The Community initiative EQUAL is a tool of European Strategy for the Employment that is financed by the European Social Fund and aims in experimental application and distribution of new ways of fighting of discriminations and inequality in the sector of employment. The initiative EQUAL completes the experiences that were acquired in the frames of previous Initiatives EMPLOYMENT & ADAPT and supplements the existing policies for the equality of occasions in the job market.
The project Women Employment and Local Economy in Aegean has been designed to support a horizontal approach in the policies and the services to which multiple categories of people excluded or threatened from exclusion from the job market will have access and it faces the fragmentation and the lack of co-ordination of applied policies. It has been structured on nine thematic fields – measures that concern the cultural and environmental heritage of islands of Northern Aegean.
The individual objectives of the project are :
- The improvement of employability through the facilitation of access and return in the job market of people that are discriminated and fighting of racism and xenophobia in their marketplace.
- The growth of enterprising spirit through the improvement of access in the process of creation of enterprise - the aid of social economy.
- The encouragement of adaptability of enterprises and employees through the promotion of lifelong learning and labor practices of incorporation, the support of adaptability of companies and workers.
- The aid of equal chances policies for men and women through the combination familial and professional life and the encouragement of suppression of professional segregation.
- The support of social & professional integration of applicants requesting asylum.
