Funding available for Integration of Third-Country Nationals
Under the ‘Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund’ there is a new call for proposals for the ‘Integration of Third-Country Nationals”. The EU Affairs Office strongly encourages you to see if you could apply for funding to cover your activities that promote migrant integration. See below for activities which could be covered.
Project applications must address at least one of the following priorities:
- Promoting active participation in society overall;
- Promote the development and implementation of innovative actions to increase third country nationals’ participation in educational and social activities, cultural life, the volunteering sector, media professions, decision‑making/consultation and representation frameworks; and
- Foster knowledge- and experience‑sharing and capacity‑building on successful action to increase third country nationals’ participation in society, with a particular focus on social activities, cultural life, sport, the volunteering sector, media professions, decision‑making/consultation and representation frameworks.
2. Pre-departure and post-arrival support for the integration of persons in need of international protection who are being relocated within the EU or resettled from a third country
Funding will be available for the following activities to integrate persons in need of international protection who have been relocated from another Member State or resettled from outside the EU:
The objectives are to support:
- pre-departure activities aimed at preparing resettled third country nationals for their life in the EU; these should serve as a basis for subsequent post-arrival activities (activities could include providing basic information on the receiving society’s legal framework, systems and social and cultural norms, rights and responsibilities; language training and training on skills and attitudes to facilitate integration)
- specific post-arrival activities, especially building on/deepening pre‑departure activities and enabling effective integration of resettled and relocated people; (activities could include language tuition; continuing the socio-cultural orientation provided in pre-departure activities; knowledge of rights, including rights of the child, responsibilities and institutions; skills training; training officials, volunteers and service-providers on working with resettled or relocated people ) and
- capacity‑building in the receiving communities, in particular for service‑providers and potential employers.
To read the detailed overview of this call see here
To read the full text of the call here
DEADLINE TO APPLY! 28 February 2017
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