# European Refugee Fund

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The '''European Refugee Fund''' ('''ERF''') was a scheme designed to facilitate the sharing of the financial costs of the reception, integration and [voluntary repatriation](/source/voluntary_repatriation) of [refugees](/source/refugees) amongst [European Union](/source/European_Union) member states.<ref name=UNHCR>{{cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c305.html|title=European Refugee Fund|publisher=UNHCR|accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> All EU member states apart from Denmark participated in the ERF.<ref name=Commission>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/financing/fundings/migration-asylum-borders/refugee-fund/index_en.htm|title=Refugee Fund|publisher=European Commission|accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> The Fund financed both national and transnational projects, including providing skills and language training to refugees, improvements to reception facilities and [refugee resettlement](/source/third_country_resettlement) or relocation operations. The ERF was allocated €630 million in funding over the period 2008–13.<ref name=Commission/> It was set up in 2000, replacing previous ad hoc funding measures.<ref>{{cite book|title=EU Justice and Home Affairs Law|first=Steve|last=Peers|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|edition=3rd|page=124|isbn=978-0199604906|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0YlF7X1mlgC&dq=European%20Refugee%20Fund%20replaced&pg=PA124}}</ref> In April 2014, the ERF, along with the European Integration Fund and the European Return Fund, was replaced by the [Asylum Migration and Integration Fund](/source/Asylum_Migration_and_Integration_Fund) (AMIF) established for the period 2014–20.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ecre.org/component/content/article/70-weekly-bulletin-articles/1064-ecre-publish-note-on-the-asylum-migration-and-integration-fund.html|title=ECRE publishes note on the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund|publisher=European Council on Refugees and Exiles|date=29 May 2015|accessdate=21 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906121202/http://ecre.org/component/content/article/70-weekly-bulletin-articles/1064-ecre-publish-note-on-the-asylum-migration-and-integration-fund.html|archive-date=6 September 2015}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [Asylum Migration and Integration Fund](/source/Asylum_Migration_and_Integration_Fund)

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