Deadline: 16-Sep-25
The European Commission is requesting proposals to improve access to healthcare, migrants still face persistent barriers such as administrative hurdles, lack of information about the healthcare system, linguistic and intercultural obstacles.
Objectives
- The objective of the projects will therefore be to improve the outreach towards migrants and their access to information regarding healthcare, including sexual, reproductive and mental healthcare.
- The projects should look into tools and methods to improve the awareness of migrants on rights and possibilities to access healthcare according to the laws and rules of the specific country of stay as well as their understanding of healthcare system.
- The objective is to ensure that migrants can effectively integrate into the existing healthcare systems, rather than necessitating changes to the systems themselves.
- This should take into consideration the specific obstacles faced by migrants to access healthcare and the specific situations of the various profiles of migrants, including reasons to migrate, migration status, gender, age and other specific needs.
- They should look at good practices and materials produced by previous projects in the field to ensure their adequate dissemination to organisation and staff in contact with migrants, ensuring these projects can reach their full benefits.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: EUR 9 000 000
Expected Outcomes
- Tools and methodologies are available for organisations on integration and on healthcare to improve communication and dissemination of general and specific information on health and healthcare towards migrants.
- More migrants show better understanding of their healthcare rights and have the information needed to access healthcare services more effectively, including migrants with specific needs or facing specific obstacles (for example through questionnaire to the target group).
- More migrants have better access to healthcare, including mental healthcare based on their need, for example as demonstrated through questionnaire to the target group.
- Existing training materials are more widely disseminated and effectively implemented.
Eligible Activities
- Activities to increase the awareness of migrants about their healthcare-related rights and opportunities, including outreach activities for vulnerable groups, e.g. migrants with low educational attainment, isolated migrants, migrants with specific needs, elderly.
- Activities to co-design healthcare related integration support measures with migrants, with migrant women and organisations representing their interests.
- Trainings workshops, mutual learning and awareness-raising activities to raise awareness among public officials, including policy makers, and professionals (e.g. authorities in charge of integration support measures and healthcare authorities and professionals) of the specific needs and situation of migrants and migrant women in accessing healthcare.
- Conferences, workshops and mutual learning activities aimed at exchanging experience and disseminating good practices in relation to effective access to healthcare for migrants in general and migrant women in particular among policy makers and integration support providers.
Target Groups
- The target groups of this topic are as follows:
- Migrants as defined for this call;
- Particular attention should be paid to migrant women, including mothers and women with vulnerabilities, elderly migrants and to young migrant adults, including unaccompanied minors;
- Public officials and professionals of the healthcare sector and of local and regional authorities and organisations.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
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