WIRE Project – Power from Networks for Individual Solutions in Life

Objectives

WIRE 1 and 2:

• To improve the life management of the unemployed who are in a weak labour market position.
• To reduce long-term unemployment, to activate the unemployed and increase their independent life control; to prevent social exclusion and promote welfare.
• To employ and activate unemployed people.
• To build an efficient network of co-operation and service guidance

WIRE 3:

• To integrate a comprehensive operational model of employability into the service system and cooperation with SMEs in the municipalities of the Jyväskylä region.

Results

WIRE 1 and 2: Model of employability, service products (health services, rehabilitation planning, active period, physical exercise services, and labour training).

WIRE 3: Municipality-specific operational models of employability, a model of company cooperation, criteria for case management in employment promotion.

Deliveries

WIRE 1 and 2: publications, seminars, consultations.

WIRE 3: publications, seminars.

Target groups

WIRE 1 AND 2: the long-term unemployed (unemployed for over a year) and organisations as well service providers in the field of employment treatment.

WIRE 3: organisations and service providers in the field of employment promotion, companies and the long-term unemployed.

Time of implementation

WIRE 1 and 2: 2000–2004.

WIRE 3: 2005–2006

Budget

WIRE 1 and 2: EUR 5,157,628 (total)

WIRE 3: EUR 1,753,282

Financing

WIRE 1 and 2: European Social Fund 3.1.1. and 3.2.3.

WIRE 3: European Social Fund 3.1.1

Partners

City of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä Labour Office, Employment and Economic Development Centre of Central Finland, Organisation of Entrepreneurs, Organisation of the Unemployed, Jyväskylä

Regional Development Company Jykes Ltd, University of Jyväskylä, Municipalities in the Jyväskylä region

Key words

WIRE 1: networking, long-term unemployed, quality

management / EFQM, employment treatment.

WIRE 3: integration, case management, co-operation with SMEs, employment treatment, developing service systems