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As the result of the project qualified performer level ofemployment must rise, namely, demand for ESF projectapplications’ executors, int. al. for typical womenpositions: secretaries, specialists in document drawingup, accountancy and calculation, must come in sight inLatvian provinces. By this medium by the result ofproject’s activity in long period of time particularly forprovince women employment opportunities must grow.The project envisages continuing E-education,directed towards EU fund digestion, for provinceinhabitants in their places of adobe. In this mannergender equality is more strengthen, as province women,taking into consideration their lifestyle (housekeepingconnected with farming, insufficiency of junior childreneducational establishments), have problems in improvingtheir professional knowledge in fulltime studies far awayfrom their places of adobe.INVESTMENT IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTProvinces’ involving in digestion of ESF resourcesand execution of ESF projects directly stimulate regionaldevelopment.Preparing specialists for ESF activities’ execution,project will form people in provinces who can take partin European Unions’ joint actions for regionaldevelopment upon the bottom of regional planningdocuments that determine development priorities andsupport the set of particular measures. By these mediumsproject also makes a relevant contribution in regionaldevelopment.DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATIONALSOCIETYProject involves trainees in information technologiesand web usage in their daily work and prepares them fornew digestion of computer usage. Project prescribesrealization of learning process by using informationaltechnologies, wherewith project activity itself stimulatesinformational society’s formation in state provinces.Usage of informational technologies rouses interestdirectly in young people, in this manner directly youngpeople are involved both in project’s direct activities, andinformational society’s formation.DESCRIPTION OF CURRENT CONDITIONIn Republic of Latvia applications for ESF projectsfor state institutions usually prepare special people, whoeither digest methods of project drawing up self-taught,attending, for example, ESF announced projectcompetition seminars about particular activities, orexternal project drawing up specialists.There are just few serious courses, such as organizedby the Ministry of Education and Science projectmanager courses about EU funds, it projects and projectapplication drawing up. These courses take place in Rigaand because of high participation fee are financiallybeneficial only for big organizations, such as leadinghigh education institutions, to prepare specialists for ESFstate program support.In Riga and biggest cities project application drawingup can be digested by consulting with more sophisticatedproject penners, as well as with representatives ofagencies responsible for particular activities. Forinstance, for activity 3.2.4.2 it is Agency for VocationalEducation Development (http://www.piaa.gov.lv). Suchconsultations could be both in presence and by postalcourses like e-mail. In provinces it is possible to consultpractically with PIAA employees only using e-mail.Thinking about first project application for peoplewithout any special knowledge frequent and informalconsulting, which can be possible mainly in Riga, isnecessary. Just mentioned partly explains big amount ofproject application from Riga and rather small amount ofproject application from provinces. To motivate provinceorganizations and inhabitants to participate in EU funds’project competitions and other activities serious workwith dormant people, who are interested in it, isnecessary. Suitable form for this work is furthereducational courses in provinces. There are a lot ofcontinuing education programs offered in Latvia.Principally those programs envisage:• Full-time training;• Extramural teaching, where trainee receives teachingmaterials;• Few distance learning courses, where traineereceives teaching aids by post or e-mail.No one of offered training forms fully satisfy potentialproject applicants’ and executors’ requirements. It is dueto following reasons:• Fulltime further education courses are organized inRiga and cities, thus it is difficult for provinceinhabitants to attend courses because of theirimmobile lifestyle. Moreover, attending a coursewith several days of business trip obligates potentialsubmitter to prepare project application, but people,at least psychologically, are not ready for it;• Extramural and E-courses usually organize furthereducation in concrete narrow professionspecializations, for example, method of organizingexamination tests in 9th form, prescribing thatparticipants already are specialists in concretereviewed area;• Further education programs usually are developedfor long time. In the case of EU fund activities it isAnnual Proceedings of Vidzeme University College “ICTE in Regional Development”, 200688