Traduction de «Vocational Training for Ex-Combatants Project » (Anglais → Français) :

15. Welcomes the EIB’s new ‘Skills and Jobs - Investing for Youth’ initiative, focusing on financing facilities for vocational training and student/apprentice mobility to provide young people with lasting employment opportunities, and calls for an even greater focus on vocational training and increased investments in this lending programme in the coming years; believes, however, that this programme should not divert funding away from the current grants system, in particular as regards the Era ...[+++]smus+ programme; stresses that mobility must be treated as an opportunity and remain voluntary, and not become an instrument which contributes to the depopulation and marginalisation of areas affected by unemployment; calls for attention to be paid to those projects which will enable quality jobs creation, with a special focus on projects related to youth employment creation, increasing the share of the labour market held by women, reducing long-term unemployment and improving the possibilities of disadvantaged groups to secure jobs;

With regard to the themes of projects, their embedding in the local and regional context, and the composition of stakeholders, there should be important synergies with other Union programmes, namely in the areas of education, vocational training and youth, sport, culture and the audiovisual sector, fundamental rights and freedoms, social inclusion, gender equality, combating discrimination, research and innovat ...[+++]ion, information society, enlargement and the external action of the Union.

20. Calls in the preparation of the future cohesion policy post 2013 for a strong EU-wide cohesion policy that streamlines existing funds and programmes that should ensure adequate financial resources and align the policy with the objectives of Europe 2020 Strategy; believes that funds should be focused on meeting the challenge of economic restructuring making the shift to a sustainable and competitive economy, including existing programmes aimed at globalisation, education, vocational training etc. to combat unemployment and reducing social inequalities; is strongly opposed to any renationalisation; furthermore, ...[+++]calls for proposals to improve the absorption capacity through innovation investment and facilitating access to finance for SMEs; asks in this context the Commission to consider a new system, for instance called JERICHO (‘Joint Rural Investment CHOice’), for the Rural Development Fund which, based on the experience from the JEREMIE initiative, could provide SMEs with finance in rural areas where the market fails; believes that simplification, better application of the partnership principle and multi-level governance would improve absorption rate;

In this context, employers and those responsible for vocational training should be encouraged to take measures to combat all forms of discrimination on grounds of sex and, in particular, to take preventive measures against harassment and sexual harassment in the workplace and in access to employment, vocational training and promotion, in accordance with national law and practice.

At present the Council and Commission envisage extending the method to a range of areas including: the information society, research policy, enterprise policy, education and vocational training, action to combat social exclusion, social protection, immigration policy, a common asylum policy, the development of health services, a policy to meet the needs of the elderly, etc.

This is particularly relevant as regards employment, notably in relation to the promotion of vocational training, social protection, combating exclusion and modernising employment relations.