EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND+ (ESF+) – EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme – 2026

Objectives

• To ensure around 4 000 placements for mobile jobseekers of all age groups with special focus on young people
• To fill hard-to-fill vacancies and labour shortages as identified in national/EU labour market studies or other data sources
• To address labour market needs, in particular tackling labour markets’ imbalances, as well as labour and skills shortage
• To improve the conditions for jobseekers and workers to exercise their right of freedom of movement across the EU
• To enhance the service catalogue of the EURES organisations
• To foster public-private partnerships within EURES

Among financed actions

• Information, matching, recruitment and placement
• Direct financial support to jobseekers
• Direct financial support to SMEs for training programmes

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States
  • Non-EU countries: EEA countries (Norway and Iceland) in accordance with Article 29 of the ESF+ Regulation
• Coordinators (lead applicants) must be non-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. Those services must include information, recruitment, matching and pre- and post-placement support.
• Co-applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities listed in the following categories:
  • EURES member organisations (i.e. National Coordination Offices, EURES Members and Partners)
  • Public or private labour market actors (including the third sector) providing services from the range of services provided by lead applicants and/or complementary customer-oriented services in other expertise fields such as information, training, education, career guidance, mentoring, legal advice, integration support or another equivalent
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal
• A consortium composed of at least two applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities) must be constituted. Those two beneficiaries must be EURES Member/Partner organisations established in different EU/EEA Countries.

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: EMPL-ESF-2026-EURES-TMS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 17 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 2.000.000 and 6.000.000 euros per project

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

• Funding rate: 95% of the total eligible costs