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 promote the socio-economic integration of migrant women and improve the integration support provided to them.

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Background

The Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021-2027 (the “Action Plan”) highlights the possible intersections between migrant status and other segments of discrimination (e.g. gender, sexual orientation, age, and disabilities). It acknowledges that migrant women and girls often have to overcome structural barriers linked to being both a woman and a migrant and calls for stronger action to promote the integration of migrant women. Increasing the labour market participation of migrant women and ensuring they have equal opportunities to participate in society are concrete objectives of the Action Plan. Statistical indicators of labour market integration outcomes show clear gender gaps: In 2023, the employment rate for third-country national (TCN) women was 20 percentage points lower than for female nationals in the EU, while the employment rate for TCN men was only 5.7 percentage points lower than for male nationals. When employed, TCN women are also more likely to be over-qualified for their jobs than both TCN men and female nationals.

Read more in the call document.

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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.

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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 migrant women about their work-related rights and opportunities, including outreach and empowering activities for vulnerable groups, e.g. women with low educational attainment, little work experience or trauma.
• 2. Integrated approaches to providing labour market integration support (work- related 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).
• 3. Mentoring schemes aimed at improving social and economic integration of migrant women.
• 4. Activities to increase the social, cultural and political participation of migrant women in local communities.
• 5. Activities to co-design integration support measures with migrant women /organisations representing the interests of migrant women.
• 6. 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.
• 7. Conferences, workshops and mutual learning activities aimed at exchanging experience and disseminating good practices in relation to integration support to migrant women among policy makers and integration support providers.

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.

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

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 more and less experience in the area of integration, so that 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.