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Call for Proposals: Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund- "Integration of Third-Country Nationals" - AMIF-2017-AG-INTE

Call for proposals

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund - “Integration of Third-Country Nationals”

AMIF-2017-AG-INTE

Objective and description


New topics have been opened for submission of proposals under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund within the call for proposals “Integration of Third-Country Nationals” – AMIF-2017-AG-INTE.

 

The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund aims at supporting actions to contribute to the efficient management of migration flows and the implementation, strengthening and development of a common Union approach to asylum and immigration.

 

The call for proposals refers to the following topics:

  1. AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-01: Raising Awareness on migrant's contribution to EU Societies
    Projects under this priority should focus at highlighting the positive contribution of migrants to our societies;  Communicating real facts about migration and integration; Combating stereotypes against third-country nationals; Contribute to giving a voice to third-country nationals in the public debate on migration and integration.
  2. AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-02: Community Building at local level for integration including through volunteering activities

Projects under this priority should focus at supporting community building activities aiming at the integration of third country nationals at local level; Promoting exchanges between third-country and host-country nationals at local level; Building partnerships and cooperation among all the actors involved in promoting integration at community level.

  1. AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-03: Pre-departure and post-arrival support for the integration of persons in need of international protection who are resettled from a third country including through volunteering activities

Projects under this priority should focus at pre-departure activities aimed at preparing resettled third country nationals for their life in the new country and managing their expectations; as a first step in the integration process, these should serve as a basis for subsequent post-arrival activities. Post-arrival activities, especially building on and deepening pre-departure activities, ensuring first reception, and enabling effective integration of resettled people; Capacity-building in the receiving communities, including through the promotion of structured co-operation and partnership among national, regional and local actors, ranging from national administrations to NGOs, associations, refugee organisations, religious institutions, municipalities, volunteer networks, schools, universities, service-providers, potential employers and others.

  1. AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-04: Promote swift integration of TCNs into the labour market through strengthened cooperation and mobilisation of employers and social and economic partners

Projects under this priority should focus at promoting early and effective integration in the labour market of third-country nationals, by creating effective transnational partnerships with all actors concerned and in particular social and economic partners, employers, public and private employment services and national and local authorities to foster the development of tools, methods, capacity building and experience exchanges; raise awareness about the conditions for early and effective labour market integration of third-country nationals, as well as of its economic and social benefits and mobilise employers and other key actors to become active on this topic.

  1. AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-05: Integration of victims of trafficking in human beings
    Projects under this priority should focus at  ensuring that victims of trafficking receive appropriate assistance and support as soon as there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person is a victim of trafficking; ensure gender-specific and child sensitive assistance and support measures, including taking into account specific needs of the victims; ensure integration of third country national victims of trafficking in the host society, taking into account the perspective of the victims and in view of finding durable solution.

 

Each project application submitted under the present Call for Proposals must address only one of the aforementioned priorities. if an organisation wishes to address more than one priority of the call, it needs to submit a separate proposal under each Topic in the submission page.

 

Eligible activities


The following types of activities are eligible under this Call for Proposals:

AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-01: Raising Awareness on migrant's contribution to EU Societies:

·         projects in schools, sport clubs or youth clubs – targeting youth in particular;

·         creation of audio-visual campaigns, also to be distributed to the public at large through the use of social media, which can include testimonies from third-country nationals and EU citizens on their personal experiences related to migration and integration;

·         training for media professionals on how to find and communicate real facts about migration and the contribution of migrants to society;

·         public communication campaigns by local or regional authorities.

AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-02: Community Building at local level for integration including through volunteering activities:

·         cultural exchanges, in particular to promote culture and values of the receiving society, European values and the culture of the country of origin, including in the context of the 2018 European Year for Cultural Heritage;

·         volunteering based activities in support of integration activities, involving EU citizens and third-country nationals at the community/neighbourhood level;

·         sport, cultural and other educational activities;

·         activities aiming at empowering migrants to participate in general community life.

AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-03: Pre-departure and post-arrival support for the integration of persons in need of international protection who are resettled from a third country including through volunteering activities:

·         Pre-departure activities;

·         Post-arrival activities;

·         Activities to prepare host communities for the arrival of resettled people

 

AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-04: Promote swift integration of TCNs into the labour market through strengthened cooperation and mobilisation of employers and social and economic partners:

·         Developing measures or design schemes aiming to facilitate the labour market integration of third-country nationals and in particular refugees;

·         Exchanging methods and practices on the different above-mentioned measures and schemes and promoting capacity building related to labour market integration of third-country nationals among employers, employers' organisations, chambers of commerce and industries, trade unions and migrants’ associations;

·         Promoting the "Employers together for integration" initiative and mobilising employers to actively promote integration in their workforce and beyond.

 

AMIF-2017-AG-INTE-05: Integration of victims of trafficking in human beings:

·         Actions on assistance and support measures should address the needs of third country nationals, especially women and children, including unaccompanied children, who are victims of trafficking and have specific needs (pregnancy, psychological trauma, physical injuries and age). It is crucial that the measures incorporate a gender-specific approach and are taken in view of finding durable solutions and take into account individual assessment of the specific situation of the victims. Actions should address: support during procedures before national authorities; legal and medical assistance (including psychological support); accommodation and other relevant assistance and support measures.

·         Actions related to the integration of third country nationals who are victims of trafficking should, in particular, address the perspective of the victims, with a view to assisting their integration in the host society. This should include, but not be limited to, possibilities for education, vocational training and apprenticeship programmes; job placement services; income generating activities; and specialized family or dependant support. A gender-specific approach to such actions is considered important.

 

Eligible applicants


Applicants and co-applicants must be legal persons established in an EU Member State, with the exception of Denmark.

 

1.     Public bodies (including local authorities, public employment services, youth services and education institutions) or entities working on a non-profit basis;

2.     International organisations may be established outside of the Member States of the European Union participating in AMIF.

3.     Applications related to priorities 1, 2, 3 and 4 may be submitted by international organisations, which may be also co-applicants in these cases. International organisations cannot submit applications related to priority 5 or be co-applicants for these applications;

4.     Union agencies can be neither Applicants or Co-applicants;

5.     For-profit organisations established in a Member State participating in AMIF can participate as co-applicants in applications related to priorities 1, 2 and 4, but cannot act as lead applicants/coordinators. Their participation must be strictly on a non-profit basis.

6.     For-profit organisations cannot submit applications related to priorities 3 and 5 or be coapplicants for these applications;

7.     Applications related to priorities 1, 2, 3 and 4 must involve a partnership of at least three distinct organisations from at least two different Member States participating in the AMIF. Applications related to priority 5 must involve a partnership of at least two distinct organisations from at least two different Member States participating in the AMIF;

 

Budget


The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects is estimated at EUR 25 million, which is provisionally allocated as follows:

·         Priority 1 – EUR 5 000 000

·         Priority 2 – EUR 5 000 000

·         Priority 3 – EUR 3 430 000

·         Priority 4 – EUR 8 000 000

·         Priority 5 – EUR 3 570 000

 

The EU grant is limited to a co-funding rate of 90% of the total eligible costs of the action.

 

For applications related to priorities 1, 2, 3 and 4, the grant amount requested must be between EUR 450,000 and EUR 1,000,000.

 

For applications related to priority 5, the grant amount requested must be between EUR 200,000 and EUR 500,000.

 

Deadline for proposals’ submission


The deadline for all topics is 1 March 2018, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

 

Applicants must submit their proposal electronically, following the link on the submission service.

 

Further information


Please find attached the corresponding call documents.

 

You can find more information at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/y927myr3

 

Kind regards,

Flora

 

Flora Stavropoulou
Junior Officer

European Office of Cyprus

Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor

B-1000, Brussels

Tel/Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85

E-mail: eoc.brussels2@ucy.ac.cy

 

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