European Social Fund/Sustainable employability
The Arbeidsmarktregio Zuid-Limburg is committed to combating (youth) unemployment and the job guidance of people with a distance to the labor market. With the help of European Social Fund (ESF) funds, people with a distance to the labor market can be assisted in finding the right education or job and attention can be paid to people with a distance to the labor market.
Examples of activities that can be carried out thanks to ESF funds are:
- establishing youth counters;
- Creating work experience places;
- the use of reintegration coaches;
- deploying placement support tools such as wage subsidy;
- and guiding labor-impaired people to work.
In order to carry out these activities as effectively and efficiently as possible, the Labor Market Region South-Limburg constructively cooperates between the three sub-regions Maastricht-Heuvelland, Parkstad and Westelijke-Mijnstreek. The implementation of this ESF project will also work to strengthen cooperation between parties in the South Limburg Labor Market Region.
Sustainable employability
Sustainable employability is keeping employees optimally employable throughout their entire working career, so that they can work (together) with pleasure, healthily, competently and productively, now and in the future.
Within the Urban Development and Management sector of the municipality of Kerkrade, the Environment & Construction and Urban Development departments started in 2019 to set up and promote a learning culture, which includes getting to know each other better or having knowledge of each other's knowledge and skills, so that mutual cooperation is even better. Goal-oriented cooperation and coaching leadership are important keywords in this process. In this we are guided by bureau Credo Consultancy.
Within this program, on the one hand, attention is paid to the employee as an individual because people who work from their talents are happier and more productive. In addition, attention is paid to the collective, the team. Working together achieves more, and what is particularly important is that employees are and remain optimally employable throughout their entire working career.
This training program is made possible in part by an ESF grant for which the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment has issued a grant decision as of June 26, 2019.
