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New Ways to Work 2000European Teleworkii)iii)iv)ICTs for job opportunities, e.g. call centres, teleworkingICTs in the delivery of services like health, education, public administration, etc.ICTs and networking, when used as a internal or external communication tool.2.3.2 The EQUAL InitiativeThe two main community initiatives of the ESF which dealt (amongst other things) with telework issuesADAPT and EMPLOYMENT are now nearing completion to be replaced in 2000 by a new Communityinitiative called EQUAL. The European Union contribution to EQUAL will be provided through the EuropeanSocial Fund to the tune of € 2847 million over the 2000 – 2006 period. These contributions will need to bematched by national funding.The initiatives ADAPT and EMPLOYMENT (Horizon, Integra, Now and Youthstart) have resulted in a largeresource of 'hands on' experience and expertise. Potential EQUAL partners wishing to draw on these resourceswhen developing their own proposals will be directed to a new web-site 14 which covers the transitional period(2000 and 2001) during which the ADAPT and Employment initiatives ramps down and EQUAL ramps up.The European Commission , in consultation with the European Parliament, Member States, and the socialpartners has set nine themes for the first call for EQUAL proposals. Eight are linked directly to the EuropeanEmployment Strategy. The ninth covers the specific needs of asylum seekers. Overall, the aim of the thematicapproach is to explore new ways of tackling the problems common to different types of discrimination andinequality, rather than focusing on a specific target group.Each Member State will choose the themes within which it wishes to explore and test new ideas in cooperationwith other Member States. National calls for proposals will set out the themes under which potentialDevelopment Partnerships can apply for EQUAL funding. The specific issue of telework is likely to be linkedto priorities 3, 6 and 7 which correspond to entrepreneurship, adaptability and equal opportunities measuresof the European Employment Strategy previously discussed.The nine thematic priorities in EQUALEmployability1 Facilitating access and return to the labour market for those who have difficulty in being integratedor re-integrated into a labour market which must be open to all2 Combating racism and xenophobia in relation to the labour marketEntrepreneurship3 Opening up the business creation process to all by providing the tools required for setting up inbusiness and for the identification and exploitation of new possibilities for creating employment inurban and rural areas4 Strengthening the social economy (the third sector), in particular the services of interest to thecommunity, with a focus on improving the quality of jobsAdaptability5 Promoting lifelong learning and inclusive work practices which encourage the recruitment andretention of those suffering discrimination and inequality in connection with the labour market6 Supporting the adaptability of firms and employees to structural economic change and the use ofinformation technology and other new technologies14 http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/equal/index_en.htm- 18 -
New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkEqual Opportunities for women and men7 Reconciling family and professional life, as well as the re-integration of men and women who haveleft the labour market, by developing more flexible and effective forms of work organisation andsupport services8 Reducing gender gaps and supporting job desegregation.Asylum seekers9 Helping the integration of asylum-seekers.Depending on the official status of the asylum seeker - an extremely complex area, with variationsbetween Member States - assistance may be for new ways of helping to access the labour market, orto provide training for unsuccessful asylum seekers prior to their leaving the country.The EQUAL guidelines have been published in May 2000 (see the web site already referenced fordownloading). Each Member State will next prepare a programme (called a Community Initiative Programme)outlining the way it intends to implement the initiative. These programmes, including the detailed criteria forthe selection of "Development Partnerships", is next agreed with the European Commission. The first call forproposals under EQUAL can be expected within the first quarter of 2001.2.3.3 Article 10 (ERDF)In terms of inter-regional cohesion in Europe, recent statistics indicate that the least-favoured regions are facedby a "technology gap" twice as great as the differences measured by income per head. In line with the prioritiesof Article 10 approved for the 1995-1999 period, innovative measures aimed at developing new ways ofintroducing innovation in the regional development agenda of the less favoured regions of the European Unionhave been introduced. These include "increasing awareness in SMEs from less favoured regions about researchand technological development activities" and, more generally, about the regional economic implications oftechnological change, as suggested by the Regional Commission of the European Parliament.One of the priority areas for pilot actions under Article 10 of the ERDF and Article 6 of the ESF for the 1995-1999 period is the translation of the Information Society concept into real life in the regions throughdemonstration of innovative applications and services, i.e. Regional Information Society Initiatives (RISI).RISI has two elements:a) RISI 1 - the development of a regional partnership in the elaboration of a regional Information Societystrategy and action plan andb) RISI 2 - preparation and launch of pluri-regional pilot applications for demonstrating best practice anddeveloping know-how in the regional deployment of the Information Society.The Information Society is revolutionising the ways in which we work and live together. For the regions ofEurope, their future economic and social well being will depend to a large extent on how they are able toparticipate in the Information Society in the making. This pilot action therefore aims to help regions benefitfrom the opportunities now opening up to them and to minimise the risks of being left behind in this revolution.The overall policy in the Information Society Strand of Article 10 is to pursue an active learning strategy bothwithin a region and between regions. This will take place through the stimulation, experimentation, evaluationand diffusion of best practice in the creation of the necessary socio-economic conditions for the developmentand implementation of teleworking, SME networking and other Information Society services and applicationswhich will in turn contribute to regional economic development, in particular in the less favoured regions(LFRs) of the European Union.- 19 -
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