The BE-Relieve Ukraine intervention supports Ukraine’s Build Back Better ambitions and EU accession perspective, with a focus on infrastructure and energy, health and social protection, and skills and employment. The skills and employment component prioritises investments in training infrastructure, the transformation of VET institutions into Centers of Vocational Excellence (CoVE), and the improvement of employment ratios and company productivity through Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) measures.

These measures are implemented through a competitive ALMP Facility (ALPMF), which strengthens labour market mechanisms and supports the transition from unemployment and inactivity to employment, and from suboptimal productivity to optimal productivity. The facility operates through competitive Calls for Proposals (CfPs), ensuring responsiveness to the evolving needs of the labour market and that funding goes to the most impactful proposals, while fostering partnerships between private sector companies or business membership organisations, civil society actors, and labour market actors such as training providers.

 

Jobs for the future are occupations and skills sets expected to develop and/or remain in high demand and resilient amid economic, technological, and societal transitions.

In the European Union accession context, these professions are key to prepare the Ukrainian labour market and economy for the Competitiveness Agenda, the European Green Deal, and the twin transition—green and digital—by fostering innovation, sustainability, and strategic autonomy. These jobs will a.o. support climate neutrality by 2050, energy security, and inclusive growth, as outlined in the EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap and Clean Industrial Deal.

Aligned with Building Back Better principles in Ukraine, they also emphasize resilience and sustainability in recovery strategies, linked to a.o. reconstruction and modernization efforts.

From a TVET standpoint, these jobs require adaptable technical and transversal skills, lifelong learning, and strong cooperation between education systems and industry to meet evolving labour market needs. Preparing for these jobs ensures competitiveness, social fairness, and resilience.

The general objective of this Call for Proposals is to prepare the Ukrainian Labour market for technological and economic innovations, through a frontloading of new skills sets. The specific objective is providing employers with a labour force that gained new skills related to technological evolutions and new job profiles.

Download attachments to this call and read them carefully.

To apply, you should register by clicking on Register (at the top-right of this page) or sign in if you already have a Submit.com account. Once you have registered (or signed in) you can enter the application form by clicking on the ‘apply’ button on the right.

Before completing the form, we invite you to first read the applicant guidelines very carefully as they contain important and useful information which will guide you and increase the chances of your proposal being selected.

Whilst filling in the application form, you will be asked to both fill-in an online form and upload documents. Templates are provided within the webform. You can confirm your answer and navigate between the different pages by using the 'next' and 'back' buttons at the bottom of each page. 

Your draft webform will automatically be saved all along the process, so you can leave the application form at any time and return afterwards. Attention! Once you have submitted your application, it can't be modified anymore.

The Call for Proposals is organised in two phases. All applicants should submit a concept note with all necessary annexes in accordance with the instructions stipulated in the guidelines. Please be advised that our review process is highly selective and rigorous. We therefore recommend you to read our guidelines very carefully and to make sure you provide the best information possible in the application form.

ATTENTION: Please note that it will not be possible to submit your application after the deadline. We strongly advise you not to wait until the last day or the last minute, and to anticipate possible power cuts, variations in the quality of the Internet connection, bad weather preventing you from reaching areas to send your application, etc.