EUROPEAN EQUAL INITIATIVE

The EQUAL Community Initiative, promoted by the European Social Fund, supports the European Employment Strategy and allows for experimentation around new forms of preventing and combating unemployment and for the development of human resources, and for fostering equal opportunities for all and access to the work market. The period of application of the Initiative is from 2001 to 2006.

Fundamental Principles
The projects developed under the protection of this Initiative shall contemplate the following basic principles:

  • Transnational Cooperation: the primary distinctive trait and integral part of the reglamentary definition. The projects shall count with at least one partner from another member state of the EU to be able to sign a Transnational Cooperation Agreement.

  • European Dimension: the project must assure the cooperation amongst member states of the EU, her social interlocutors and the European Commission to exploit good practices which are developed. A phase of Action 3 is foreseen.

  • Innovation: understood as the testing in a territory of methods and experiences tried in other programs; application of existing plans and methodologies for the first time with regards to different collectives; creation of new methodologies related with exclusion of the labor market.

  • Concentration: of the actions in thematic areas, chosen by each country.

  • Institutional Cooperation: the working model proposed requires the cooperation amongst institutions of differing levels that formalize their agreements, constituting Development Partnerships.

  • Integrated Focus: to contribute new solutions a package of solutions must be proposed which can be applied across different collectives.

All of the projects must incorporate the application of the principle of equal opportunities between women and men.


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