Best practices - sample ESF projects

1. Second chance – education of adults
   Country: Ireland
   “Vocational Training Opportunity Scheme” is a constant support and individual approach to long-term unemployed persons as a result of insufficient education. The Scheme succeeded in its pilot edition. Now, it is implemented throughout Ireland.
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2. Recreating Constructing
   Country: England
   A new campaign – Women Building London – overcomes barriers which women have so far encountered at building and repair sites. It will allow 1400 women gain skills and experience in such crafts as plumbing, carpentry, painting and repair of rooms.
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3. The Navarra Region – Training for Business
   Country: Spain
   There are certain skills which are elementary in almost every workplace – ability to communicate, quality management, computer legibility. Those key issues are quite often missing in companies’ training plans. Association for Business and Social Economy (ANEL) of the Spanish region of Navarra prepared training modules which allow upgrading and developing those skills.
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4. Professional support of the disabled
   Country: Spain
   Providing the disabled with an opportunity to participate fully in the social and economic life is one of the priorities of the regional policy in the region of Murcia in Spain. A six-year plan, co-financed from the European Social Fund, allows the implementation of the plan.
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5. Job rotation as an opportunity for professional career of the employees of local authorities
   Country: Sweden
   An innovative job rotation programme, implemented in Halland in Sweden, provides opportunities for professional development to existing employees and creates temporary workplaces for the unemployed.
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6. Return to employment of long-term unemployed persons
   Country: Sweden
   Individual career plans and professional counselling helped 75 persons return to the labour market after a long period of unemployment or sickness. A project under a simple name “work” opens new perspectives in a region of Sweden known for a high unemployment. Nordanstig is one of the least densely populated communes of Sweden. In this region, where unemployment is high and population decreases, large distances between groups of people are an additional difficulty in job finding.
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7. Old and new approach to fighting unemployment – co-operation
   Country: Finland
   Traditional methods of directing the unemployed back to the labour market have not always been successful, both in the case of the long-term unemployed and persons already starting to look for a job. The Juva commune in south-eastern Finland crated a new model of supporting the unemployed, based on service networks for clients.
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8. Building bridges between science and industry
   Country: Italy
   Much appreciated additional complementary master studies in the field of conducting research for industry have been started in Italy. It takes 18 months to complete the studies which provide an opportunity to use research skills in a real working environment.
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