Post on 22-Feb-2016
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2007-09 poor implementationNew strategy 2010 – Knowledge, Competence, Tools
Mobilizing and informing all relevant actorsPositive results
From 7 % to 37 % of projects with TNCHowever, low budgets, quality should improve
Program period 2007-2013
- looking back
Transnational learning networks• European Community of Practice on
Gender Mainstreaming within ESF 2013-2014
• Active Inclusion (AI)• COP on Results Based Management• Social Entrepreneurship Network (SEN)• Reinforcing policy learning for
Roma inclusion• ESF Transnational Cooperation
2014-2020• Transnational Mobility Measures for
Disadvantaged Youth and Young Adults
European Social Fund in Sweden 2014-2020
According to draft operational programme by October 2013
Swedish challenges at the labour market
• Continuing recession in the economy• Increased long-term unemployment, especially among men• High youth unemployment• The return to working life for people on sickness leave• Increased number of people with disabilities and an
impaired capacity• High unemployment and difficulties in working life
establishment for those born outside EU• Fairly low unemployment for women and men
older that 55 years but with longer periods of unemployment
Short presentation of priorities
The program shall:
• Strengthen the mecanisms of the labour market system
• Connection between the labour market and education/training
Short presentation of priorities
Priority axis 1 – Skills supply
At least 200 000 participants (employees and non-employees)
Invest in skills development and readjusment which is connected to the overall strategic development in the organisations and the position of the individual in the working life . Focus on SMEs
Short presentation of priorities
Priority axis 2 – Broaden the pathway to employment
Investing in – inter alia – the development and implementation of methods that contribute to the inclusion of those outside the labour market
Strengthening the national labour market policy
The target groups (at least 75 000 participants) are:- young people (15–24 yrs), - long-term unemploymed (more that 12 months)- people with a long period of sickness leave- newly arrived migrants, mainly women.
Short presentation of priorities
Priority axis 3 – Youth employment initiative (YEI)
Investing in the development and implementation of methods that contribute to the inclusion of young people (15-24 yrs) in the regions of Middle Norrland, Northern Middle Sweden and Southern Sweden, with a youth unemployment of at least 25 per cent.
Common points of departure for the priorities
Gender mainstreaming
Mainstreaming of the accessibility dimension regarding people with disabilities and impaired capacity
Sustainable development
Equal treatment and non-discrimination
Common points of departure for the priorities
Transnational work
Investing in solutions for challenges that have not been tackled before.
The working methods should be:- Cost efficient, - Assessable- Implementable
Investing in evaluation and cost efficiency
The programme focues on methods that are:- Assessable- Cost efficient- Implementable
Support structures for projects and thematic lobby projects can be used in all priorites
Focus on the Baltic Sea Strategy in thetransnational work
Transnational cooperation 2014-2020
• Common framework: coordinated calls, common themes/prios, two centralized calls, EC support structure, database, partner search facilities
• Flexible approach: as at present• Dual approach: A combination of the two
Sweden will probably choose the dual approach
Round table transnational cooperation in the Baltic sea region
• “The primary aim of the Round Table will be to find a common understanding, and the mechanisms needed, for implementing an improved and efficient transnational cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region within the frame of the ESF 2014 - 2020.”
• Two meetings• Managing authorities from 8 Member States
discussed preliminary themes for transnational cooperation in the region
Tentative themes1. Early School Leavers (ESL) and
NEETs; transition from school to work2. Mobility; Youth, Labour, Informal labour/Informal economy
and grey sector3. Capacity building in social economy4. De-institutionalization and restructuring in health, social and
elderly care sectors; skills development5. Support for SMEs; Capacity building, Business
environment/infrastructure6. Active inclusion; Combat poverty, Welfare systems
restructuring7. Healthy working life/well-being at work
Thank you!
Åsa LindhDirector General Swedish ESF-council
www.esf.se