::
"New employment and partnership opportunities within
the Mesta border region " Project ::
The
"New employment and partnership opportunities within
the Mesta border region" project to
create effective opportunities for reducing unemployment and
undertake successful training of unemployed specialists with
university degrees in the Mesta border region to help them
access the labour
market. Specific objects are to improve professional skills
of 20 unemployed specialists with university degrees through
obtaining of new knowledge and practical experience and to
build their capacity to develop and manage projects on EU
Funds which will help them to find appropriate jobs in the
region and support municipalities to develop good projects
to resolve key social and economic problems and achieve sustainable
economic and social development by attracting local, national
and EU resources.
The
project target groups are unemployed specialists with university
degree registered in local Labour Offices in Gotse Delchev
and Razlog and young specialists without experience from municipal
administrations within the Mesta Region who need to obtain
Manager Qualification and to build their capacity to utilize
EU Funds.
The
beneficiaries under the project were trained and acquired
professional qualification Economist Manager. The training
program included common Computer literacy and Presentation
skills, Business Communications, Marketing, Management
and Finance, Project Development, Bulgarian Operational
Programmes for absorption of EU Structural Funds, Cooperation
and Public Private Partnership Development.
As
closing event of the project there was organized a Forum
on "Local Capacity Development for effective utilization
of EU Structural Funds". The 20 young people presented
their 8 municipal proposals to demonstrate their ideas
for the future in the region and the knowledge and skills
they have obtained for one-year training in the Business
Incubator-Gotse Delchev. The proposals aim to resolve
local community's problems or use opportunities for development.
Projects are infrastructural such as a regional airport,
diversification of agricultural sector and forestry, Human
resources development in the tourism sector and providing
social services for disadvantaged children and encouraging
children creativity by involving them in theatre and art
activities.
Results:
-
15 unemployed with higher education and 5 specialists
with insufficient experience are included in the training
courses
- training with 6 modules is implemented, with general
duration 960 hours, as each module finishes with test.
The modules computer literacy and English are for unemployed
persons.
- 98% graduate the complete training course
- 3 trainees successfully graduate practical training
in Greece
- Developed
14 project conceptions
- Developed 7 municipal project applications
- 50% of the trainees are hired based of the obtained
qualification till the finish of the project
labour
market. Specific objects are to improve professional skills
of 20 unemployed specialists with university degrees through
obtaining of new knowledge and practical experience and to
build their capacity to develop and manage projects on EU
Funds which will help them to find appropriate jobs in the
region and support municipalities to develop good projects
to resolve key social and economic problems and achieve sustainable
economic and social development by attracting local, national
and EU resources. 
The
beneficiaries under the project were trained and acquired
professional qualification Economist Manager. The training
program included common Computer literacy and Presentation
skills, Business Communications, Marketing, Management
and Finance, Project Development, Bulgarian Operational
Programmes for absorption of EU Structural Funds, Cooperation
and Public Private Partnership Development. 