EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme financial support for recruitment from Europe

Contact a EURES adviser for more information on the terms and process of applying for the support. You can find your local EURES adviser with the Search for EURES Advisers tool and contact them by email or phone.

The support is available to an employer or company with a maximum of 250 employees that

• is recruiting a person permanently residing in another EU country, Norway or Iceland
• provides an orientation programme for employees arriving in the country.

To receive the support, the employee to be recruited must be

• 18 years or older
• a citizen and resident of an EU country, Norway or Iceland. The employee may also be a long-term resident of an EU country, Norway or Iceland. A long-term resident means a person who has lived in the country of application continuously for five years and fulfils the additional requirements defined in Directive 2003/109/EC
• looking for a job in a country other than their country of residence.

In addition, the recruited employee may not return to work in their home country or in a country where they have previously lived, studied or worked.

Employment conditions:

• The length of the employment relationship must be at least 6 months or 3–6 months in the case of a traineeship.
• The working hours must be at least 50% of full-time work.
• The position has been advertised as a vacancy, published and open to jobseekers.
• The terms of employment must comply with national labour and social security laws and ensure fair wages and working conditions, such as collective agreements or minimum wage.
• A written agreement has been drawn up on the employment relationship, specifying the duration of employment, working hours, rights and obligations, pay and social security.
• The employment relationship may also be a work-based traineeship. To receive the support for a traineeship, the employer and the traineeship must meet the European quality requirements.

The support is not available for employment relationships

• in European institutions and bodies or other international political, economic, social and scientific organisations or supranational regulatory bodies and their agencies. This also applies to EEA networks, platforms, lobby groups and other similar organisations whose budgetary resources depend exclusively or mainly on EU funding
• in sales and telemarketing
• in companies with high staff turnover, one or more days of unpaid trial work/training before employment or which offer only commission with no fixed pay
• in which the work is based in one country but carried out in another
• as a nanny or au pair.