European Labour Mobility

Call for Proposals on European Labour Mobility, Public Employment Services and Benchmarking.

In the framework of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, the European Call for Proposals VP/2010/010 on European Labour Mobility, Public Employment Services and Benchmarking.

The call for proposals on European Labour Mobility focuses on projects aimed at enhancing European labour mobility covering all forms of mobility, by improving the overall framework in which European labour mobility and transitions take place, involving employment services, territorial authorities and other stakeholders.
The proposed actions that will be funded in the framework of the call for proposals on European Labour Mobility should contribute to one or more of the following objectives:
-Developing and testing innovative instruments, practices and partnerships European Labour Mobility;
-Transfer or mainstreaming of existing successful innovative European labour mobility instruments, practices and partnerships;
-Community building, networking, analysis and benchmarking of methodologies and results among stakeholders involved in European, national, regional and local labour mobility programmes and activities.

The priority of the call for proposals on European Labour Mobility is directed at two groups which face special difficulties. The first one being the disadvantaged young people including low qualified and low skilled youngsters, school-leavers, young people from low income families or young people with.
The second group including young workers having difficulties to get a stable foothold in the European labour market.

The actions proposed within the call for proposals on European Labour Mobility may concern:
-Services toolkits to prepare young students for their transition from study-to-work with better knowledge of work environment requirements, CVs drafting, interviews preparation, etc.
-organisations to foster young people keeping contact with the European labour market and/or pooling offers for "first work experience", or "short-term assignment" or "apprenticeships" in locally or in foreign organisations
- Initiatives aimed at the up-skilling and integration of disadvantaged young people in the European labour market

The total available budget for the Call for proposal on European labour is of 1.200.000 euro.

The deadline for submitting proposals within Call for Proposals on European labour is 14/09/2010.

Further information on the Call for Proposals on European labour can be found on the European Commission\'s web site.