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.
The fourth EU Labour Mobility Practitioners’ Network (LMPN) Conference, held in Brussels on 18–19 November, brought together policymakers, practitioners and international partners to explore how labour migration can be made smoother, more effective and sustainable. Under the theme “From Lessons to Levers: Driving the next phase of labour migration”, discussions focused on mechanisms that influence outcomes—whether through innovation, operational improvements or strategic partnerships.
The closing event for the SkillNet project brought a range of Italian and Pakistani actors together to celebrate the project’s successes in Rome on 25 September 2025.
In the Southern Italian region of Apulia, local companies in the agri-food sector wish to innovate but struggle to recruit specialised technicians due to emigration and an aging workforce. A selection of these companies will participate in a circular labour mobility scheme with Egypt focused on enhancing the skills of young Egyptian workers and students in the fields of green economy, digitalisation and agriculture.
