Integrating other migrants from outside Europe
European integration fund call for proposals 2009
We are pleased to announce that the call for tender for the European Integration Fund 2009 Annual Progamme is now open. The European Integration Fund is aimed at newly-arrived migrants who are not asylum seekers, refugees, European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) nationals and who have not come to the United Kingdom in a short-term visa category such as students.
This page explains what the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals (EIF) is and how you can apply for funding. The EIF is a European Commission fund that started in 2007, it will run until 31 December 2013 and is planned over two separate three-year funding periods.
The EIF is aimed at newly-arrived legal migrants (that is migrants who have arrived within the last five years) who are not asylum seekers, refugees, European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) nationals (otherwise known as third country nationals) and who have not come to the United Kingdom in a short-term visa category such as students.
The EIF is one of three EU migration funds (known collectively as the 'solidarity and management of migration flows') that the United Kingdom takes part in. The others are the European Refugee Fund and the European Return Fund.
The United Kingdom receives an annual allocation from the EIF, which it then administers according to the strict rules set by the European Commission. For more information about how the United Kingdom will spend and administer its allocation from the EIF over the lifetime of the Fund, please see a summary of the UK Multi-Annual Programme. Please note that all figures contained in the Multi-Annual Programme are estimated and are subject to change. The division of the funding to the EIF priorities may also change depending on the changing situation at United Kingdom and EU level.
For more information about how the United Kingdom spent and administered its 2007 allocation from the EIF, please see a summary of the United Kingdom's Annual Programme, 2007.
See the list of United Kingdom projects selected for co-funding by the EIF in 2007. Details of projects funded under subsequent years of EIF will be published on this website when available.
Organisations wishing to bid for EIF funding can do so through the annual call for proposals, see the list of United Kingdom projects selected for co-funding by the EIF in 2008. The 2008 call for proposals has now closed. The 2009 call for proposals will be published on this website in September 2009.