerable groups, e.g. women with low educational attainment, little work experience or trauma.
2. Integrated approaches to providing labour market integration support (work related counselling and trainings, language training, up- and reskilling activities) and civic integration courses to migrant women, whilst taking into account other needs (e.g. access to childcare, housing, health or psycho-social support).
3. Mentoring schemes aimed at improving social and economic integration of migrant women.
4. Activities to increase the social, cultural and political participation of migrant women in local communities.
5. Activities to co-design integration support measures with migrant women / organisations representing the interests of migrant women.
6. Trainings and activities to raise awareness among public officials and professionals (e.g. in public employment services and authorities in charge of integration support measures) of the specific needs and situation of migrant women (migrant mothers, in particular) in accessing integration support and public services.
7. Conferences, workshops and mutual learning activities aimed at exchanging experience and disseminating good practices in relation to integration support to migrant women among policy makers and integration support providers.

Additional considerations applicable to this topic:

• Applicants are invited to take note of, avoid duplication with, and build on projects previously funded by the EU in relation to integration.
• To increase the impact of their actions, applicants should pay attention to involving all relevant actors in multi-stakeholder partnerships (e.g. local and regional authorities; public and private service providers, including public employment services; social and economic partners; employers; civil society, including migrant-led organisations etc.).
• Applicants should involve representatives of the main target group – migrant women – in the design of the proposals and in the implementation and evaluation of the project. The project proposals should specify how such involvement has been or will be carried out.
• The involvement of migrant-led organisations in the proposed consortium either as applicants, partners or in a different way will be considered as particularly relevant.
• As regards the whole-family approach, measures should consider the perspective of the entire family, not just the individual beneficiary, recognising that families vary in structure. While projects can certainly target single women, when they are not single, it is important for the measures to also consider the needs of their partners, children, and other family members.
• The Commission welcomes:
  • Proposals with broad geographical scope, engaging applicants from diverse regions across the EU.
  • Proposals involving applicants from more Member States than the minimum number identified in the eligibility criteria, as long as they are relevant for the design of the action.
  • Partnerships between partners with more and less experience in the area of integration, so that less-experienced partners can benefit from the knowledge of the more-experienced.
• Letters of support are not requested for the application and will be disregarded during the evaluation phase.

The target groups of this topic are as follows:

• Migrant women and girls at the transition to adulthood. Particular attention should be paid to migrant mothers and women with vulnerabilities.
• Activities may also include migrant men, if this contributes to the objectives of the topic.
• Public officials and professionals of local and regional authorities and organisations.