Deadline- 10 December 2013
Proposals are accepted for ‘Your first EURES job’ Scheme which is an instrument to help 5 000 young people to find a work placement in other EU countries until 2014. The goal of this program is to focus on sectors and occupations with skills shortages or target groups like young people, of which ‘Your first EURES job’ is a pilot.
The total available budget for this call is EUR 5 000 000.
Objectives-
- to provide young people with access not only to jobs in other EU countries but to facilitate also the matching and placement for apprentices and trainees as a critical element to help transition from school of education to work
- to contribute to fill bottleneck vacancies with available youth workforce at EU level
- to foster workers’ freedom of movement as set out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU, Art. 45)
Eligibility & Criteria-
- must be legally established in one of the 28 Member States
- lead applicants must be public, private31 or third sector organisations with a legal profit or non-profit status; They have as their main mission the provision of general employment services to jobseekers, job changers, trainee or apprentice candidates and employers covering a variety of occupations and jobs or work-based trainings in different economic sectors
- co-applicants may have the same mission as lead applicants, or may provide complementary customer-oriented services such as information, training, career guidance, outplacement, mentoring, integration support or equivalent
- shall give their projects a meaningful EU dimension by ensuring the provision of customer-oriented information and services in at least 3 different EU Member States
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