Priority axis "Good-quality and long working life"
In the priority axis "Good-quality and long working life" programmes and open calls for projects are carried out:
- Increasing availability of qualified labour force
- Improving the quality of working life
-Welfare measures supporting inclusion to the labour market
- Health awareness
- Promotion of gender equality
The intermediate body (coordinating development of the abovementioned policies, designing the programmes, legal framework etc.) for the priority axis “Good-quality and long working life” is the Ministry of Social Affairs.
Three open calls for proposals took place in the labour market axis in 2009. In the first open
call of the new period „Increasing the availability of qualified labour force“ it was possible to allocate 150 million EEK. 119 applications were submitted to Innove, 32 of which grants were given. The second call for proposals in the same measure was closed on November 30th. In total, 198 project proposals competed for 200 million EEK, the best 49 of them got the funding.
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The volume of the call „Active labour market measures supporting welfare measures” was 25 million EEK. In total, 74 proposals were submitted, the funding was granted for 13. The main objective of the projects receiving the grant was to offer integrated guidance services to help personswith a care obligation to take part in employment (including services targeted to persons with an obligation to care for the elderly, disabled and disabled children).
In the first half of 2010, a call for proposals, designated for employers’ and employees’ organizations „Improving the quality of working life,“ took place, in which activities concerning the publication and introduction of information materials on collective bargaining and new labour law are supported. 13 proposals compete for the 6 million EEK support from the European Social Fund. The receivers of the grant will be announced in July.
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