Call: Social orientation of newly arrived third-country nationals through involvement of local communities, including mentoring and volunteering activities

The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) was set up to promote the efficient management of migration flows and the implementation, strengthening and development of a common Union approach to asylum and immigration. AMIF focuses specifically on the following objectives:

• Asylum
  • strengthening and developing the Common European Asylum System by ensuring that EU legislation in this field is efficiently and uniformly applied
• Legal migration and integration
  • supporting legal migration to EU States in line with the labour market needs and promoting the effective integration of non-EU nationals
• Return
  • enhancing fair and effective return strategies, which contribute to combating irregular migration, with an emphasis on sustainability and effectiveness of the return process
• Solidarity
  • making sure that EU States which are most affected by migration and asylum flows can count on solidarity from other EU States

Description and objective of the assistance to be provided:

• Enhance solidarity by ensuring consistency and complementarity with EU humanitarian assistance, by providing additional support to address emergency situations of heavy migratory pressure in Member States or third countries, or in the event of mass influx of displaced persons
• Support ad hoc humanitarian admission programmes aimed at allowing temporary stay on the territory of a Member State in the event of an urgent humanitarian crisis in third countries.

• Develop activities involving local communities to facilitate the social orientation and active participation of migrants; 
• Strengthen the sense of belonging to the new society and foster an active role in the community at local, regional, national and/or EU level;
• Promote meaningful interactions between the local population and newly arrived migrants;
• Facilitate the transfer of experience, knowledge and practices between the partners of the project and beyond in order to develop more effective actions