GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should include one or more of the following activities (non-exhaustive list):

• Activities to engage national authorities concerned by complementary pathways linked to work, notably Ministries of home affairs and Ministries of Labour to fill information gaps, create closer cooperation across policy fields and establish fast and simple admission procedures.
• Activities to mobilise support and build strong partnerships on complementary pathways between key stakeholders, such as local authorities, employer organisations, business organisations, companies, trade unions, local communities, diaspora communities and other relevant stakeholders, in order to identify the steps and create the necessary procedures to enable the effective implementation of such schemes.
• Developing and providing training to stakeholders, especially to companies and employer organisations on how to take part effectively in a complementary pathway project, building on existing good practices.
• Conferences, workshops and awareness-raising activities.
• Activities relating to engaging companies that might be willing to take part in complementary pathways, in both urban/rural settings, notably through outreach, information provision and motivation.
• Activities relating to mobilising diaspora communities: information campaigns and awareness-raising campaigns, including on promoting the added value for stakeholders in investing in complementary pathways and by mobilising a wide variety of approaches and making use of new technologies.
• Activities to facilitate and/or improve the matching of companies and job offers with people in need of international protection.
• Training of companies to ensure sustainable commitment and the provision of quality support towards workers recruited via a complementary pathway linked to work.
• Pilot projects on work-related complementary pathways, leading to actual admission and job placement, and the evaluation of first experiences of both, employers, and workers.
• Activities to create support programmes for skilled people in need of international protection residing in a country of first asylum to facilitate access to labour migration avenues, building on existing initiatives and partnering with relevant stakeholders.
•  In third countries hosting refugees, organisation of joint study, information campaigns, job fairs etc. with a view to recruiting skilled refugees.

Actions should also foster joint activities between partners in different Member States, such as activities to enable peer-to-peer learning between Member States, also including exploring good practices of third countries with relevant experience in complementary pathways, for example, Australia, Canada, the UK and the U.S.