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 the topic is to increase the impact and the sustainability of complementary pathways linked to education by increasing the number of admission places offered to refugees and the quality of the programmes.
This should be achieved via one or more of the following specific objectives:
- Facilitated enrolment of persons in need of protection displaced in a non-EU country in European higher education institutions or recognised institutions offering vocational education and training, with a particular focus on areas of studies linked to the needs of the EU labour market;
- Creation of the necessary (facilitated) procedures and support structures to enable admission of skilled persons in need of international protection through complementary education pathway programmes. The procedures and structures developed should match the needs of the specific refugees to be admitted in education programmes and, at the same time, be replicable and serve as a footprint for admissions in the future.
- Promotion of new initiatives or improvement of existing ones led by local actors in the receiving country, e.g., civil society organisations, diaspora communities, local authorities, etc.
- Increased sustainability of programmes for pathways linked to education by leveraging funding tools during and post implementation of projects.
- Increased direct involvement of relevant Member States’ authorities in legal pathways programmes.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should include one or more of the following activities (non-exhaustive list):
- Matching of students in need of international protection to education opportunities/academic programmes/higher education institutions or recognised institutions offering vocational education and training.
- Multi-stakeholder engagement on national, regional and local level (national, regional and local authorities, local communities, academia, student associations, civil society organisations, diaspora communities) to facilitate refugee students’ integration in the destination country by providing tailored support on several areas (accommodation, language courses, mental and social support, administrative support, cultural awareness).
- Foster integrated student support activities on campus offered during the whole duration of the pathway to identify and address refugee students’ needs and to enhance learning outcomes.
- Career counselling activities to enhance self-reliance prospects of students in need of international protection after the completion of their studies in order to access advanced studies / research opportunities, internships/traineeships, and employment.
- Conferences, workshops and mutual learning activities aimed at raising awareness on refugee education pathways and disseminating good practices on the design, implementation and growth of these pathways targeting national and local authorities, university staff and the private sector.
Proposals can include other activities beyond those listed above. Applicants should clearly demonstrate how all proposed activities will help achieve the specific objectives outlined above. Taking into account the transnational aspect of the topic, actions should also foster joint activities between partners in different Member States, such as activities to enable peer-to-peer learning between Member States, including exploring good practices of third countries with relevant experience in complementary pathways, for example, Australia, Canada, the UK, the USA and Japan.
The target groups of this topic are as follows:
- Higher education institutions/academia
- Vocational education and training providers
- Student associations
- National authorities with responsibility for refugee admission, migration for study purposes and integration into the labour market.
- Local and regional authorities (LRAs) with responsibility for integration into the labour market.
- Public and/or private employment services.
- Migrant-led organisations and non-governmental organisations active in the field of promoting complementary pathways and labour market integration.
- 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.
Projects should be designed in such a way to promote the integration of beneficiaries in the host society, including through the support of community sponsorship-like initiatives.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Migration and Citizenship
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities: be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), excluding Denmark
- non-EU countries:
- countries associated to the AMIF (associated countries) 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:
- minimum three applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from three different participating Member States. Affiliated entities and international organisations cannot be counted for reaching the minimum number of participating Member States;
- the following entities can NOT apply as coordinator: profit making entities
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
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: HOME-AMIF-UNION-ACTIONS@ec.europa.eu