The project is managed by IOM Budapest, has a duration of 22
months and is funded by the European Commission.
The project’s aims are to strengthen and increase the capacity of
the existing network of Migrant Service Centers in the Western
Balkans in order to ensure efficient dissemination of information
about legal channels for migration among potential labour migrants
and to provide opportunities for return of skills and human capital
and their contribution to the development of the Western Balkans
(WB).
IOM The Hague will coordinate the Temporary and Virtual Return
component of the project and will facilitate 60 short term
assignments to the six Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). These
assignments will be carried out by qualified migrants originating
from one of the WB countries and residing within the EU (Austria,
Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United
Kingdom).
