ESF-SI-2024-LTU-01-0064
Bridges to Employment – Empowering through sustainable career pathways
BRIDGES aims to adapt and transfer elements of successfully tested approaches to meet the specific needs of hard-to-integrate Long Term Unemployed, identified in the Regions of Berlin (DE), Vienna (AT), Bologna (IT) and Dublin (IE).
The partnership is composed by public and private organisations that bring valued competences and experience, both in countries that have experienced subsidised employment measures and in countries where these haven’t taken place: BRIDGES is politically steered by the Land Berlin through SenASIGVA, having led the SBI measure while OSB has taken part in the MAGMA program in Austria. The BJC and AECA with its local partners bring in important experiences in active labour market successful measures, targeted, holistic and employment led which will benefit the experiences.
BRIDGES builds upon systematic transnational exchange and peer learning: by fostering continuous mutual learning among organisations, staff, and through communities of practice, innovative employment measures will be tailored to local contexts. Participation of civil society actors and building new relationships between public, private and third sector entities will generate an input of improved services and policies.
The pilots will be basing upon previous experiences but integrated with the most suitable elements to address specific local needs emerged, like the integration of persons with disabilities and health issues, younger LTU, women. Their results will be part of a deep and wide program of capitalisation, capacity building and policy practice dialogue, fostering further mainstreaming, transfer and scalability of the social innovations tested.
Expected results:
- Support 60 to 100 long-term unemployed (LTU) individuals across Ireland, Germany, Austria, and Italy through tailored pre-employment and subsidised employment pathways, with a focus on vulnerable subgroups such as people with disabilities or health issues, women with caregiving responsibilities, and at-risk youth.
- Train 40 employment coaches and 40 company mentors to provide person-centred support before, during, and after job placements.
- Engage 40 to 60 local organisations and employment providers in the design and delivery of inclusive labour market interventions.
Funding: 2,742,522.00 Eur
Social innovation scale-up
The Solidarity Basic Income (SBI) from Germany and MAGMA from Austria.