ICMPD and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) started a two-year pilot initiative to contribute to the development of skills and employment opportunities in partner and EU countries through migration and mobility-based skills partnerships that benefit migrants, countries of origin and destination. The INSPIRE project (December 2021-November 2023) constitute BMZ and ICMPD’s joint response to the lack of a dedicated platform for dialogue on skills partnerships designed to engage and raise awareness of available partnership instruments as well as offer the chance to harness the development potential of the newly launched Talent Partnerships.  

As a cross-regional Private Sector Engagement initiative, INSPIRE is set to develop and promote partnership schemes between EU Member States and partner countries from the Eastern Partnership region, Western Balkans and Africa. 

The project holds at its main focus partnerships that build, further strengthen and match the green and digital skills needed by partner countries, Europe and their private sector actors in target industries through mobility and migration. Concretely, the INSPIRE project will bring together competent national authorities, partner countries’ Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), European SMEs, industry groups, and financial institutions from the EU and the target countries into a dialogue on skills partnerships.

Inspire will be officially launched in the presence of key stakeholders in Vienna on 1 March 2022.

More information about the project can be found here and here.