Integrated pathways for adults working (re)integra..
Integrated pathways for adults working (re)integration
As the European labour market is becoming more and more flexible and changeable,disadvantaged people (because of old age and/or low skills and/or because expelledafter company crises) have many difficulties in maintaining access to the labour market.A “non-working phase of life” should not represent an interruption of active life, but itshould be used to develop new competences and to find new occupationalopportunities.The consortium of the “Re-Start” project, which includes 2 VET Centres, a ResearchCentre, a University and a Trade Union Organisation, aims to develop and share acommon and innovative approach for helping disadvantaged people to access again thelabour market.The project will:• compare the different approaches already available in each partner country concerningwork reintegration for those who have lost their job, through comparative studies;• develop, test and validate an integrated approach (developing innovative tools fortransition like “new experience contracts”) directed to the working reintegration of oldand low-skilled workers and draw up guidelines for testing and for an easy geographicaldiffusion;• transfer the successful results to other service providers and to decision-makersthrough local seminars, a final conference, the project website, a comprehensivepublication and mainstream the good practices through the signature of localagreements for labour policies.The main impact of the project will be to help the target group to re-enter the labourmarket through integrated transition pathways, and to have effective tools (like newexperience contracts) for reducing the time of unemployment. This will help achieve theLisbon goal for a 50% employment rate among 55-64 year olds by 2010, promote activelife for marginalized groups and reduce social assistance costs, according to theGrundtvig priority of “promoting adult learning for marginalised and disadvantagedcitizens”.
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