1. Wallis Goelen Vandebrock
Toolkit on the use of EU Funds for the integration of people with a migrant background
Wallis Goelen Vandebrock
Head of Unit, Inclusive Growth, Urban and Territorial Development, Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy
24 January 2018

2. Background
DG HOME-coordinated paper on synergies between AMIF and other EU funding instruments in relation to reception and integration of asylum seekers and other migrants (2015)
June (2016) Action Plan for the Integration of third country nationals  action "Promote the use of EU funds for reception, education, housing, health and social infrastructures for third country nationals"
Omnibus proposal – new investment priority and corresponding indicators
Challenges:
Limited absorption of EU funds in this field
Synergies between the EU funds

3. Objective
To assist national and regional funding authorities in implementing integration policies targeting people with a migrant background through the use EU funds in the programming period

4. Terminology
Use of term “people with a migrant background” to cover a broad spectrum of people:
third country nationals
applicants for and beneficiaries of international protection
stateless persons and persons with undetermined nationality
EU citizens with a migratory background

6. Synergies between EU Funds
1. Strategic policy framework
2. Coordination between the funds on different levels
3. Reinforcing synergies (programming; call for proposals; projects)

7. Implementing integration policies through EU Funds
Measures designed by the funding authorities should take into account the following:
Anti-discrimination
Responding to the needs of the individuals
Empowerment
Integrated Approach
Long-term perspective
Contingency Measures
5 scenarios: Employment, education, housing, reception, basic mainstream services

8. Employment - Ensuring the conditions for long-term labour market integration

9. Education - Ensuring access to inclusive and non-segregated education

10. Housing - Ensuring access to adequate and non-segregated housing

11. Reception - Ensuring integration from day one

12. Basic mainstream services - Ensuring access to basic mainstream services to particularly vulnerable groups

13. Thank you