  Knowledge of the stellar content near the Sun is important for a broad range
of topics ranging from the search for planets to the study of Milky Way
structure. The most powerful method for identifying potentially nearby stars is
proper motion (PM) surveys. All old optical surveys avoid, or are at least
substantially incomplete, near the Galactic plane. The depth and breadth of the
"Vista Variables in Via Lactea" (VVV) near-IR survey significantly improves
this situation. Taking advantage of the VVV survey database, we have measured
PMs in the densest regions of the MW bulge and southern plane in order to
complete the census of nearby objects. We have developed a custom PM pipeline
based on VVV catalogues from the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU), by
comparing the first epoch of JHKs with the multi-epoch Ks-bands acquired later.
Taking advantage of the large time baseline between the 2MASS and the VVV
observations, we also obtained 2MASS-VVV PMs. We present a near-IR proper
motion catalogue for the whole area of the VVV survey, which includes 3003
moving stellar sources. All of these have been visually inspected and are real
PM objects. Our catalogue is in very good agreement with the proper motion data
supplied in IR catalogues outside the densest zone of the MW. The majority of
the PM objects in our catalogue are nearby M-dwarfs, as expected. This new
database allow us to identify 57 common proper motion binary candidates, among
which are two new systems within ~30pc of the Sun.
