Romania – Sectoral Programme for Human Resources Development 2007 – 2013
SANSA “From unemployed to entrepreneurs? You can! Innovation in Public Employment Services and in labour force: consultancy and support to Public Employment Services (SPO) in the Center and West, and in development of new services for entrepreneurship
IFOA is partner, together with Obiettivo Lavoro, Consorzio OMNIACOM and, among Romanian partners, the two Regional Employment Agencies of Alba Iulia and Caras, directly referring to thee Ministry of Labour, and Tobimar construct, of project SANSA (in Romanian: chance).
The project, approved by the Management Authority of the ESF in Romania, fits into a perspective of reforming and updating national performance level of employment services to European standards. The project also aims at developing innovative services for people however excluded from the labour market.
Officially started in June 2011, SANSA finds its primary goal in identifying and promoting a set of innovative services, to be offered by Regional Employment Agencies and targeted to enhancing self-entrepreneurship as a key to personal career development.
The project is implemented in three different nearby regions, in order to establish a permanent structure, as a reference for future development at a national scale.
IFOA co-operates in transferring organisational models and tools for promotion of self-employment, that already proved their efficacy on our territory, as well as at a national and European level.
The operation therefore comes as a true transfer of best practices developed in Italy, either through hosting personnel of the Romanian Public Employment Services in a study tour here (during the tour training sessions, guided visits to local PES and bodies promoting entrepreneurship are delivered) and through devising specific papers. Among these, a comparative guide to Italian and Romanian laws governing Employment Services.
SANSA is a three-year project, and will finish in may 2014.
Romanian Ministry of Labour – PON Human Resources 2007-2013
COMPROF – Development of Professional competences of Employment Services
Development of a proactive attitude on the part of the Public Employment Service towards people searching for a job, through the increase of professional skills and awareness of the culture of service. Main activities are: definition of standards of employment services; training of trainers; case studies and study visits to best practices in Europe; thematic workshops; seminars to disseminate best practices identified and visited; identification of professional profiles and skills assessment of employees of the Employment Services; training and updating of competences.
Project value: 1.000.000 €
Duration: 03/2009-03/2012
ESF 2000 – 2006 : POR Abruzzo Region
Study Visits for Abruzzo Region civil servants
Service of organization of study visits to meet excellence experiences and organizations, active in employment policies, education and training. Visits were organised as part of a learning process, to understand contexts in which best practices were born and grown. Strengths, weaknesses, success factors were explored and, eventually, a process of recontextualisation to the Abruzzo Region was carried out, to analyse and assess transferable aspects. The project achieved also the creation of a common, coordinated path for the various Employment Centres and for the Abruzzo Region. Twenty visits were organised and carried out, of which 2 abroad, involving 44 managers and civil servants of the Abruzzo Region and its Provinces.
Value: 316.000
Duration: 2007-2008
ESF 2000 – 2006: Art. 6, Innovative Actions
ACTING – Active Ageing for Competencies Transfer and Training
Development and testing of methodologies and practices with the aim to preserve, enhance and transfer the heritage of professional competences of older workers within the enterprises; to promote seniors’ adaptability and employability by their re-qualification on new and innovative competencies; to raise the awareness of the potential of older workers and of the policies on active ageing by institutional and socio-economic actors.
Single Italian project selected by the European Commission as a best practice at the “1st Forum on the demographic future of Europe”, in Brussels on 30-31 October 2006.
Value: 1.130.000 €
Period: 2005-2007
ESF 2000 – 2006: Art. 6, Innovative Actions
EUROPROFILES – Certification of pan-European profiles in the Information Society
Development of innovative ICT training paths, certifiable at European level, with the participation of the largest companies in the sector (IBM, Cisco, Nokia, Wind, Microsoft, Alcatel), trade unions (Assinform, CGIL Training and Research Federation), transnational partnerships (France, Great Britain), and other institutional partners including the Lombardy Region. In 2004 this project was considered a European “good practice” by many bodies including CEDEFOP, ISFOL, etc.
Value: 910.000 €
Period: 2001–2003