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The Member States and European Union regions have access to the European Social Fund within a seven year programming period.
In order to benefit from ESF assistance, the Member States elaborate operational programmes which are implemented by socio-economic actors, such as education institutions, training providers, SMEs, chambers of commerce and industry, social partners, NGOs, public institutions, local authorities s.o. The Sectoral Operational Programme for Human Resources Development 2007-2013 has been elaborated in a large partnership process. These consultations have pursued the following aspects: - Obtaining the partners agreement for establishing the priority objectives for development;
- Ensuring transparency in the elaboration process;
- Increasing the level of commitment and involvement of partners.
For the elaboration of SOP HRD 2007-2013 the National Development Plan 2007-2013 and the National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013 were taken into account, these documents having already integrated the objectives of all relevant documents in the field of human resources development. Which are the SOP HRD objectives?The general objective of SOP HRD is the development of human capital and increasing competitiveness, by linking education and lifelong learning with the labour market and ensuring increased opportunities for future participation on a modern, flexible and inclusive labour market for 1,650,000 people. The specific objectives of SOP HRD are the following: Promoting good quality initial and continuous education and training, including higher education and research; Promoting entrepreneurial culture and improving quality and productivity at work; Facilitating the young people and long term unemployed insertion on the labour market; Developing a modern, flexible, inclusive labour market; Promoting (re)insertion on the labour market of inactive people, including in rural areas; Improving public employment services; Facilitating access to education and to the labour market for the vulnerable groups.
What does SOPHRD comprise ?
The Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development comprises the following sections: The analysis of the current situation in the field of education, employment, social inclusion and health. The chapter comprises an analysis of different areas related to human resources development, reflected in specific indicators, also with a focus on the experience achieved through Phare programmes within the pre-accession financial assistance of the European Union; The strategy, which highlights the priority axes and the key areas of intervention supported by European Social Fund. At the same time, the strategy envisages the means through which other Operational Programmes will support human resources development, in a complementary manner, avoiding the eventual overlaps; The implementation mechanism; The financial plan, which establishes the financial allocations for each priority axis and key area of intervention, during the entire programming period 2007-2013, as well as on each year.
Which are the priority axes of SOP HRD?
7 fields of activity are financed through SOP HRD, also known as “Priority Axes”. Each of these priority axes is split in several sub-domains, also known as “Key Areas of Intervention”.
The SOP HRD Strategy comprises 6 priority axes and one priority axis for technical assistance, as follows:
Priority Axis 1 Education and training in support for growth and development of a knowledge based society This axis envisages the modernization of education and training systems through development of specific instruments and standards at system level and education and training providers level, creating conditions for development of flexible lifelong learning pathways, development of educational and training offers in accordance with the labour market demands, ensuring the quality for all the educational levels by improving the professional competences of the teaching staff, trainers and researchers. Innovative actions and doctoral and post-doctoral programmes will be sustained for the support of competitiveness and economic growth, in order to develop a knowledge based society. Priority Axis 2 Linking life long learning and labour market
Priority Axis 2 finances activities aiming at facilitating transition from school to active life by developing integrated programmes for career guidance and counselling and by supporting partnerships between schools, universities and enterprises; preventing and correcting early school leaving phenomenon by developing integrated programs for preventing school drop-outs, encouraging school participation and reintegrating early school leavers in education; increasing access and participation in continuous vocational training through diversification of CVT programmes and supporting employees participation to such programmes. Priority Axis 3 Increasing adaptability of workers and enterprises
Priority Axis 3 aims at promoting entrepreneurial culture as an important factor for increasing economic competitiveness through training actions in order to provide the basic management knowledge for the people willing to start a business, improving managerial skills for small and medium enterprises, qualification and assistance for the employers working in sectors affected by economic restructurings. Also, the SOPHRD will finance actions aiming at increasing adaptability of enterprises, in particular of SMEs, but also the adaptability of workers, regarding the changes appeared as a result of the modern technologies and new organisational solutions on a large scale. The development of partnerships will be sustained and initiatives for the social partners and civil society will be encouraged. Priority Axis 4 Modernizing the public employment service
The modernization of the National Agency for Employment will be envisaged at national level, in order to improve the quality of public employment service and to diversify the employment services provided, making them more visible and accessible for the beneficiaries –unemployed persons, job seekers, employers.
Actions financed through SOP HRD under this key area of intervention will aim at: ensuring greater transparency of the employment and training opportunities at national and local level in order to facilitate geographical and occupational mobility; a better anticipation of labour market needs, including deficiencies and bottlenecks on the labour market; an appropriate management of labour force migration. Priority Axis 5: Promoting active employment measures Priority Axis 5 provides measures to motivate the reintegration of the inactive persons on the labour market, to provide assistance and counselling, to promote the geographical and occupational mobility and to eliminate the economically inactive periods.
The projects to be launched will promote the active measures on the labour market for young unemployed persons and for the long term unemployed persons as well as: training, services for job mediation, professional guidance and counselling including the development of entrepreneurial competences.
In this context, innovative schemes to stimulate young and long term unemployed persons will be promoted and accompanying measures to facilitate the insertion and retention as long as possible on the labour market will be encouraged. Regarding the rural area population involved in the subsistence agriculture, SOP HRD aims at attracting this category in the non-agricultural sector (tourism, services, constructions, other industry braches) for which integrated programs will be provided to raise awareness on the employment opportunities from other sectors, training, career counselling and guidance, work placement s.o. Priority Axis 6: Promoting social inclusion Priority Axis 6 envisages operations aiming at increasing the social inclusion, preventing the exclusion from the labour market and supporting disadvantaged vulnerable groups regarding access to education and on the labour market. SOP HRD will finance projects set on promoting the social economy, as a measure for social inclusion of those who have difficulties in finding a job (roma population, persons with disabilities, young people over 18 years old who leave the state childcare system, ex-offenders s.o.). Also, developing integrated social services and training the staff of social assistance system will be supported. Measures aiming at ensuring equal opportunities between women and men will be promoted and trans-national initiatives in all areas will be encouraged. Priority Axis 7: Technical Assistance Priority Axis 7 finances actions for supporting the Managing Authority for the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development and the Intermediate Bodies in the programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as to inform the beneficiaries about the fields which could be financed from ESF. What is the Framework Document for the Implementation of SOP HRD? The Framework Document for the Implementation of SOP HRD, elaborated by MA SOP HRD, is the programming document which detaliates SOP HRD and contains the information necessary for its implementation and monitoring as well as the information regarding potential beneficiaries, general rules of eligibility and selection of projects and beneficiaries.
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