EQUAL Community Initiative

Community Initiatives are special programmes devised by the European Union to find new solutions to specific problems affecting the whole of the EU. Each Community Initiative is financed by one of the EU Structural Funds.

The EQUAL community Initiative is funded by the ESF and aims to fight discrimination and inequality in the labour market by improving access to employment and training opportunities for people who are unemployed, or vulnerable to unemployment. Maintaining best practice from EQUAL into a wider policy arena is a key objective of the Programme.

Under EQUAL, an ESF contribution of €34.5 million will be invested in Ireland in the period 2000-2006. There are two funding periods. The first funding period (end 2001 to mid 2005) provided support to 21 Development Partnerships (project promoters) in Ireland. The second round of EQUAL funding in Ireland runs from January 2005 to the end of 2007 and will support 22 Development Partnerships over that period. A full list of these Development Partnerships is available on the Equal Website which can be accessed by clicking the link below.

EQUAL comprises three strands:

  • Strand A: Tackling discrimination and inequalities linked to the labour market.
  •  Strand B: Networking projects at national level to enable information exchanges and the dissemination of best practices.
  •  Strand C: Joint work by the Commission and Member States to learn the lessons of good practice and take into account in policy development the priorities to be implemented through the EQUAL Initiative

EQUAL IDEAS BANK

www.ideasbank-equal.info

The ideas Bank is a webased innovation centre containing products developed by Irish Round 1 projects. The products are categorisied in terms of a number of policy themes, these include: Equality and Diversity (In the Workplace) and (In Service Provision), Migrant Workers, Work Life Balance, Entrepreneurship and Life Long Learining.

EQUAL Community Initiative - www.equal-ci.ie

 

 
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