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13/12/2018

Social Innovation Declaration can contribute to the implementation of the social innovation agenda in ESF+

The recently adopted Social Innovation Declaration states that innovation should benefit everyone and calls on the next EU budget to support social innovation...

07/12/2018

ESF projects are changing social relations, but capacity building is needed

The final event of the Social Innovation Community (SIC) project, funded within Horizon 2020, took place on 12-13 November 2018 in Seville. The ESF Transnational Platform’s Aleksandra Kowalska...

26/11/2018

Supporting transitions from education to employment and within the labour market

Transitions – from school to work, to parenthood or towards retirement, are a central part of life. A workshop at the ESF Technical Platform seminar in June detailed the picture Europe-wide, and proposed how best to manage these changes with the help of the European Social Fund (ESF...

21/11/2018

Transnationality, the EU’s best product?

Transnationality and partnership were the two buzzwords at the June 2018 seminar, identified as fundamental and essential to ensure the European Social Fund (ESF) delivers on what it has promised.

Various stakeholders in the ESF spoke up on the value of...

19/11/2018

ESF stakeholders give ESF+ a warm welcome

The European Social Fund (ESF) is to become ESF+ in 2021 through the merger of five different funds. Speakers and participants at the ESF...

16/11/2018

New dossiers on systems thinking, profiling and partnership

The ESF Thematic Networks are in their ‘performing’ phase. Some of their work has been distilled into three new Technical Dossiers.

Dossier 5 – Systems Thinking for European Structural and Investment Funds Management – Guide to...

16/10/2018

Link ESF to LIFE programme to boost results

Paying more attention to the circular economy and following in the footsteps of the LIFE programme can only bring a win-win situation for the ESF, said William Neale, Adviser on Circular Economy and Growth at DG Environment at the ESF Technical Platform seminar in June....

11/10/2018

Showcase ESF project benefits, says former Commissioner

We should make the case for the European Social Fund (ESF) by highlighting examples of its beneficial impact on employment and social cohesion, said László Andor, Commissioner for Employment from 2010 to 2014, in his keynote speech at the ESF Transnational Platform seminar in June....

02/10/2018

Stop Building Fences. In conversation with Obada Otabashi

In a new ESF Transnational Platform video, Thematic Expert Rachel Marangozov interviews a young Syrian who arrived in Belgium in 2015, to hear his opinion on what European policy-makers can do to help migrant entrepreneurs.

In the two-minute video, we hear how...

02/10/2018

Polish hotel helps young care-leavers find independence

Following a visit in 2018, the ESF Youth Employment Thematic Network produced an animated video about the So Stay hotel in Gdańsk, a work integration enterprise employing young care-leavers. 

So Sta...

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