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• C. I. EQUALThe Knowledge based
  CoastIT-G2-TOS-0061
• The Equal project of the Tuscany Coast Italy
  between present and future developments
• Paolo Nanni
• President of Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo
• Brussels, 28th March 2008

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The Local Development Partnership and the area

• Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo is the referee for
  the project
• Provinces of Livorno, Pisa, Massa-Carrara, Lucca,
  Grosseto and 27 subjects are the local partners
• The area covered by the project is the coastal
  Tuscany, 5 provinces, 42.7 of the regions
  population (1,510,60 inhabitants) with
  homogeneous development similar labour, economic
  and social problems, that allow a common action
  against unemployement.

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The network and previous experiences

• The aim of the network (local bodies, social
  partners, transnational partners) developed
  through this one and other previous experiences
  to intervene in favour of employability and
  adaptability.
• Many projects were realized in the framework of
  C.I. (ADAPT and the two rounds of EQUAL)

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The local situation and the projects aims

• The crisis of the Tuscany productive system,
  linked to the international one, required
  interventions on innovation, competitiveness and
  training and on the empowerment of the human
  resource
• The general aim was to prevent and combat
  isolation of weakest workers to help - through
  continuos training and lifelong learning actions
  - relaunch of entrepreneurship competitiveness of
  the area with growth and improvement of human
  resources employed in it.

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The target groups and some data

• Final beneficiaries
• Employees that risk discrimination and
  inequalities in Labour Market / Disabled people
  / Immigrants
• Intermediate beneficiaries
• Integrated policies actors (labour, training,
  education, welfare) / Trainers and tutors
• Duration July 2005 to 31 May 2008
• Total cost 1,942,955.30

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Status

• 5 local needs analyses about productive sectors
  in crisis
• 84 training paths to update skills and
  competences (industry, agriculture, handycraft,
  public bodies, schools)
• over 1,100 employees in training
• 250 people over 50 helped by the over 50 desk
• Diffusion and information activities
  (conferences, workshops, spots, brochures,
  website).

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Relevant priorities

• The project is on line with the new EES
  guidelines. In fact it takes as a parameter
• Full occupation
• Quality and productivity
• Social quality and inclusion
• Innovation
• Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo and the partnership
  answer the challenges issued by the New Pact for
  Labour of Tuscany Region, "training of human
  resources" and "a Tuscany competitive in
  quality", building an experimental system to
  strengthen the set of skills and competences of
  the workers
• These priorities are achievable only by the
  transnational work, cooperation and comparison.

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About our 2 TCA

• Transnational activities (2 TCA M2E and Coast
  Regada) have been very important
• We participated in all workgroups of both TCA,
  organized meetings in Italy and coordinated the
  workgroups activities and outputs
• We have benefited from the transnational nature
  of this experience because transnationality is
  the real added value of Equal CI
• We built networks that will offer other
  opportunities of cooperation in new European
  programmes.

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Transnational results

• Joined activities among 8 European Regions
• Comparison of working styles, approches and
  culture
• Building of a virtual bridgeamong old and new
  Eu members
• 7 thematic work groups
• 7 research
• Guidelines, diffusion materials, video, CD,
  brochure, books

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Future developments and follow up

• In order to continue and develop the action for
  employability and adaptability it will be
  provided for by the Regional and European
  Programming and
• At a Regional level the 5 provinces have defined
• A mainstreaming action to receive the
  experimentation inside ordinary programming
• A new project of work inclusion by network
  action, funded by ESF
• To continue with the Tuscany Region support -
  the transnational experience through policy
  learning and policy transfer activity with
  previous and new partners

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Future developments and follow up

• The results achieved by the project encouraged us
  to look for further opportunities in the new
  European programs with short coming deadline
  calls, in order to continue, develop and enrich
  the activities carried out until now. For
  instance
• Employment and Social Affairs - DG Employment
  and Social Affairs - Budget line 04.03.03.01
  Support to European social dialogue
• Lifelong Learning Programme
• - Key activity 1 Cooperation and Innovation
  policies
• - Key activity 4 Dissemination and
  exploitation of the results
• Community Action Plan Programme in the sphere of
  employment and social solidarity - PROGRESS

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Thank you for your kind attention

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