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History
The project was based on a French model. The Ministry of Employment and Solidarity of
the Republic of France and the Hungarian ministry signed an agreement of cooperation in
2002 and agreed on the adaptation of the French practice.
The project was launched on the 1st of January 2004 and finished on the 31st of
December 2006, but the preparation had started in 2003.
At that time labour centres in Hungary operated at county-level more or less separated
from one another. The novelty of the project was that the labour centres of the three
counties joined together to carry out this programme. So that was the first significant
project at regional level and since than the labour institutions has been working on regional
basis.
The project was managed by the three South-Transdanubian labour centres (Somogy-
Tolna-, Baranya County Labour Centre) and the Regional Training Centre of Pécs. The
Training Centre was responsible for the professional development.
As for the financial resources, 50 % was submitted by the labour centres and 50 % was
provided by the state budget of the Labour Market Fund.
Objectives
The objective of the program was to create jobs by supporting the creation of new services,
aimed at the provision of personal services or performance of activities fulfilling the
interests and needs of the community, for which demands have already been registered but
could not yet been fulfilled on a market basis, owing to a lack of stable demands and paying
customers.
Long term objectives were:
− To ensure professional perspectives for the programme participants.
− To establish economic independence and sustainability by providing stable
demand paying customers and tendering for the new services.
− To create new jobs and professions by introducing new services
Short term objectives
− To involve 100 young people aged 16-30 in the project from the South-
Transdanubian Region.
− To establish new services and activities based on the needs of the local
communities in the following sectors:
− social sector
− tourism
− environmental protection, environmental management
− regional development
The target group was those young unemployed people aged 16-30 who completed their
secondary studies or who are university or collage graduates.
We granted priority for those who:
− lived in less developed settlements,
− had been registered as unemployed for more than 6 month.
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