AMIF – Integration and inclusion at regional and local level – 2023

Objectives

• To help develop and implement local integration strategies as well as increasing the effectiveness of migrants’ inclusion at regional and local level

Priorities

• Priority 1: to faster inclusion of migrants, making it more effective and with less administrative burden
• Priority 2: to improve engagement and participation of migrants involved in the project at the local level
• Priority 3: to replicate good practices and a methodology for the development and implementation of local integration initiatives and strategies
• Priority 4: to improve cross-border cooperation between authorities and other stakeholders involved in issuing scalable/replicable good practices and a methodology
• Priority 5: to improve cooperation between national and local authorities
• Priority 6: to enhance visibility of the views and opinions of migrants associations and migrants at national, regional and local level

Among financed actions

• Design and implementation of local integration strategies with concrete objectives
• Trainings, including language learning and vocational training, workshops and mutual learning activities on good practice on specific integration topics
• Volunteering, “buddying” and mentoring activities with concrete objectives
• Training of cultural mediators or interpreters who will accompany migrants through the integration process
• Creation of know-how and best practices on integration with concrete objectives that will be upscaled and disseminated through specific activities
• Creation of rural partnerships that will work on concrete outcomes to ensure inclusion and integration of migrants in rural areas

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the call: 36 months

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be an EU Member States excluding Denmark
• Be an international organisation
• Be an entity without legal personality
• Be an associations and interest groupings
• Countries currently negotiating association agreements
• Profit making entities and International Organisations can not apply as coordinator
• A consortium composed of at least 5 entities, established in at least 5 different EU Member States must be constituted

• Total budget of the call: 40 million euro
• Total budget of the topic “AMIF-2023-TF2-AG-CALL-02-LOCAL”: 8 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 1 and 2 million euro
• Co-financing rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs