Funding programme

The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) provides funding for actions in the field of asylum, legal migration and integration, return and countering irregular migration.

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Call overview

This call aims to improve the outreach towards migrants and their access to information regarding healthcare, including sexual, reproductive and mental healthcare.

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Background

The Action Plan on integration and inclusion 2021-2027 calls on the Member States and the Commission to improve access to healthcare for migrants. However, despite multiple efforts made by the Member States and the Commission 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. In recent years, several projects have been funded to improve healthcare coverage, such as vaccination, produce training for healthcare professional or facilitate access to healthcare services, including mental health.

Read more in the call document.

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Objectives

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.

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Activities that can be funded

Proposals should include one or more of the following activities (non-exhaustive list):

• 1. 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.
• 2. Activities to co-design healthcare related integration support measures with migrants, with migrant women and organisations representing their interests.
• 3. 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.
• 4. 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.

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.

Read more in the call document.

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Eligibility

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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Consortium composition

Proposals must be submitted by

• minimum five applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from five 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

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Details on the partnership:

To increase the impact of their actions, applicants should pay attention to involving all relevant actors in a multi-stakeholder partnerships approach (e.g. local and regional authorities; public and private service providers, especially healthcare providers; social and economic partners; employers; civil society, including migrant-led organisations etc.).

Applicants are recommended to involve the target group (migrants in their diversity) in the design of the proposals, in the implementation and evaluation of the project. The project proposals should specify how such involvement has been or will be carried out.

The involvement of migrant-led organisations in the proposed consortium either as applicants, partners or in a different way will be considered as particularly relevant.

The Commission welcomes:

• Proposals with broad geographical scope, engaging applicants from diverse regions across the EU;
• Proposals involving applicants from more Member States than the minimum number identified in the eligibility criteria, as long as they are relevant for the design of the action;
• Partnerships between partners with different expertise and experience on migrant integration, so that synergies can be found, for example between local and more global partners, and less-experienced partners can benefit from the knowledge of the more-experienced.

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Duration

Projects must have a maximum duration of 36 months.

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Budget

The available budget for this topic is EUR 9 000 000.