EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS)

Scope

• The EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS) constitutes a European-level labour market measure designed to address labour shortages and hard-to-fill vacancies.
• It combines tailor-made recruitment, matching, training, and placement services with financial incentives. Support measures may vary based on labour market needs and their analysis. They should include provisions for interviews in another EU/EEA country, relocation, linguistic training, recognition of qualifications, as well as recruitment support. The end beneficiaries may include job changers, job/traineeship/apprenticeship seekers, and recruiting businesses, including SMEs, who may receive direct financial support through targeted allowances.
• The activities will encompass the provision of direct services to jobseekers and employers, including:
  • information, matching, recruitment and placement; This may include innovative approaches and matching/recruitment methods to identify and reach individuals with particular skills, qualifications or profiles in line with the needs of specific labour sectors affected by labour shortages, in identified area.
  • pre- and post-placement support to customers (e.g., profiling and pre-selection of candidates, assessment of training needs and skills development, providing interview preparation support, offering information and assistance, addressing challenges that may arise during the early stages of employment, regular monitoring and assessing the performance and satisfaction of placed individuals and employers).
  • direct financial support to candidates to contribute to interview and relocation trip expenses, language training, and recognition of qualifications.
  • direct financial support to SMEs for training programmes for newly recruited individuals.
• In this context the activities funded under this call shall support the implementation of the EURES TMS objectives, ensuring the provision of customized employment services, including innovative working methods to:
  • Tackle labour market imbalances, labour, and skills shortages.
  • Facilitate the matching and recruitment process, as well as the integration of mobile workers in the host countries.
  • Provide financial incentives.
  • Promote and disseminate activities/results to maximize impacts, addressing the challenges posed by labour shortages in identified economic sectors.

Funding Information

• The estimated available call budget is EUR 16 000 000.
• If the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000.

Expected Outcomes

• The action targets the filling of hard-to-fill vacancies and labour shortages as identified in national/EU labour market studies or other data sources.
• The action, being strongly result-oriented, may contribute to:
  • addressing labour market needs, in particular tackling labour markets’ imbalances, as well as labour and skills shortages;
  • improving the conditions for jobseekers and workers to exercise their right of freedom of movement across the EU;
  • filling of hard-to-fill vacancies (in the form of either jobs, traineeships or apprenticeships), notably where specific labour shortcomings have been identified;
  • enhancing the service catalogue of the EURES organisations;
  • fostering public-private partnerships within EURES.
• This call may contribute also to the initiatives and activities in the context of 30th anniversary of EURES in 2024.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible participants (eligible countries)

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies),
  • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
    • non-EU countries:
      • listed EEA countries associated to the ESF+
• Coordinators (lead applicants) must be no profit entities, listed in the following categories:
  • EURES National Coordination Offices,
  • EURES members or EURES partners which are placed in organisations whose main mission is to ensure the provision of employment and placement services to jobseekers, job changers, trainee/apprentice jobseekers and employers covering jobs and/or work-based trainings.

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