Donor:
European Union
Amount in Euro:
322.426,36 €
Duration:
Start: 1 March 2018
End: 29 February 2020
Short description of the project:
Skilled Workforce for Economic Integration – SWEI is a European Union funded project and managed by the Office of the European Delegation to Albania. SWEI is designed to promote cooperation, best practice exchange, and improve efficiency and quality of Employment Services and Vocational Training Services, for sustainable employment of jobseekers, training of youth to support socio-economic integration in the cross-border region.
The specific objective of the SWEI project is to create skilled labour force among youth based on labour market demand, for better employment opportunities through training, job mediation, family economies and start-ups, by improving employment and training services in cross border region.
Project characteristics:
- Review of the current PES services in the cross-border region.
- The current services in PES in cross-border region is improved
- Two vocational standards, curricula and qualification are developed and formally approved by relevant institutions in both countries.
- 80 unemployed people are trained for collection, cultivation, processing and commercial promotion of forests grown fruits and medical herbs and 40 unemployed people are trained for Business Start-up
- At least 60 beneficiaries are economically integrated through, job mediation, family economies and start-ups,
- The connection between businesses in the field of agriculture, specifically forest grown products and medical herbs in cross border area is improved
- The interest of youth people in Cross border region for collection production and processing for forest grown fruits and medical herbs is increased.
