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Övergripande mål
§ att få en mer jämlik och mindre diskriminerande arbetsmarknad§ att vi påverkar strukturer och attityder
§ att upplevd hälsa skall öka hos projektets målgrupper
§ att målgruppens delaktighet och empowerment skall öka
§ att jämställdheten mellan kvinnor och män skall öka
§ att spridning av erfarenheter och systempåverkan (mainstreaming) skall ske
§ att mångfalden skall öka§ att vi tar tillvara andras erfarenheter och kunskaper
§ att vi delar med oss av egna erfarenheter och kunskaper
§ att erfarenheter från forskning tas till vara från andra länder
§ att vi delar med oss av erfarenheter från svensk forskning
§ att vi lär oss mer om andra länders individer, arbetsliv, samhällsstruktur
§ att vi samverkar mer med övriga Europa
§ att vi tar del av erfarenheter om övergången skola – arbetsliv i andra länder
§ att den Europeiska sysselsättningsstrategins mål uppnås
Delmål: organisationsnivå:
· att diskriminerande attityder påverkas på arbetsmarknaden
· att tydliggöra, informera och sprida information om vilka målgrupper som arbetar med vad
· att utveckla flera studie och arbetslivsalternativ för gymnasieungdomar
· att utbildningsnämnderna i Västerås, Sala och Köping får en analys av resultatet av ”Liv och Hälsa”
· att skolan formulerar en specificerad värdegrund för den enskilda skolan
· att lärare, elever, skolhälsovård, pedagoger, studie-yrkesvalslärare tillsammans formulerar handlingsplaner som visar hur skolan arbetar mot diskriminerande ohälsa
· att kommunen upprättar Hälsokonsekvensbeskrivningar och Välfärdsbokslut Individnivå:
· att fler elever klarar gymnasiet med godkända betyg alternativt får likvärdig kunskap
· att sjukskrivningstalen minskar hos yngre arbetsförmedlare och i andra målgrupper
· att kunskapen till att göra hälsosamma val ökar i målgrupperna
· att ohälsa på grund av diskriminering minskar· att jämställdheten ökar mellan kvinnor och män· att jämlikheten i hälsa ökar mellan kvinnor och män och grupper

Innovation

Budget Action 2

1 500 000 – 2 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Empowerment

 With beneficiaries

 Between national partners

N.C.

Transnationality

 Linguistic skills

• svenska
• English
• Deutsch

 Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

• 20.0%

 Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Background

 Involvment in previous EU programmes

• Nobody involved in A&E

National Partners

Agreement Summary

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The transnational partners’ common interest is to improve young people’s employability, by supporting and strengthening the co-operation between education, enterprise and social system. The agreement therefore aims to:
1) limit and/or prevent the problem of dropping-out featuring all geographical areas involved;
2) improve the employment of young people who have problems with the access to the labour market
3) support better integration between school and/or university on the one hand and enterprise and social system on the other
4) support integration of educational products to optimise the offer;
5) support the development of future oriented competencies
The issues falling under these aims are created to strengthen Europe’s ability to meet sustainable development objectives which are fully described in the Lisbon’s strategy and the European Youth Initiative as well as in the United Nations Decade on “Education for Sustainability”. Within the stated aims different European partners can contribute on their rich diversity to socio-economic sustainability, by improving young people’s work abilities and opportunities. This work will be mostly done on their regional socio-economic models and come to the EU market by exchanging, spreading and disseminating information as well as results. On the other hand, the initiative will contribute to building a knowledge-based society, by increasing the human capital in terms of better education and skills.
The issue of sustainable regional development therefore represents another main interest for transnational partners, who will outline a framework of socio-economic sustainability to be implemented at regional level by relevant players and to represent a product for the mainstreaming.
Methodology
Although all transnational partners deal with similar issues within national programmes, the aspects in focus are different. Each DP will therefore bring different contributions in terms of actions implemented at national level and results to share, which are nonetheless complementary – each representing a segment of a more complex model that will be outlined and defined through indicators and submitted to regional players’ evaluation.
Transnational methodology will favour exchange and comparison of information and results. Case studies, educational offers, best practices, models of educational integration will be some of the items of this activity. Each DP will contribute to the activity, according to what is produced within the national programmes.
On the other hand, all DPs will deal with guidance and integration of educational offer as well as integration of systems (education-enterprise-welfare/assistance). To do this, they will transfer knowledge, adapting methodologies and instruments, develop approaches that are innovative in terms of know-how and competencies needed as well as tools to use. Partners will therefore develop parallel innovative approaches whose methodology and results will be shared and will contribute to the joint implementation of a framework on sustainability.
Since the transnational partnership is rather large, the TCA could also include “bilateral” actions, to allow some DPs to go deeper in some topics that may not interest the whole group.
Exchange of players will also be considered strategic for further development of the relationship between organizations and European areas.
Underlying problem
Each European region involved in the project has different economic features, but they all suffer from high dropping-out rates in school and high rate of young people with difficulties to access labour market. All DPs also highlighted the need to strengthen the relationship of educational, economic and social systems, to improve young people’s employability. Closer co-operation between schools, universities and enterprises is fundamental to fill a gap that all partners have noticed in their regional contexts: On the one hand enterprises need specific job profiles to manage their processes, on the other hand schools offer profiles that no longer correspond to those needed. As a result of this gap in some of the considered European regions, young people cannot find suitable jobs and consequently leave their region either to look for better work opportunities or to achieve qualifications and competencies that meet the requirements of enterprises. In the long run, the local labour market will get poorer in competencies and regional development slows down.
The transnational partnership will tackle school and university dropping out as well as “brain drain” in required cases to prevent the problem and reduce youth unemployment. As a result, sustainable regional development can be fostered by focusing the attention of labour and educational policy measures on young people’s unemployment. Targeted people will mostly be aged 15-24, but there will also be over 24. These will either be university students that do not achieve their degree in the foreseen number of years, or unemployed young people that need to improve their competencies to have better chances in the labour market.

Västmanlands kommunförbund

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Arbetsförmedlingen i Köping

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Arbetsförmedlingen i Sala

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Arbetsförmedlingen i Västerås

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Köpings Kommun

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Sala Kommun

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Västerås Stad

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Västerås stift

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Drop-in

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