The TMS project

EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS)
promotes professional mobility in Europe

EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (EURES TMS) promotes the capacity to attract labour demand and facilitate job placements, by allowing and supporting employers to post vacancies directly on the project platform system, simplifying the process of advertising vacancies, establishing direct links with employers and sectoral associations in different EU Countries, spreading on line recruitment systems, attracting SMEs willing to recruit from other Member States and filling hard-to-fill vacancies.

EURES TMS is aimed at enhancing the match between labour demand and job offers /vacancies in all EU Member States plus Norway and Iceland, fostering fair and voluntary circulation of workers and addressing labour market mismatch and skills shortage.

EURES TMS 2025 – 2027 is financed under the Employment and Social Innovation (“EaSI”) strand of the ESF+, a European-level financing instrument managed directly by the European Commission. It provides financial support to achieve high employment levels, fair social protection, a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, as well as inclusive and cohesive societies aiming to eradicate poverty.

EURES is a European cooperation network of employment services, launched in 1994 to facilitate the free movement of workers and covering all EU countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

Key pillars of EURES policy

Fairness and voluntariness are key pillars of EURES policy, in accordance with the European Pillar of Social Rights (that sets out key principles and rights essential for fair and well-functioning labour markets).
The action will combine tailor-made recruitment, matching, training and placement services with financial support.

Project action targets

The target groups who can benefit from the EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS) support are candidates over 18 and employer. Placement activities should target a range of sectors. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) or equivalent organisations can also receive financial support.

Conditions for participating in the TMS activities:

Candidates

All candidates wishing to find a job, traineeship or apprenticeship in an EU Member State, Iceland or Norway other than their country of residence, who are:

● aged at least 18

● nationals and legally resident of any of the EU Member States, Iceland and Norway, although temporary living in a Third country

● holder of an EC residence permit (Directive 2003/109). N.B. This Directive does not apply to Denmark, Ireland, Norway and Iceland.
All candidates in compliance with that definition are eligible, irrespective of their level of qualification, work/training experience or economic and social background – so long as they comply with the labour law requirements of the recruiting country and the vacancy specifications.

Employer

Employer are all businesses or other organisations legally established in the EU Member States or the EFTA/EEA countries in accordance with the EEA agreement (Iceland and Norway), irrespective of the economic sector, with a particular focus on SMEs.
Large-sized companies which do not fall within the definition of SMEs as well as employment services, acting as employers, (e.g. temporary work agencies, recruitment agencies, irrespective of the size of the organisations) can also participate in the EURES TMS scheme as potential employers, but without any funding support.