Structural Funds Unit
Structural Funds unit mediates European Union’s Structural Funds assistance in the areas of labour market and education- counsels applicants, makes decisions about grants, administers support, provides oversight and participates in designing legal acts and instructions concerning EU Structural Funds assistance.
The structural unit was established in 2003 and it is the largest unit at the foundation, employing 30 people at the moment. The unit comprises 3 teams: Lifelong Learning team, Labour Market team and Education team. In addition, there is a close cooperation with several other specialists of the foundation.
In 2004-2006 Foundation Innove coordinated 1,1 billion EEK of EU Structural Funds support.
From the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) measure 4.3 „Modernisation of infrastructure for vocational and higher education” 10 VET colleges, 4 professional higher education institutions, 5 guidance centres and 7 youth centres were supported. In total, 66 different projects were supported.
Veriora Youth Centre
Within the European Social Fund measure1.1 „Educational system supporting the flexibility and employability of the labour force and providing opportunities of lifelong learning for all” 6 open calls for projects were announced and 201 projects in total were supported.
Allocated EU assistance was successful, almost all projects fulfilled their project plans and reached the expected objectives, the designated finances were paid out. By the end of the period the percentage of the support used was 100,02% in the European Social Fund and 99,83% in the European Regional Development Fund.
In the period 2007-2013 Foundation Innove coordinates the Structural Funds assistance in the areas of education and working life within the Operational Programme for Human Resource Development and Operational Programme for the Development of the Living
Environment, over 6 billion EEK in total.
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