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o Recognitionofqualificationsthroughthesettingupof6supportofficesinuniversities;o Training courses, support for local consortia, reception andintegration activities, training activities and awareness initiativesand public awareness campaigns in the scope of POPH reachingabout40,020peopleby2010;o Programmefortheinterventionofeveryoneinthelabourmarkettargeting unemployed immigrants reaching roughly 38,500 in2008‐2010• PursuitoftheModernisationofthePublicEmploymentService.Theaimistoboostworkinstrumentsthatcanleadtoamoreeffectiveservicefromtheperspective of raising diversity, accessibility and quality of the channels ofservices rendered in the employment area; emphasis goes to: (a) IEFP NETEmployment project that includes various valences, notably: the electronickiosks, a multi channel contact centre, SMS services, electronic applicationservice,amongothers;(b)theManagementandInformationSystemfortheEmployment Area (SIGAE); and (c) the Intervention programme withEmployers from the perspective of enhancing the relations between thePublicEmploymentServiceandcompanies.5.3. FOSTERING THE BALANCE BETWEEN FLEXIBILITY AND SECURITY IN THELABOURMARKETANDIMPROVINGWORKINGCONDITIONSContextTheTripartiteAgreementforanewSystemfortheRegulationofLabourRelations,ofEmploymentPoliciesandSocialProtectioninPortugalrefersthatthemostcurrentdiagnosesofthelabourmarketgenerallyindicatefivemaincharacteristics:(1)thelimited adaptability of companies and workers; (2) the weakness and the lack ofdynamisms in collective work contracting; (3) the formal rigidity of the legalframeworkofthelabourmarkets;(4)theineffectivenessoftheregulatorynormsofthelabourmarketandthe(5)highpercentageofatypicaljobsinemploymentasawholeassociatedtotheintensesegmentationofthelabourmarket.IntheambitoftheTripartiteAgreement,thesignatoriesunderstandthatinordertoovercomethemainproblemsofthelabourmarket,theremustbeareformoftheCodeofLabourinforceaswellastheadoptionofmeasuresinthefieldofactiveemploymentandsocialprotectionpolicies.TheDraftLaw,approvedintheCouncilofMinisters, is framed in a broader strategy of reforms that covers variousindispensable instruments for a new sustainable articulation between economicgrowth, improved business competitiveness, increased productivity, thedevelopment of quality employment, the reduction of inequality of opportunities,upgrading of labour relations and a more equitable sharing of the results ofeconomicprogress.62