Laetitia Hohwieler

Skills mobility partnerships (SMPs) are emerging as an increasingly important policy tool for addressing labour shortages, skills mismatches, and demographic pressures, while expanding legal migration opportunities and promoting skills development. Drawing on desk research and comparative analysis of 39 governmental SMPs, this study examines partnership design in the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, highlighting takeaways for states wishing to launch or refine SMPs.

Can a person who is seriously ill be returned to their country of origin, and on what evidence should that decision rest? New ICMPD research, commissioned and funded by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), examines how European courts and national authorities handle migration cases in which an applicant’s health condition is central to the outcome.

The full set of publications is available below:

• State practices related to medical COI Comparative report
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• Briefing note on national and international case law related to MedCOI
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• Briefing note on medical claims in migration processes across 23 EU+ countries
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• Annex: Country Case Studies - State practices related to medical COI
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Labour migration is a tool to address growing skills and labour shortages, widening the talent pool from which employers can recruit and enabling them to access new skills and ideas. Skills mobility partnerships (SMPs) and related concepts, including Global Skill Partnerships and Talent Partnerships, have gained momentum as a strategy to combine skills development, mobility, and mutual benefit for destination and origin countries. To explore governmental initiatives at the intersection of mobility and skills, the Link4Skills project conducted a mapping of SMPs that have been operating in the past ten years, based on desk research. This working paper presents the resulting Partnership Inventory, including a brief comparative analysis. The inventory aims to provide an overview of existing SMPs to help policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders to better understand existing government approaches.

Dieser Bericht fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der INTAKE Studie zur Arbeitsmarktintegration von geflüchteten Frauen aus der Ukraine in Österreich, Deutschland und Polen zusammen. Die Studie basiert auf einer vergleichenden Analyse der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, der Arbeitsmärkte und der Integrationssysteme in den drei genannten Ländern. Datengrundlage sind Interviews mit Expert:innen und geflüchteten Frauen, die Analyse bestehender Studien zur Arbeitsmarktintegration von Geflüchteten sowie den Integrationssystemen in den drei Ländern. Zudem wurde eine Social- Media-Analyse öffentlich zugänglicher Gruppen ukrainischer Geflüchteter auf den Plattformen Facebook und Telegram durchgeführt. Der Bericht wurde aus Mitteln des EU AMIF – Programms sowie des österreichischen Bundeskanzleramts finanziert.