• Guidance on hiring
• Job offers management
• Transversal programs
  • Help and subventions
    • Support for undertaking employment actions by non-profit entities
    • Agrarian Campaign
    • Promotion of hiring of disabled workers
    • Promotion of the indefinite hiring of disabled workers coming from an occupational enclave
    • Forma i Contracta (Train and Hire)
    • Training for workers and unemployed to undertake training actions linked to the Professional Qualification Catalogue
    • Training Programme in Priority and Emerging Sectors 2008-2009
    • "Forma't" (Get trained)
    • Other ways to fulfill the 2% tax
    • Programmes for Initial Professional Qualification
    • Innovative Projects
    • Subvencions per a persones treballadores excedents del sector tèxtil i de la confecció
    • "Talent Jove" (Young Talent), Company of the future
  • Biddings
• How to become an entity or collaborating centre in terms of occupational training courses
• Continuous Training Services
• Local development programmes
• Territorial consortiums
• Questions and answers
• Incentives in the companies

Innovative Projects 2008

Official notification 2008

The Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya, through this official notification, promotes innovative, integral and sustainable projects that must incorporate improvements in opportunities for employment and quality of the jobs, territorial balance and competitiveness of the companies.

The aim of these Innovative Projects is to improve the quality of employment in Catalonia with a bearing on the stability of employment, the level of qualification of people, health and safety at work, equal opportunities and the integration into the labour market of groups with special difficulties.

These projects must be identified with the following strategic lines:

• Equal opportunities at work
• Improvement in professional skills
• Transformation of the productive model and improvement in competitiveness
• Promotion of trans-national and interregional cooperation
• Improvement of employability and boosting of the labour insertion processes

Beneficiaries of the subsidy

Public or private companies that undertake actions for the improvement of employment in Catalonia.

Target groups

According to the programmes of each project, different groups will be selected, some of them as priorities, such as: women who can work, young people, disabled people, people aged over 45, people with low qualifications at risk of social exclusion.

Funding

41,500,000 euros from the European Social Fund

Regulation

• Order TRE/337/2008, of the 10 July, which establishes the rules for subsidies for innovative programmes co-funded by the European Social Fund and opens the official notification for 2008.

More information

• Projects Presentation Innovadors 2008
• Press release of the Departament de Treball (13 August of 2008)