EaSI operational objectives
EaSI serves ten operational objectives in line with the ESF+ three main policy areas: employment and labour mobility, education and training, social integration.
These objectives include:
- improving access to employment and activation measures for all jobseekers and inactive people
- modernizing labour market institutions and services
- promoting a gender-balanced labour market participation, equal working conditions, and a better work-life balance
- promoting the adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, active and healthy ageing and a healthy and well-adapted working environment
- improving the quality, inclusiveness, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems
- promoting equal access to and completion of quality and inclusive education and training
- promoting lifelong learning
- fostering active inclusion and improving employability
- promoting socio-economic integration of third-country nationals and of marginalised communities
- 10.enhancing equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services; modernising social protection systems; improving accessibility.
Opportunities Offered by EaSI
Within the framework of EaSI, interested parties can benefit from:
- Networking and capacity-building activities.
- Cross-border partnerships and services, addressing labour shortages in specific regions.
- EU-wide mobility programmes, aimed at tackling labour market imbalances.
- Innovative social policy actions, through pilot projects that test new solutions to social and employment challenges.
Horizontal Principles of EaSI
All actions are underpinned by the core principles of the ESF+ Regulation, as follows:
- Prevention of discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
- Accessibility for persons with disabilities, including in the field of information and communication technologies.
- Gender equality and gender mainstreaming.
- Increased participation of women in employment, as well as work–life balance, tackling the “feminisation” of poverty, and addressing gender-based discrimination in the labour market and in education/training.
- High levels of employment, fair social protection, and a skilled and resilient workforce.
- Inclusive and cohesive societies, aiming at the eradication of poverty and the respect of the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights.