SAGE (ROBG-157)
“Society for All Ages
What’s the goal?
To reduce occupational incompatibility of supply and demand of jobs, due to the precarious level of the education, as a hinder factor for mobility of labour and to correlate the supply and demand of rural work force amid an accentuated process of aging population.
What’s the budget?
400.230,95 euro, out of which 340.196,31 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead Beneficiary (LB): Crucea commune Hall (Romania)
Beneficiary 2 (B2): Mihail Kogalniceanu commune Hall (Romania)
Beneficiary 3 (B3): Silistea Commune Hall (Romania)
Beneficiary 4 (B4): Youth Organization for European Silistra(YOES) (Bulgaria)
When?
Start date: 04.04.2017
End date: 03.10.2018
Duration: 18 months
Where?
Constanta in Romania
Silistra in Bulgaria
How?
- project management;
- information & publicity campaign;
- project identity campaign;
- Training Center;
- development of a Strategy for employment of labor force and social inclusion in rural areas;
- development of vocational trainings along with foreign languages and IT trainings;
- 2 Cooperation Agreements between Labour Agencies in the partner regions;
- creating a web-based resources network among the stakeholders;
- 2 study visits;
- 2 joint promotional events for the action partners and target group
What(what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 15 types of initiatives that activate workforce mobility in the cross border area; 180 participants in joint local employment initiatives and joint training
Programme results: 20.762 persons will have access to joint employment initiatives
Project status
The project is finalised. The beneficiaries established a target group of 180 active-age persons from Crucea, Silistea and Mihail Kogalniceanu Communes in Romania and Aydemir village in Bulgaria to take part in the Professional training programme envisaged in the project. Three training centres were set up in Crucea, Silistea and Mihail Kogalniceanu communes.
The Professional training programme, including vocational training courses for At-home caregiver and personal assistant for the disabled, as well as IT and foreign language training was conducted in both Bulgaria and Romania in the period September 2017 - April 2018. As a result 120 persons obtained professional qualification certificates for “At-home caregiver” and 60 persons for “Personal Assistant for the disabled”. 161 of those also graduated the IT and foreign language courses.
4 training workshops were organised in Crucea, Silistea, Mihail Kogalniceanu and Aydemir Silistra in February, during which a survey (interviews and questionnaires) was conducted among the entire target group of the project (180 trainees), needed for the development of the Cross-border Strategy for employment of labour force and social inclusion in rural areas.
A website and web platform SAGE ONLINE were developed and are available at http://societyforallages.ro/.
The project partners concluded cooperation agreements with Bulgaria`s National Agency for Employment and Constanta County Agency for Employment, designed to strengthen the cooperation in the field of labor force, in particular in the rural areas, and set up the SAGE Network Technical Secretariat for supporting the development of further cooperation and employment initiatives.
2 Study visits were conducted in the period July – August 2018 LB in Silistra and in Constanta county, which allowed the SAGE graduates to meet social workers and representative of public institutions from the other country and exchange experience.
2 conferences (regional and local) were organised in September 2018 in Constanta and Silistra in view of bringing together relevant actors and stakeholders in the social care field and the SAGE graduates and disseminate the project results.
