The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) 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 2019 AMIF work program for Union action includes:

• Actions to reduce the incentives for irregular migration (helping third-countries to meet their obligations as regards readmitting their own nationals residing irregularly in the EU, support for reintegration measures, providing information and awareness-raising on the risks of irregular migration, tackling migrant smuggling, support for the deployment of European migration liaison officers); and
• Actions relating to the integration of third-country nationals into Member States’ societies.

The present Call for proposals aims at funding projects in seven topics:

Topic 1: Fostering the integration of persons in need of protection through private sponsorship schemes (Budget available 4.000.000 EUR)

Topic 2: Social orientation of newly arrived third-country nationals through involvement of local communities, including mentoring and volunteering activities (Budget available 4.000.000 EUR)

Topic 3: Social and economic integration of migrant women (Budget available 4.000.000 EUR)

Topic 4: Awareness raising and information campaigns on the risks of irregular migration in selected third countries and within Europe (Budget available 4.850.000 EUR)

Topic 5: Support to victims of trafficking in human beings (Budget available 2.550.000 EUR)

Topic 6: Protection of children in migration (Budget available 1.700.000 EUR)

Topic 7: Transnational projects by Member States for training of experts in the area of asylum and immigration (Budget available 400.000 EUR)

Each project application submitted under the present Call for proposals must address only one of the following topics (if you wish to address more than one topic of the call, you need to submit a separate proposal under each topic in the submission page).

ELIGIBILITIY CRITERIA

All the applicants and co-applicants must fulfill the following eligibility requirements for applications to be eligible.

The following entities can apply as lead applicants:

• public bodies, for all topics of this Call;
• non-profit-making private entities, except for topic 7;
• international organisations, except for topics 5 and 7

The following entities can apply as co-applicants:

• public bodies, for all topics of this Call;
• non-profit-making private entities, except for topic 7;
• profit making entities, except for topics 5 and 7;
• international organisations, except for topics 5 and 7;

The following are not eligible, neither as applicants nor as co-applicants:

• Union Agencies
• natural persons

Except for international organisations, applicants and co-applicants must be established in the following countries to be eligible:

• the Member States of the European Union apart from Denmark;
• for topic 1, entities from Switzerland and Canada, only as co-applicants and only on a no-cost basis.

ELIGIBILITY OF THE APPLICATION

In order to be eligible, applications:

1. I) must be transnational, i.e. involve at least two (for topics 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7) or three (for topics 2 and 3) eligible entities established in two (for topics 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7) or three (for topics 2 and 3) different Member States participating in the AMIF program .

1. II) must request an EU contribution:
2. between EUR 400.000 and EUR 1.000.000 for topics 1, 2 and 3;
3. between EUR 300.000 and EUR 1 000.000 for topic 4;
4. between EUR 300.000 and EUR 600.000 for topic 5;
5. between EUR 300.000 and EUR 600.000 for topic 6;
6. between EUR 300.000 and EUR 400.000 for topic 7.

Applications seeking lower or higher EU contributions will be rejected.

III) must have an implementation period of:

1. maximum 36 months for topic 1,
2. maximum 24 months for topics 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Applications for projects scheduled to run for a longer period will be rejected. Activities must not have started prior to the date of submission of the grant application.

Deadline for submitting proposals is 30 January 2020 at 17:00 CEST.

More information and official documentation is available here