Deadline: 16-Sep-25
The European Commission is now accepting proposals to support measures for migrant women’s social and economic integration.
Objectives
- Proposals should address one or more of the following specific objectives:
- Develop targeted support measures to include migrant women in the labour market, and society more broadly, that reflect their specific needs due to, inter alia, educational background, migration and family status.
- Promote whole-of-family approaches to civic integration and labour market inclusion programmes with measures considering the perspective of the entire family, not just the individual beneficiary, recognising that families vary in structure.
- Empower groups of migrant women with particular vulnerabilities or distance to the labour market to become self-reliant (e.g. women having experienced trauma or with a low level of education);
- Strengthen cooperation among relevant actors at the local, regional and national levels;
- Develop good practices on the integration of migrant women, with a view to upscaling and embedding them in more long-term funding structures.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: EUR 9 000 000
Expected Outcomes
- Proposals should focus on contributing to the achievement of one or several of the following outcomes:
- Tested approaches of integrating a whole-of-family perspective in civic integration and labour market support measures which can be disseminated and upscaled.
- Increased knowledge among migrant women of rights and opportunities to participate in the labour market and society, as well as improved access to such opportunities; including among women with vulnerabilities or facing particular challenges.
- Improved understanding among professionals and public officials working on integration programmes of gender equality issues and specific needs of migrant women.
- Sustainable multi-stakeholder cooperation structures at local, regional and national levels, able to address multidimensional needs of migrant women entering the labour market.
- Transfer of experience and good practices about socio-economic integration support for migrant women to less experienced partners and regions.
Eligible Activities
- Proposals should include one or more of the following activities (non-exhaustive list):
- Activities to increase the awareness of migrant women about their workrelated rights and opportunities, including outreach and empowering activities for vulnerable groups, e.g. women with low educational attainment, little work experience or trauma.
- Integrated approaches to providing labour market integration support (workrelated 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).
- Mentoring schemes aimed at improving social and economic integration of migrant women.
- Activities to increase the social, cultural and political participation of migrant women in local communities.
- Activities to co-design integration support measures with migrant women/organisations representing the interests of migrant women.
- 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.
Target Groups
- 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.
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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