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3.4.3.GR-iv.3 Enterprise-level continuous training programme

Continuous training and employment promotion programme with grants from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

3.4.3.1. Aims

a) To improve the effectiveness of the training on offer by ensuring the high quality of the training programmes and teaching staff and establishing a link between training and the labour market.

b) To develop a permanent system of continuous training which will be maintained beyond the end of the current programme (1999). This aim is to be achieved by creating continuous training structures which have good prospects within enterprises after 1999.

c) To improve the vocational skills of workers in public- and private-sector enterprises, the underlying aim being to raise the productivity and strengthen the competitive position of Greek firms on European and international markets.

The enterprise-level programme consists of three parts which together reflect the above aims.

Part 1: Creating continuous training structures

Part 1 encompasses two areas:

Area 1: Creating the infrastructure required for continuous training

Area 2: Activities to promote the realisation of the enterprise-level programme

Duration: from 1994 to 1999.

Part 2: Continuous employee training

Part 2 encompasses four areas:

Area 1: Small firms

Area 2: Medium-sized firms

Area 3: Large firms

Area 4: Firms undergoing a restructuring process

Duration: from 1994 to 1999.

Part 3: Training and employment promotion for the unemployed and workers threatened with redundancy

Part 3 encompasses five areas, of which each is targeted towards a specific group of the unemployed.

Target groups of Part 3:

  • - young people aged under 25 seeking to enter the labour market or who have so far been only provisionally integrated into the labour market,
  • - women particularly hard hit by unemployment, particularly those under 25,
  • - the unemployed aged over 25, including the long-term unemployed, but excluding marginalised social groups,
  • - the unemployed from areas suffering from high unemployment who are faced with long-term unemployment due to the lack of employment opportunities in their region,
  • - workers under threat of unemployment due to planned lay-offs from firms in crisis.

    Duration: from 1994 to 1999.

    The enterprise-level programme "Continuous vocational training and employment promotion", which covers the period 1.1.1994 to 31.12.1999, encompasses a range of medium-term measures, with priority accorded to Objective No. 4 of the Community Support Plan for Greece. The maximum value of the support for this programme provided by the structural funds of the ESF and the ERDF amounts to ECU 756,000,000.

    The support provided by the EU is distributed as follows:

    ESF ECU 730,900,000;

    ERDF ECU 25,100,000.

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