New skills for job quality
(ROBG-178)
What’s the goal?
The project aims to implement an integrated program of measures to support employment and labor mobility in Vidin-Dolj region
What’s the budget?
704.326,47 euro, out of which 598.677,50 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead beneficiary (LB): AGORA 2013 Association (Romania)
Beneficiary 2 (B2): ECONYOUTH Association (Romania)
Beneficiary 3 (B3): Vidin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Bulgaria)
When?
Start date: 22.08.2017
End date: 21.08.2019
Duration: 24 months
Where?
Dolj in Romania
Vidin in Bulgaria
How?
- 6 training programs, language courses
- Joint study related to the cross-border mobility
- Joint databases in service of labour mobility
- 416 inactive persons benefiting from professional counseling and mediation on the labor market services
- Cross border incubators for promoting employment of staff from both sides of the border
- Exchange jobs
- Web-site with job opportunities
What will be the results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs:
- 37 initiatives (trainings, education schemes, websites, agreements, networks, job-fairs etc.) that activate workforce mobility in the cross border area;
- 416 participants in joint local employment initiatives and joint training;
- 42 participants in joint educational and training schemes to support youth employment; educational opportunities and higher and vocational education across borders;
Programme results: population that have access to joint employment initiatives – 6013.
Project status (reflected in progress reports)
The project is finalized; all the activities were implemented until 21.08.2019. The implementation had focused on addressing local population from the Vidin Dolj area through information and advertising, by disseminating data from the developed studies, through vocational counseling activities for the population, within the business incubator.
The followings outputs results have been achieved:
• 1 website promoting employment opportunities on both sides of the Danube, available at www.jobskills.ro
• 1 joint study in the cross border area Dolj Vidin to identify the key branched that activate economic employment available on the abovementioned website;
• 1 comparative study in the cross- border area Dolj-Vidin on social security, labor law, legal regulations, tax issues available on the abovementioned website;
• 10 thematic dissemination sessions provided for 300 participants, 5 DJ and 5 Vidin;
• 2 job fairs, 1 in Vidin and 1 in Isalnita;
• 416 persons participated within individual counselling;
• 40 group informative and counselling sessions;
• 20 job clubs;
• 52 training courses.
(ROBG-185)
Sommilabour
What is the goal?
| The project aims to increase employment through provision of trainings in sommelier and investing in human capital, labour mobility and integrated initiatives in wine-selling |
What’s the budget?
495.907,75 euro, out of which 421.521,57 euro ERDF
Who is doing it?
Lead beneficiary (LB): National Wine Association (Bulgaria)
Beneficiary 2 (B2): Romanian Association for Technology Transfer and Innovation (ARoTT) (Romania)
When is it happening?
Start date: 29.08.2017
End date: 28.08.2019
Duration: 24 months
Where is it happening?
Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven, Vidin, Vratsa, Ruse and Dobrich in Bulgaria (+ Sofia).
Giurgiu, Mehedinţi, Calarasi, Constanta, Dolj in Romania (+Bucharest)
How is it going to happen?
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What will be the results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 5 integrated initiatives will be implemented and will activate the workforce mobility in the cross-border area, there will be 225 participants in joint local employment initiatives and joint trainings, a 100 participants in joint educational and training schemes to support youth employment, educational opportunities and higher and vocational education will be provided across the border.
Programme results: 30.000 people that have access to joint employment initiatives.
Project status
The project has been finalized on 28.08.2019 and the following objectives have been achieved:
- A Sommelier Centre has been established, renovated, equipped and opened in Veliko Tarnovo on №14 Georgi Mamarchev str.;
- A Sommelier Phrase Book in Bulgarian-Romanian-English and the Sommelier training modules in Bulgarian and in Romanian have been elaborated and can be found on http://www.wineskills.eu/materials ;
- An e-diary with trained and qualified experts has been elaborated and can be found on http://www.wineskills.eu/ediary ;
- 258 people, out of which 112 students, have participated in 8 Sommelier and Wine-guide trainings;
- 13 Partnership agreements for cooperation with different professional high schools, associations and training centres within the CBC region, have been signed;
ROBG-188
“Collective” Education
What’s the goal?
To increase the cooperation of the relevant institutions/ organizations/key actors, making the educational system more efficient by involving them in the educational program.
What’s the budget?
1,383,306.04 euro, out of which 1,175,810.11 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead Beneficiary (LB): Eurointegra Association (Bulgaria)
Beneficiary 2 (B2): National College “Barbu Stirbei” (Romania)
Beneficiary 3 (B3): Economic College (Romania)
Beneficiary 4 (B4): Technical College “Stefan Bănulescu” (Romania)
Beneficiary 5 (B5): “Sv. Kliment Ohridski” High school of Mathematics and natural sciences - PMG “Sv. Kliment Ohridsky” (Bulgaria)
When?
Start date: 12.09.2017
End date: 31.12.2020
Duration: 39 months and 20 days
Where?
Calarasi, Romania
Silistra, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
How?
- Project management;
- Project information and promotion;
- Comparative study;
- Working meetings;
- Agreements;
- Workshops;
- High schools network;
- Pilot action.
Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 13 supported cross border mechanisms to enhance the cooperation capacity
Programme results: increase in the level of co-ordination of the public institutions in the eligible area
Project status
The project was finalized on 31.12.2020, following two operated extensions of the project implementation period in total with 15 additional months and 20 days.
The equipment and furnishings for e-class rooms, cabinet 1 and cabinet 2 were received by all the project beneficiaries.
All the project beneficiaries managed to publish books presenting all the modules developed under the project. Each module was converted in interactive lessons for each grade (9th-12th). A total of 84 lessons were developed. They are also available on http://ecoeducation.eu/en , section “Access to Collective Education”. In order to access the interactive lessons, it is required the creation of an account, followed by the login on the platform.
Comparative Study to identify the joint and particular aspects regarding the counselling and guidance classes was developed.
3 working meetings with the representatives of the project partners in order to develop a joint approach for counselling and guidance classes have been organized:
- 2 working meetings in Silistra: on 18-19.06.2018 and on 30-31.08.2018
- 1 working meeting in Calarasi on 18-19.12.2018.
7 workshops for presenting the modules, which are considered as information exchange tool, were organized in Bulgaria (3) and Romania (4) for each of the modules:
- Workshop 1 “Education for leisure” held on 24-25.01.2019 in Silistra
- Workshop 2 “Education and culture” held on 25-26.01.2019 in Silistra
- Workshop 3 “Education in Emergencies” held on 26-27.01.2019 in Silistra
- Workshop 1 - “Education for health” held on 05.03.2019 in Calarasi
- Workshop 2 - “Sexual Education” held on 06.03.2019 in Calarasi
- Workshop 3 - “Preventive Education” held on 07.03.2019 in Calarasi
- Workshop 4 - “Road safety education” held on 08.03.2019 in Calarasi.
9 agreements were signed by all the project beneficiaries with institutions from Bulgaria and Romania, as follows:
- Partnership Agreement for module "Education and Culture", with County Culture Center Calarasi and Regional Library Silistra
- Partnership Agreement for module "Education for health", with Department of Public Health from Romania and Regional Health Inspectorate from Bulgaria
- Partnership Agreement for module "Education for leisure", with County Centers for Resource and Educational Assistance from Romania and Bulgaria
- Partnership Agreement for module "Education in emergencies", with Romanian Red Cross from Calarasi and Fire Safety and Civil Protection Department Silistra
- Partnership Agreement for module "Preventive education", with Prevention, Assessment and Counselling Center from Calarasi and Bulgarian Red Cross from Bulgaria
- Partnership Agreement for module "Road safety education", with Countu Police Inspectorate (Road Unit) from Romania and Regional Directorate of Ministry of Interiro from Bulgaria
- Partnership Agreement for module "Sexual Education", with Department of Public Health from Romania and Social assistance Directorate from Bulgaria
- Partnership Agreement for the Sustainability of Project "Collective education", with Municipality of Silistra
- Partnership Agreement for the Sustainability of Project "Collective education", with County School Inspectorates from Calarasi and Silistra.
B2 - National College “Barbu Stirbei” organized pilot actions in the period 31.05.2019 - 16.10.2020; the lessons per different modules were attended by 172 students.
B3 – Economic College Calarasi organized pilot actions in the period 21.01.2020 – 10.06.2020; the lessons per different modules were attended by 133 students.
B4 - Pedagogical High School “Stefan Bănulescu” organized pilot actions in the period 13.01.2020 - 28.02.2020; the lessons per different modules were attended by 234 students.
B5 - “Sv. Kliment Ohridski” High school of Mathematics and natural sciences organized pilot actions in the period 17-24.11.2020; the lessons per different modules were attended by 144 students.
Danube Entrepreneurship (ROBG – 186)
Danube Partnership for Mobility and Entrepreneurship
What’s the goal?
| To increase the potential of independent activities and entrepreneurship to create jobs in the cross-border area |
What’s the budget?
453,967.48 euro, out of which 385,872.35 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead beneficiary: Mehedinţi Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture
Beneficiary (B2): Vidin Chamber of Commerce and Industry
When?
Start date: 18.08.2017
End date: 17.08.2019
Duration: 24 months
Where?
Vidin in Bulgaria
Mehedinţi in Romania
How?
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Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 8 initiatives that activate workforce mobility in the cross border area, 960 participants in joint local employment initiatives and joint training
Programme results: 1.060 people that have access to joint employment initiatives
Project status
The project is finalized, the followings results achieved:
- 14 training sessions, attended by 240 people in fields like: Taxation, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship/ business, Marketing, Romanian and Bulgarian Language.
- 4 job clubs with 130 participants. During the Jobs club, the entrepreneurs present in front of the participants (students and unemployed people from Bulgaria and Romania), their business and free jobs position with the requirements of the position.
- 1 network of entrepreneurs from the cross-border green economy- the network was developed by signing 54 collaborative protocols, development of 1 action plan after the consultation with the entrepreneurs acting in the green economy, 1 data base with companies acting in the green energy (58 companies from Romania and 53 from Bulgaria
- 1 cross- border green job fair was held in Vidin on 09.08.2019, with 70 participants from Romania and Bulgaria.
- the followings studies were elaborated: Study for identification of entrepreneurial needs for trainings, adapted to the cross border region’s economy and Opportunities and challenges regarding cross-border entrepreneurship, published in 1,000 copies each and distributed within the project activities in order to enable all the economic operators and the interested organizations to apply the resulting information from the cross-border area.
All activities carried out were presented on the project websites: http://www.cciamh.ro/danube-entrepreneurship/ and http://vdcci.bg/danube-partnership/.
CBPELM (ROBG-196)
Cross-border partnership for employment and labour mobility
What’s the goal?
| To encourage the integration of the cross-border area in terms of employment and labour mobility. |
What’s the budget?
451,798.14 euro, out of which 384,028.42 euroERDF
Who?
Lead beneficiary (LB): Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency – BSMEPA (Bulgaria)
Beneficiary 2 (B 2): Local Employers’ Association for Small and Middle Enterprises (LEASME) (Romania)
When?
Start date: 04.05.2017
End date: 03.05.2019
Duration: 24 months
Where?
Vidin in Bulgaria
Dolj in Romania
How?
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Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
- Programme outputs: 28 initiatives that activate workforce mobility in the cross border area;
- Programme results: more than 76,000 people will have access to joint employment initiatives.
Project status
The project was terminated.
