PRIORITY AXIS 2: Linking lifelong learning and labour market
PRIORITY AXIS 3: Increasing adaptability of workers and enterprises
PRIORITY AXIS 4: Modernisation of Public Employment Service
PRIORITY AXIS 5: Promoting active employment measures
PRIORITY AXIS 6: Promoting social inclusion
PRIORITY AXIS 7: Technical Assistance
PRIORITY AXIS 1 Education and training in support for growth and development of knowledge based society – Indicative operations on the following areas of intervention:
Access to education and previous quality training
- Developing and implementing tools and mechanisms to improve the pre-university education, including innovative and trans-national actions, support for providers and staff development;
- Developing and implementing quality assurance system in pre-university education, including staff development and innovative actions;
- Supporting the development of guidance and counselling in order to increase educational performances and progression rates towards higher levels of education
- Supporting the development and diversification of education and previous quality training
- Support for innovation and for developing tools and mechanisms to improve access to education and previous quality training for all
- Support for development of education for entrepreneurship and active citizenship.
Quality in higher education
- Developing and implementing tools and mechanisms to improve the university education system, including support for developing the qualifications system in higher education and innovative actions and support for providers;
- Developing and implementing quality assurance system in universities, including staff development;
- Increasing the access to university education;
- Developing the competence based university education (bachelor and master programmes);
- Supporting networking of universities, research institutes and enterprises for developing university education, promoting entrepreneurship, continuous training of researchers, incentive and career development in research.
Human resources development in education and training
- Initial and continuous training of teachers and other human resources in education and previous vocational training, including training in partnership with companies;
- Training and retraining of teachers’ trainers and trainers in continuous vocational training (CVT);
- Support for integrated programs for teachers’ mobility and reconversion towards non teaching activities;
- Support for career start and development in education.
Quality in CVT (Continuous Vocational Training)
- Development and implementation of the National Qualification Framework (NQF), including support for Sectorial Committees;
- Implementing of quality assurance and management systems in CVT at system and provider level according to the European framework for quality assurance;
- Capacity building development of institutions involved in validation of prior learning;
- Drawing-up studies and analyses in order to provide good quality information and data for supporting CVT and exchange of good practices;
- Networking and partnership development for promoting learning conductive work environments and “learning regions”.
Doctoral and post-doctoral programmes in support of research
- Strengthening the national doctoral and post-doctoral system, including support for networking universities, research centres and enterprises;
- Supporting doctoral and post-doctoral programmes by developing innovating contents, including the development of researchers managerial skills to promote the valorisation of research outputs in economic activities;
- Support for doctoral candidates and senior researchers to participate to doctoral programmes and post-doctoral research activities, including the development of trans-national cooperation and learning mobility.
PRIORITY AXIS 2: Linking lifelong learning and labour market – Indicative operations on the following areas of intervention:
Transition from school to active life
- Supporting work based learning schemes/programmes for pupils and students;
- Supporting school/university/enterprise partnerships initiatives;
- Developing and providing guidance, counselling and coaching in support for transition from school to active life;
- Monitoring of the insertion of graduates into labour market;
- Developing innovative actions in view of improving transition from school to working life.
Preventing and correcting early school leaving
- Supporting and developing programs for maintaining pupils in education and preventing early school leaving;
- Developing integrated programs/packages for increasing access and participation in primary and secondary education for pupils belonging to vulnerable groups, including financial support for their families;
- Promoting integrated services and alternative solutions for pre-school education;
- Implementing “school after school” type activities, assisted learning and remedial education;
- Reintegrating early school leavers in education (including “second chance education” programs);
- Providing integrated guidance and counselling for potential early school leavers.
Access and participation in CVT
- Providing training and retraining courses to employees;
- Providing support and incentives for employees to access CVT;
- Supporting employees to validate prior learning;
- Providing support for CVT provision at provider level and for development and diversification of CVT supply;
- Providing focused facilities for “hard to reach” individuals (unskilled and low skilled adult population);
- Supporting employers to encourage CVT participation, also through incentives;
- Supporting raising-awareness campaigns and information and career counselling;
- Developing innovation in view of CVT access, participation and further competences achievement.
PRIORITY AXIS 3: Increasing adaptability of workers and enterprises – Indicative operations on areas of intervention:
- Promoting entrepreneurial culture
- Increasing awareness of and positive attitudes towards entrepreneurial culture;
- Implementing programs and innovative services for encouraging entrepreneurship and development of entrepreneurial culture;
- Management skills training, especially for micro-enterprises and IMMs;
- Encouraging entrepreneurship through support services for pre start-up businesses
Training and support for enterprises and employees to promote adaptability
- Supporting innovative methods for flexible work organisation, including new working practices and improved working conditions;
- Providing skills training for employees to improve quality and productivity in the workplace;
- Supporting activities and measures for occupational diseases prevention, health and safety at work, as well as for a friendly work environment and for the reconciliation of work and family life;
- Promoting and supporting training of health management and medical staff;
- Information and awareness campaigns addressed to change social attitudes and stereotypes towards vulnerable groups in the working environment;
- Providing training in new technologies, including ICT, environment protection and controlling pollution;
- Promoting trans-national exchanges of experience in increasing adaptability;
- Award/quality certifications for enterprises promoting flexible organization at work and services aimed at facilitating their employees’ reconciliation of work and family life.
- Development of partnerships and encouraging initiatives for social partners and civil society
- Assistance and support to drawing up action plans for encouraging and developing partnerships;
- Identifying and implementing paths towards boosting the interest of employers and other stakeholders in increasing investments in human resources and increasing the Corporate Social Responsibility;
- Develop social partners’ internal capacity to build human resources development capability, emphasising standards and certification;
- Strengthening NGOs organisational capacity to support co-operation with local and national public authorities in order to promote joint social inclusion initiatives including development of voluntary services and charities;
- Improving capacity to support initiatives for shaping civic responsibility, through participation in public debates and to facilitate the access to public information;
- Developing initiatives to encourage networking at the national level and EU level;
- Development of advisory services for NGOs and for grass roots initiatives that promote employment and social inclusion, including social partners who activate on the labour market;
- Raising awareness campaigns and support for local and social partnerships to transform informal work in formal employment.
PRIORITY AXIS 4: Modernisation of Public Employment Service - Indicative operations on areas of intervention:
Strengthening the Public Employment Service capacity to provide employment services
- Developing and implementing innovative and trans-national actions in support of PES modernisation;
- Developing tailored assistance service and individual approach for unemployed with difficulties in integration/reintegration on the labour market;
- Development of „self-service” type services;
- Developing solutions to tackle the unregistered unemployment, especially in rural areas and for vulnerable groups;
- Developing databases related to services provided, vacancies and employers;
- Drawing up analyses, studies, researches and forecasts regarding the labour market, including the overall status of the undeclared work or informal employment;
- Broadening of quality management system;
- Improving the system of providing services of vocational training for labour force (e.g. adult vocational training centres);
- Designing and implementing adequate tools for the monitoring and evaluation of the real impact of active measures on labour market;
- Development of actions aiming at better visibility of the PES and supplied services.
Training of the PES staff
- Improving the PES staff vocational training system, including training programme models;
- Training of PES staff to provide employment and assistance services, including services to persons with special needs (Roma people, persons with disabilities, young people over 18 leaving the state childcare system, other categories of persons at risk);
- Training of the PES staff to the promotion of the “mainstreaming” culture/gender differences attention and vulnerable groups specific needs;
- Training in extensive use of modern information and communication technologies;
- Training and innovative and trans-national actions to support new forms of organisation and management;
- Developing vocational competences of staff in order to perform analyses and forecasts on labour market, planning, work activities with special groups etc.
PRIORITY AXIS 5: Promoting active employment measures - Indicative operations on areas of intervention:
Developing and implementing active employment measures
- Supporting all activities related to active labour market measures;
- Developing and implementing tailor-made action plans, providing job search assistance, guidance services and training for young and long-term unemployed, older workers, jobseekers re-entering on the labour market after a period of absence;
- Developing and implementing measures and trans-national actions for promotion of occupational and geographical mobility;
- Measures for a better match between the individual skills, education and work potential and labour market opportunities (balance and work diagnostics);
- Developing and implementing innovative methods for the promotion of the employment of the young and long-term unemployed people;
- Promoting dual systems of financing the employment of young people, combining training in vocational schools and enterprises.
Promoting long term sustainability of rural areas in terms of human resources development and employment
- Developing integrated programmes for training, employment and other supporting measures for people in rural areas, aimed at reducing subsistence agriculture;
- Developing measures for promoting occupational and geographical mobility of rural labour force in order to take up all existing employment opportunities and to increase the regional cohesion;
- Developing measures for improving the environment in rural areas and the health condition of the rural population, aiming at increasing its motivation, availability and opportunity to participate on the labour market;
- Supporting for dependent family members, assistance services and other associated activities that enable the individual to participate in the labour market;
- Promoting programmes that support and encourage business start-up in non-agriculture activities.
PRIORITY AXIS 6: Promoting social inclusion - Indicative operations on areas of intervention:
Developing social economy
- Developing the necessary tools and mechanisms to fully implement the concept of social economy;
- Promoting employability and adaptability of low skilled people, disabled people and people at risk of social exclusion in the social economy entities;
- Supporting partnerships between all the stakeholders involved in community development (trade unions, public institutions, employers’ organisations, workers, non-governmental sector, enterprises, business environment, other associations etc.)
- Raising awareness, promotion of advice and information services and exchange of experience in the field of social economy;
- Developing adequate tools and methods for delivering social services; providing, developing and establishing flexible and alternative services to look after children and/or other dependent family members during the day;
- Developing training programmes for the professionals involved in the social services system (social workers, personal assistants, community nurses, family mediators, sanitary mediators, maternal assistants, care givers, staff from residential institutions).
Improving the access and participation of vulnerable groups on the labour market
- Developing specific programmes, including incentives for employers, on the (re)integration on the labour market for vulnerable groups, particularly for Roma population, disabled persons and youths over 18 years old who leave the child state protection system;
- Training programmes for development of the basic skills and qualifications for vulnerable groups;
- Accompanying measures to take up and maintain employment (support for dependent family members, assistance services and other associated activities that enable the individual to participate in the labour market);
- Special support for the development of new protected jobs in enterprises.
Promoting equal opportunities on the labour market
- Training and retraining programmes to increase women skills and qualifications;
- Specific programmes addressed to women interested for advancing in career, including support for pre-start-up business;
- Raising awareness campaigns and exchange of good practices in schools and enterprises on non-stereotypes gender role, including campaigns for women, especially for those in rural areas and those belonging to groups with special needs;
- Supporting programmes focused on eliminating gender stereotypes in society especially by mass-media;
- Providing support and awareness campaigns on promoting health culture, fighting against trafficking of human beings, domestic violence etc.
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Trans-national initiatives on inclusive labour market
- Supporting trans-national initiatives and partnerships at European level aiming to develop human resources and create an inclusive labour market;
- Developing joint programmes for promoting employment;
- Developing new methods for combating discrimination and inequalities on the labour market;
- Setting-up partnerships for sharing experiences on adaptation of vocational training to new technologies;
- Promoting transfer of expertise on inclusion and employment of the long-term unemployed;
- Trans-national exchanges of experience and good practices for Managing Authority
- and Intermediate Bodies;
- Developing comparative trans-national studies.
- Drawing up reports, background studies and research relevant to the programme’s implementation and for the preparation of the next programming exercise;
- Support the SOP HRD implementation (including project preparation and development), monitoring and control, evaluation (ex-ante, on-going, ex-post, strategic, thematic);
- Support to SOP HRD Monitoring Committee mainly for organisation and logistics;
- Training provided to the MA SOP HRD and IBs staff related to the specific activities;
- Expenditures on salaries of staff and experts involved in tasks connected to preparation, selection, appraisal, monitoring control and audit of the programme;
- Strengthening and improving of the technical resources and the equipment used by the staff involved in tasks connected with preparation, selection, appraisal, monitoring control and audit of the programme;
- Procurement, installation and maintenance of IT (other than SMIS) and office equipment required for the management and implementation of the programme;
- Support to MA SOP HRD and IBs for the integration and simplification of the systems.
- Communication and information: elaboration of the Communication Plan, setting up a website, issuing and distributing information;
- Elaboration and dissemination of promotional and educational materials related to the SOP HRD, organising conferences, training, road-shows, workshops, in particular on “best practices”, for the general public as well as for social partners, civil society and potential beneficiaries.
PRIORITY AXIS 7: Technical Assistance - Indicative operations on areas of intervention:
Support for SOP HRD implementation, overall management and evaluation
Support for SOP HRD promotion and communication