EURES Cross-border Andalucía-Algarve

Call reference number: VP/2018/007

Programme title: EaSI - EURES – Cross-border partnerships and support to cooperation on intra-EU mobility for EEA countries and social partners

Application reference: VP/2018/007/0017

Action title: EURES Cross-border Andalucía-Algarve

Summary of the action: The key objectives of the EURES cross-border partnership Andalucía-Algarve, in line with EURES Regulation, the objectives of the call for proposals, and the strategic line of the partnership are:
- To gather and analyse evidence on cross-border mobility in the cross-border region, regarding its current state of play as well as future potential. To produce a cross-border mobility report based on the evidence collected, which includes specific recommendations from all partners in order to eliminate the obstacles to mobility.
- To promote workers' voluntary transnational cross-border mobility between the regions of Andalusia and Algarve.
- To provide greater transparency on the labour market by encouraging employers to place their vacancies as well as their job offers for apprenticeship and traineeships with the EURES Cross-border partnership, in order to easily make them available to job-seekers through the EURES portal and the Websites of the PES partners.
- To boost employment opportunities especially for those who are furthest to the labour market. This objective will also been attained by unveiling existing business opportunities in both regions and assisting job-seekers to seize them, so as to stimulate the creation of self-employment.
- To support the implementation of EURES regulation.
- To strengthen the structure of the partnership, foster the cohesion of the cross-border labour markets and integrate new EURES partners and members.
The geographical scope of this cross-border partnership is the Portuguese region of Algarve (NUTS code PT15) and the Spanish region of Andalusia (NUTS code ES61), mainly the border province of Huelva.
The target groups of the EURES cross-border Andalucía-Algarve partnership are commuting frontier workers, job-seekers in particular young people and long-term unemployed, as well as graduates and employers.
The partnership is made up of PES, Universities,Trade Unions, Employers organisations, local and provincial authorities.