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project info
Start date: 1 December 2015
End date: 31 December 2022
funding
Fund: European Social Fund (ESF)
Total budget: 51 479 670,00 €
EU contribution: 26 254 631,70 € (51%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: Nemzetgazdasági Minisztérium

The way to the labour market

The flagship project VEKOP 8.1.1 Towards a path to the labour market announced in the framework of the Competitive Central Hungary Operational Programme aims to improve the employability of jobseekers and inactive people aged over 25, in particular those with low educational qualifications, to support their open labour market placement, to improve the efficiency of labour market instruments and to facilitate the transition from public employment to the competitive sector for those public workers who are able and willing to work in the competitive sector. The project will contribute to increasing open labour market employment and meeting the labour needs of the economy by providing tailor-made employment support tools (e.g. targeted labour market training, labour market services, temporary support for employment costs) and by improving the availability, quality and efficiency of labour market services for jobseekers and employers. At least 10 017 registered jobseekers and inactive people will be included in the flagship programme. 33 % of the enlisted, with 3 303 of the ISCED 1-2 graduates. At the time of exit from the project, more than 49 % of the participants will be employed, 4 966 employees. Upon leaving the project, at least 50 % of the ISCED 1-2 graduates, 1 652 will obtain a qualification. 6 months after leaving the project, 30 % of those involved will be employed, with 3 006 employees (including the self-employed). Through the development, modernisation of labour market services and organisational development elements, the NFSZ will be able to better facilitate the integration and reintegration of the unemployed into the labour market and the management of labour market transitions. The flagship project will ensure access to EURES services in all counties. Target groups of the labour market part of the priority project based on the call for design: — Registered jobseekers and inactive persons aged 25-64 — public employees who are in the competitive sector with the help of wage subsidies and labour market services provided under the project — Jobseekers aged 25-30 — jobseekers with low educational attainment (ISCED 1-2) — jobseekers returning to the labour market after childcare or care for a relative — jobseekers over 50 — leaving public employment — are registered as long-term jobseekers (at least 6 months). The share of priority target groups should reach 50 % of all participants. Presentation of the technical content of the project The content of the project and the nature of the activities can be divided into two parts. Most of the activities planned under the project, and thus the vast majority of the costs, are directed towards the implementation of a labour market programme to help the target group reach the open labour market. Another part of the project, which is closely linked to the labour market programme, aims to make the services provided by the Public Employment Services accessible, improve the quality and efficiency of the services and strengthen the targeting of services and support through the profiling system. In the 2007-2013 period, service and organisational development and labour market programmes were implemented through separate projects. Experience has shown that this has made it very difficult to translate developments into day-to-day practice and to adapt the content of the developments to practical needs. Therefore, in the 2014-2020 period, developments are carried out within the same framework as the labour market programmes. In order to ensure the availability of services, it is necessary to include in the organisational development elements the possibility to finance general labour market services and professional activities available to all jobseekers, including those who will not participate in the labour market programme. Typically, these activities include the proper functioning of the profiling system, the provision of the necessary professional capacities, the development of individual development plans, job search and placement (including EURES services) and the provision of information on the labour market. We also plan to provide personalised services to participants within the labour market programme. The detailed content of the activities planned under the priority project, the justification of the priority project and its alignment with EU and domestic policy objectives are set out in detail in the feasibility study and the attached annexes.

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