Blue Carpet Initiative
INITIATIVEHuman Capital, Skills & Talent Mobility
The initiative is a comprehensive package to attract and retain highly skilled talent, combining entrepreneurship education via the EIT and an academic career framework rewarding commercialisation; harmonised stock-option treatment; a recommendation to remove tax obstacles for remote cross-border employees; and a Fair Labour Mobility Package with social-security clarity and a Skills Portability Initiative. It adds an EU Visa Strategy leveraging the Students & Researchers and Blue Card Directives, fast-track permits for founders, Blue Card promotion, pilot Multipurpose Legal Gateway Offices, and “train-to-hire” Talent Partnerships. Complementary measures will review integration and family-reunification support and enhance EURAXESS services.