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Home>Project Description
Work Programme Throughout Europe statistics show a decline in small local
economies that have failed to meet new demands on the labour market. The trend
has been that the main sector of employment ceases to provide the community
with the needed possibilities of employment, while the community is ill
prepared to identify and set up new employment opportunities in a different
sector. By surveying the communities it has become apparent that radical
changes have to occur if they are not to stay put as communities of
unemployment and social decline with the inevitable social exclusion of the
unemployed.
The situation has created acute need for support and counselling among the
inhabitants. Help in restoring their self-esteem and in learning new skills is
imperative. The primary goal of the project is to minimize helplessness,
restore self-esteem and create new competencies, which the communities are in
bad need of, such as language skills, computer skills and other skills required
in today’s labour market. Those new skills will facilitate mobility within the
labour market. The latest information technology will be used for the purpose
as well as group therapy and personal counselling. The core target-group, in
each of the participating communities, would be of 50 unemployed people with
limited educational background and the secondary target group would consist of
100 employed inhabitants in need of new skills in order to facilitate mobility
within the labour market.
Our main objective is to re-educate and increase the employability of the inhabitants of rural communities resisting decline. The project uses innovative, flexible communication technologies to readapt declining communities to the information age and constant change. Not only is information technology used to promote life-long learning among individuals or organisations but also to lead to the emergence of a Learning Community, providing at the same time, teachers and trainers with opportunities to develop and experiment with new teaching material and methods. |