Traduction de «Employment programme » (Anglais → Français) :

Investments in innovation represent an overarching priority for cohesion policy under both the Convergence and Regional competitiveness and employment programmes.

- employment programmes must also be targeted at older workers so that employers have an incentive to retain older workers in their jobs.

The employment programme gave special priority to modernising public employment services and the education programme focused mainly on innovative action to modernise the education system, in particular on aspects of lifelong learning.

- ensure that employment programmes are also be targeted at older workers so that employers have an incentive to retain older workers in their jobs; one possible approach would be to co-finance these projects in part from the Structural Funds;

Moreover, the proposal of establishing territorial partnerships for employment, involving the public and private sectors, goes beyond the scope of the structural funds and provides a useful link between smaller territorial units and multiannual employment programmes agreed at national level.

3. Is convinced that local development and employment initiatives are preconditions for lasting development which contribute not only to an improvement of the living environment in urban and rural areas but above all represent the proper framework for the creation of permanent employment opportunities and hence are an important first step in finding a solution for the EU's crisis areas which have degenerated into social exclusion and where local infrastructure has been destroyed. It is, therefore, incomprehensible that only 10% of the entire amount for the period 1994-1999 has been allocated to local development, while on the other hand, a large proportion of the large-scale projects promoted by considerable contributions from the Structura ...[+++]l Funds have no more than short-term effects on employment and in some cases actually hamper or prevent the creation of jobs linked to the area; calls therefore on the Member States to introduce greater variety into their employment programmes and to include in them a chapter on local employment; calls on the Commission to support the Member States in such efforts and to insist, as being crucial to the efficient use of appropriations, on the proportion of Structural Fund allocations earmarked for local employment initiatives being raised;