GR-v.3 Enterprise-level programme (EP) "Combating labour market exclusion"

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3.5.3.GR-v.3 Enterprise-level programme (EP) "Combating labour market exclusion"

Under this programme ESF and ERDF support is provided within the framework of the Community Support Plan for structural measures in Greece (Objective 1).

Duration of the programme: from 1.1.1994 to 31.12.1999.

The maximum value of the funding provided for this programme by the ESF and ERDF amounts to ECU 246,000,000.

The origin of the Community aid is as follows:

ESF: ECU 236,000,000;

ERDF: ECU 10,000,000.

The national authority responsible for implementing the enterprise-level programme:

Ministry of Labour and Social Security.

The aims of the enterprise-level programme are as follows:

- to counter the objective and subjective conditions, causes and mechanisms leading to exclusion from the labour market,

- to facilitate labour market access and occupational reintegration for those affected or threatened by labour market exclusion,

- to promote equality of opportunity, social cohesion and convergence,

- to fight discrimination and promote social solidarity,

- to ensure that the target groups make full use of their social and political rights and opportunities for social involvement,

- to develop skills, abilities and vocational qualifications,

- to promote job creation, and

- to reduce budget deficits.

The enterprise-level programme consists of the following five parts:

Part 1: "Labour market integration and reintegration of the disabled"

Part 1 encompasses the following areas:

1. training measures to prepare for employment,

2. training,

3. employment promotion - labour market integration,

4. accompanying measures.

Part 2: "Integration of returning emigrants"

The areas are the same as in Part 1.

Part 3: "Integration and reintegration of other social groups excluded from the labour market"

Part 3 encompasses the following areas:

1. Prisoners, ex-convicts, young offenders

2. Single parents

3. The population of remote mountain and island regions

4. Those with atypical cultural and religious characteristics

5. Drug addicts following treatment.

Part 4: "Joint infrastructure and public offices"

Part 4 encompasses the following areas:

1. Training and continuous qualification of teaching and managerial staff

2. Pilot projects

3. Raising awareness - publicity - prevention

4. Joint infrastructure and equipment.

Part 5: "Implementation"

Part 5 encompasses the following areas:

1. Preparatory activities

2. Implementation studies and field studies

3. Other forms of spending for the implementation of the programme.

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