On 13 and 14 October 2026, over 150 participants gathered in Brussels for the EU Labour Mobility Practitioners’ Network fifth in-person conference, “Beyond policy: Making EU labour mobility work in practice” to discuss practical conditions required to design labour mobility pathways that are effective, fair and sustainable.
MPF publishes the feasibility study developed under the first phase of the Skilled Driver Mobility for the EU (SDM4EU) project.
MPF publishes the “Common Competency Framework for Healthcare Assistants in Long-Term Care (CCF)”, a reference framework that sets out the competencies that healthcare assistants across five EU Member States are expected to demonstrate in their day-to-day work.
The Migration Partnership Facility (MPF), programme financed by the European Commission Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME), launches three new Calls for Proposals, opening new funding opportunities for cooperation between European Union Member States and priority partner countries in three areas of migration management.
Under the VisaWise Armenia project, a series of information sessions were organised by ICMPD Armenia to increase understanding of visa application procedures, fight disinformation and more broadly, to support the EU-Armenia Visa Liberalisation Dialogue.
This article provides a high-level overview of the achievements from MPF III as the phase closes on 30 June 2026.
The MPF convened senior policy makers, EU institutions, partner-country representatives, and leading migration experts to commemorate the first ten years of operations with a two-part event in Brussels on 14 and 15 April 2026.
On 14 and 15 April 2026, the MPF team will bring together senior policymakers, practitioners and partners in Brussels to celebrate the first ten years of the MPF with the event “Enabling Partnerships - A decade of the Migration Partnership Facility".
Bilateral Labour Arrangements, especially flexible, non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs), have been on the uptake in the 2020s as EU Member States turn to them to plug labour shortages, advance migration diplomacy, and build safer, skills-driven mobility schemes with partner countries. This analytical piece by Bianca Varesio and Orlane Janvier analyses the recent surge of such agreements between the EU and partner countries.
