Controlling the Purse: How the European Parliament Shaped Social Policy Through the European Social Fund

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-278
Author(s):  
Mechthild Roos
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund

Title XI The European Social Fund

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund

The European Social Fund (ESF) provides financial support to MS for action that increases the employability of existing and potential workers. It is now one of the Structural Funds and is, apart from the rules on eligibility of actions, governed by provisions that are common to those Funds. The ESF is an important complement to the TFEU provisions on social policy, since it allows the Union institutions actively to shape the priorities addressed by MS.

scholarly journals Multi-level governance and social cohesion in the European Union: the assessment of local agents, a study case inside Galicia

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-213
Author(s):  
Mónica López-Viso ◽  
Antón Lois Fernández Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
The Poor ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Multi Level

Implementing multi-level governance has been a key priority in EU cohesion policy. This study assesses the perceived achievements and shortcomings in implementing European Social Fund by analyzing the deficits and weaknesses as well as the poor participation of local agents who are in direct contact with the beneficiaries in order to design and implement this fund, which is the main financial instrument of EU social policy.

Article 164 TFEU

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Flynn
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
Ordinary Legislative Procedure ◽  
Committee Of The Regions

Article 148 EC The European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and after consulting the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, shall adopt implementing regulations relating to the European Social Fund.

scholarly journals Economic Evaluation of Supported-Employment Inspired Program for Pupils With Intellectual Disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Larsson Tholén ◽  
Lars Hultkrantz ◽  
Mattias Persson
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Average Treatment Effect ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Intervention Impact

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column">In this study, we investigate whether, or to what degree, a ‘business case’ could be made for implementation of a Supported-Employment (SE) inspired program for pupils with intellectual disabilities (IDs), starting during the final school years. For this aim, we do a quasi-experimental before-after intervention impact evaluation of such a project funded by the European Social Fund in the Swedish city of Örebro (135,000 inhabitants) during 2010–2013. From an estimate of the average treatment effect, we calculate the internal net present value and the payback period that would make this program break even from avoided expenditure for day-activity services, assuming that it had been funded entirely by the municipality. </div></div></div>

scholarly journals An assessment of the effectiveness of support for university programs from the human capital operational program in years 2013-2015 in the development of students competences in entrepreneurship

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Kinga Koroniejko
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Field Education ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Operational Program ◽  
Student Competencies ◽  
Development Of Students

The article presents the ways of support from European funds in the development of student competencies and organizational innovation in the field education. It is based on a case study of the project ‘Inżynieria materiałowa – inżynieria przyszłości’ (Material engineering – engineering of the future’), financed by the European Social Fund in Poland. The project was implemented at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Cracow University of Technology in the years 2012-15. The research methods used are critical analysis of literature sources, surveys and a case study of the project mentioned above.

scholarly journals Patterns of workplace innovation in the Basque Country: Challenges and lessons from Gipuzkoa

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Egoitz Pomares ◽  
Alvaro Luna ◽  
Alfonso Unceta
Keyword(s):  
Basque Country ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Employment Skills ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Workforce Skills ◽  
Workplace Innovation ◽  
Innovation Practices

The importance of Workplace Innovation to improve competitiveness and employability strategies in the Basque Country has been a key ingredient of policy discussions in this region. This paper is focused on the analysis of the context and current state of workplace innovation and productivity skills in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country-Spain).The action-research study was conducted in 2015 (different economic sectors and organizations of the area) with the funding and support of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (Department for Economic Promotion) and the European Social Fund co-financing. The project was included as a specific case study of the workforce and workplace conditions of territorial organisations through the identification of the drivers and barriers of workplace innovation practices in 496 SME’s.The aim of this investigation is to build a new model of economic and social development that looks to understand the diverse and complex workplace environment of an important part of the Basque Country’s work organisations and companies.The evaluation of their practical learning activities, management as intervention, work organization, and worker participation, and their influence in the employment skills of their workers, is a crucial part of this research.This article takes a close look to these organizations, through a detailed analysis of their main changing processes in their workforce skills, their organizational knowledge and their economic and competitive performance.

Tools for social policy management: the SiSo Scale for measuring situations of social difficulty

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
ESTHER RAYA DIEZ ◽  
AURELIO LASCORZ FUMANAL
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
Metric Properties ◽  
Synthetic Index ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Social Difficulty

Abstract The design and evaluation of social policies requires information systems that enable social intervention with the people targeted by the programmes and services and that also offer indicators for the follow-up and monitoring of the policies adopted. The article presents the process of validation of a tool for diagnosing situations of social difficulty arising from social exclusion. The scale has been implemented in one of Spain’s seventeen Autonomous Communities and has been selected on the basis of Good Practice under the European Social Fund. Expert judges were consulted for content validity; the metric properties of the scores obtained by the scale were examined and an exploratory factorial analysis (EFA) was performed to study the internal structure. The results show that the scale has adequate levels of content validity, construct validity and internal consistency. The SiSo Scale supplies a synthetic index of Social Position, providing professionals with the technical tools needed to carry out social diagnoses and simultaneously giving valid and reliable information on the social condition of people in a situation of social exclusion, which can guide social policy decision-making.

Social Economy – Opportunities and Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pobeda Lukanova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
National Priority ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Fund

The social economy is part of the national economy that is subordinate to social goals and uses socially acceptable forms of organizing economic activities. The realization of its employment opportunities as well as products and services of social significance is a topical national priority. Here are presented the main features of this economy and its current situation in Bulgaria. The legal environment and the need for a framework law for it have been considered; opportunities for training of social entrepreneurs; insufficient use of the European Social Fund to finance its initiatives. The perspectives of the social economy are placed within the framework of the development of the digital economy and its element.

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