The main objective of Preparatory Actions is to prepare future EU actions in various priority policy fields.

Preparatory Actions are divided into five headings as follows:

Heading 1a ‐ Competitiveness for Growth and Jobs

Preparatory actions on:

• Promotion of European and transnational tourism products with special emphasis on cultural and industrial products
• Tourism and accessibility for all
• Euromed innovation entrepreneurs for change
• Your first EURES Job
• Information centres for posted workers and migrant workers
• Activation measures targeting young people — implementing the ‘Youth on the Move’ initiative
• Social innovation driven by social business and young entrepreneurship
• European transport information and booking interface across transport modes
• Ships fuelled by liquefied natural gas (LNG)
• General Aviation — Statistics and Key figures
• Single Market Forum
• Capacity building for end users and other non‐industry stakeholders in connection with Union policy‐making in the area of financial services
• Preparatory action to cover the costs of studies for persons specialising in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and for related academic activities and other educational modules including the functioning of the ENP Chair in the College of Europe (Natolin Campus)
• European partnerships on sport
• E‐Platform for Neighbourhood

Heading 1b – Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion

Preparatory actions on:

• Enhancing regional and local cooperation through the promotion of Union regional policy on a global scale
• The definition of governance model for the European Union Danube Region — better and effective coordination
• on an Atlantic Forum for the European Union Atlantic Strategy
• Supporting Mayotte, or any other territory potentially affected, with the switchover to outermost‐region status
• Towards a common regional identity, reconciliation of nations and economic and social cooperation including a Pan‐European Expertise and Excellence Platform in the Danube macro‐region
• A regional strategy for the North Sea Region
• World cities: EU — third countries cooperation on urban development
• The actual and desired state of the economic potential in regions outside the Greek capital Athens

Heading 2 – Sustainable Growth: Natural Resources

Preparatory actions on:

• RECAP: recycling at local scale of internal plastic scrap created by major Union polymer converting regions
• European farm prices and margins observatory
• Union plant and animal genetic resources
• Future legal base on harmonised Union forest information
• BEST scheme (voluntary Scheme for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the territories of the Union’s outermost regions and overseas countries and territories)
• Development of prevention activities to halt desertification in Europe
• Guardians of the Sea
• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Research on the causes of high and improper antibiotic
• usage
• Fruit and vegetable consumption
• Healthy diet: early years and ageing population
• Mainstreaming climate action, adaptation and innovation

Heading 3 – Security and Citizenship

• Share Europe Online
• Creation of a Union network of experts in the field of adapted care ffor adolescents with psychological problems
• European study on the burden and care of epilepsy
• Enable the resettlement of refugees during emergency situations

Heading 4 – Global Europe

• Strategic environmental impact assessment on the development of
• the European Arctic
• Cooperation with middle income group countries in Latin America
• Business and scientific exchanges with India
• Business and scientific exchanges with China
• Cooperation with middle income group countries in Asia
• European Union‐Asia — Integration of policy and practice
• Water management in developing countries
• Pharmaceutical‐related transfer of technology in favour of developing countries
• Research and development on poverty‐related, tropical and neglected diseases
• Enhanced health care for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic  of Congo (DRC)
• Building resilience for better health of nomadic communities in post crises in  the Sahel region
• Socio‐economic reintegration of children and female sex workers living at mines in Luhwindja, South Kivu Province, eastern RDC
• Building and strengthening local partnerships to develop social economy and to establish social enterprises in Eastern Africa
• New Euro‐Mediterranean strategy for youth employment promotion
• Asset recovery to Arab Spring countries
• Preserving and restoring cultural heritage in conflict areas
• European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps

Heading 5 ‐ Administration

Preparatory actions on:

• Erasmus public administration programme

Each preparatory action has its own level of co-financing, which is defined in each call for proposals.

• Enlargement
• Information Technology
• Land Development
• Migration and Citizenship
• Other Services
• Other Thematic Category
• Rehabilitation of Architectural Heritage
• Social Affairs & Human Rights
• Telecommunications

• Central Government
• Consumer Organisations
• Economically Inactive Women
• Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
• International Organisations
• Large Enterprises
• Parliamentary Bodies
• State-owned Enterprises
• Youth

Each preparatory action has its own contact point, which is defined in each call for proposals.