Pilot projects in the area of the new sources for jobs Table of contents Pilot projects in the area of the new sources for jobs .......................................................................................................3 Services and the person ........................................................................................................................6 BERLIN-SERVICE: A regional policy initiative to develop household services ..................................................................6 CACEP – Centre for Assistance in the Creation of Local Businesses ................................................................................8 GIMUT – Day care centre for working women ..................................................................................................................10 INFORMALAVORO ............................................................................................................................................................12 JHC – Jobs for Home Care ...............................................................................................................................................14 SDL – Neighbourhood services: new sources of jobs for women ...................................................................................16 SECI: Education and care for children ..............................................................................................................................18 Services and quality of life ....................................................................................................................20 CONTRACTING-BÜRO – office for energy-saving contracting ........................................................................................20 IES 2000 – Economic and Social Initiatives 2000 .............................................................................................................22 LOISIR – Creation of local jobs in tourism ........................................................................................................................24 TUTEAR – Technological and artisanal tourism ................................................................................................................26 Services and the environment ...............................................................................................................28 ACCUREG – a secondary labour market agency for refurbishing accumulators .............................................................28 CLEAN – Partners for Innovation at Work .........................................................................................................................30 EED – Environment - Employment - Development ...........................................................................................................32 MODE – Mediterranean Computers for Development and Employment ..........................................................................34 REVOL – Treatment and recycling of waste ......................................................................................................................36 Miscellaneous ....................................................................................................................................38 AFL – Workshop for Training and Employment .................................................................................................................38 ALEGRE – Local employment actions in the Sierra de Gredos ........................................................................................40 BAMB – new sources for jobs ...........................................................................................................................................42 CEAQV-INNOVaction – Creating jobs and improving quality of life ..................................................................................44 DANSK KUR-TURISME .....................................................................................................................................................46 DEFI Haute-Saône – Local Initiatives Project for the Development of New Job Opportunities .......................................48 DELGRES – Activating, Exchanging, Managing Environmental and Social Resources ...................................................50 EMPLOYMENT 3i: Initiate – Innovate – Institute ..............................................................................................................52 ERNE – Regional Strategy for New Jobs ..........................................................................................................................54 ESPARRU 17 – Innovative actions in relation with New Sources for Jobs in Gipuzkoa ..................................................56 ESTIA .................................................................................................................................................................................58 ETRAVE – Europe TRAVail Emploi .....................................................................................................................................60 FOKIS – Trade Unions and Co-operative Enterprise in Joint Action for New Jobs .........................................................62 HOME – A house for a people: new quality for a new comfort ........................................................................................64 JOB-SPRING – Action plan for developing employment in the Greater Pirean area .......................................................66 MARSEILLE - MÉDITERRANÉE ........................................................................................................................................68 NJFG – New jobs for Glasgow ..........................................................................................................................................70 NIOVALLÈS – New Job Initiatives in Vallès Occidental ....................................................................................................72 NYEC – New Sources for Jobs in Cantabria ....................................................................................................................74 PICENUM 2000 – Pilot Project for an active job policy in the Province of Ascoli Piceno ................................................76 NYE-ELCIPE – Strategies for the Setting up and Development of SMEs and Job Creation ...........................................78 RCCN – Rural Community Care Network .........................................................................................................................80 SYNERGIA – Creation of new local structures and institutions for the promotion of local employment .........................82 TRADESA – New Jobs – New Opportunities for Development ........................................................................................84 WINN SJ – West of Ireland Network .................................................................................................................................86 2 Pilot projects in the area of the new sources for jobs They represent a major challenge for Europe. They The concept of new sources for jobs is also con- are totally in line with the approach initiated by the verging on the need for employment: White Paper1. They are characterised by the emer- • the need to employ potential workers (not only the gence of activities and jobs in new sectors. They unemployed, but also job seekers in the broad are: “the new sources for jobs”. sense of the term; people who would only work These jobs really are new: either because they meet if the social conditions are right: women/mothers, needs (“social demand”) which are at present unful- women/heads of families, disabled people, etc.) filled, or because they encompass them using meth- and… ods which do not come under strictly financial mech- anisms (public benefits/public funding) or which tend • the need for employment to respond to the new to call into question social standards (moonlight- demands (new needs) that keep on growing. ing/black market). The development of these new In reality, this convergence is never automatic. In sources for jobs is through a combination of two ele- order to materialise, it needs to be built up. So that ments which constitute their framework: the devel- the new sources for jobs are able to emerge as opment of activities at local level as one answer to areas (sectors) of economic activity, it is not only mass unemployment and the organisation of job-cre- important to satisfy social demand but also for it to ating enterprises in new services sectors. be increasingly expressed as a commercial/solvent THE PROBLEM OF THE NEW SOURCES FOR JOBS demand. A process will thus be launched to enable companies to gradually find the conditions for eco- At the root of the new sources for jobs is the fol- nomic viability. lowing acknowledgement: for several years now and on a huge scale, “functions” have been revealed EMERGENCE OF NEW SOURCES FOR JOBS which, although undeniably of social use, are not AND LOCAL INITIATIVES sufficiently taken up with regard to users/con- In this context, the implementation of innovative sumers/clients. These “functions” include local approaches and steps is essential. This approach is services for individuals and families, audiovisual a raison d’être for Article 10 of the ERDF, which services, leisure and culture services, improvement specifically includes among its objectives innovation of the living