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Promoting complementary pathways linked to education and/or work
Funding Program
Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
Call number
AMIF-2023-TF2-AG-CALL-05-PATHWAYS
deadlines
Opening
17.01.2023
Deadline
16.05.2023 17:00
Deadline - 2nd stage
Opening
02.02.2023
Funding rate
90%
Call budget
€ 6,000,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project
between € 1,000,000.00 and € 2,000,000.00
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Call content
short description
This topic aims to increase the impact and the sustainability of complementary labour pathways as regards numbers of legal admission places and the quality of the programmes.
Call 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.
Programmes should be designed in such a way to promote the integration of beneficiaries in the host society.
Expected effects and impacts
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.
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Expected results
Proposals should focus on contributing to the achievement of one or several of the following outcomes:
- reinforced and expanded sustainable networks between national authorities, labour market actors at local/regional/national level, international organisations and relevant NGOs to advance complementary pathways linked to work leading to concrete admissions;
- well-developed and tested methods and tools for international recruitment of persons in need of international protection outside the EU and matching them with shortages in the European labour market (possibly as an element of the EU Talent Pool that is currently under development);
- strengthened support at the local and national level for the development of complementary labour pathways, particularly through building effective partnerships between relevant stakeholders;
- higher number of organisations involved in designing and implementing complementary labour pathways and more clarity/awareness about their role/contribution and the added value of their engagement in complementary pathways.
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Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
eligible entities
Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
Yes
Project Partnership
Proposals must be submitted by:
- minimum three applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from three different participating Member States
- the following entities can NOT apply as coordinator:
- profit making entities
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
Specific cases:
- Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of selfemployed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
- International organisations are eligible and can be coordinators. International organisations can participate as co-beneficiaries regardless of their geographical location. As a result, their geographical location is irrelevant and in analogy, being based in an eligible country cannot be taken into consideration in calculating the minimum of countries within a partnership. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
- Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
- EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
- Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality'. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).
other eligibility criteria
Financial support to third parties is not allowed.
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
project duration
max. 36 months
Additional Information
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System ( NOT the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
- Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
- Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)
- mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded):
- detailed budget table: not applicable
- CVs of core project team: not applicable
- activity reports of last year: not applicable
- lis of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years): template available in part B but to be submitted as a separate annex
Proposals are limited to maximum 50 pages (Part B without annexes).
Call documents
AMIF Call for proposals 2023-TF2-AG-ENAMIF Call for proposals 2023-TF2-AG-EN(1553kB)
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