EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS) Sweden makes it easier to move and work in EU.
To take part in TMS Sweden, you must first contact a EURES Adviser to get mobility services such as:
- Job search help.
- Job matching and contact with potential employers.
- Preparation for job interview, taking up a job abroad etc.
- Information on labour market and living conditions in various EU countries.
- Information about TMS Sweden and its conditions.
Contact information for EURES Advisers from all EU/EEA countries can be found on the EURES portal via Search for EURES Advisers (europa.eu).
If you fulfil certain conditions you can apply for financial support as a contribution to your costs connected to a job interview, relocation to new country of work, family relocation, language training, recognition of qualifications and supplementary trip allowance.
During the application process TMS Sweden contacts both involved EURES adviser and recruiting employer. No financial support can be granted until we receive written answers from them.
Please note, there is no legal entitlement to receive financial support. Applications can be rejected if the eligibility criteria are not met.
Basic conditions for jobseekers
- 18 years or older.
- Citizen and resident of an EU country, Norway, or Iceland.
- Or have a status as “EU long-term resident” in an EU country (Denmark and Ireland not included).
(To achieve this status, third-country nationals must have lived in the EU country where they apply for an uninterrupted period of five years and fulfil some further requirements, as defined in Directive 2003/109/EC). - Looking for work in other country than your country of residence (must be a mobility taking place with a change of country of residence).
- Be in contact with a EURES Adviser and receive mobility services.
- Not be moving back to work in country of origin, or country where you have previously, at some point, been resident, i.e., lived/worked/studied, so called return mobility.
Eligible work placements
- Minimum 6 months employment (3-6 months for traineeships).
- Working hours must be at least 50 percent of full-time work.
- Must be publicly advertised as a job vacancy, published and open to several workers to apply for (transparency).
- Must comply with national labour and social protection laws and ensure fair wages and work conditions, such as collective agreements or minimum wage.
- Must ensure a salary and a written contract specifying the duration of the employment, working time, rights and obligations, remuneration and social security provisions.
- Can also be a work-based traineeship.
(Traineeships under TMS Sweden should comply with the European Quality Framework for Traineeships (QFT) and be managed by the project partners: Allianssi Youth Exchanges, Better Business international (BBi) or IFOA. Please contact one of them for more information about traineeship.)
Non-eligible work placements
- Placements with European institutions and bodies and other international policy, economic, social, and scientific organisations as well as supra-national regulatory bodies and their agencies. Applies also to EEA networks, platforms, lobbies, or other similar organisations when their budget resources depend exclusively or mainly on EU funding.
- Placements within sales and telemarketing, businesses with high staff turnover or with one or more days of unpaid trial work/training before employment or which offers only commission with no fixed wages.
- Placements with employment in one country and actual work in another country (so called posted worker).
- Work-based training offers whose completion is a mandatory requirement to access a profession in specific sectors (e.g. medicine, architecture, law, aircraft industry).
- Free-lance or self-employed.
- Internships and apprenticeships.
- Babysitter, au pair or nanny.
For more information and the application forms please contact [email protected].
More information:
EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme - Arbetsförmedlingen (arbetsformedlingen.se)
