Increasing cross-border employment, eliminating obstacles to mobility, is one of the objectives of the EURES Transfrontier Algarve – Andalusia project, which was launched on the 9th and 10th of February in Huelva.
The services of the cross-border Andalusia-Algarve EURES will be provided at the Physical Employment Office, which will act as a one-stop information point in the Hostelería de Islantilla School, in Spain.
«The project's virtual workshop will consist of a platform websites in which all information related to the labor market of both regions will be made available, including labor legislation” and questions “on living conditions”, explains the Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP).
During the days, where this program was launched, the working groups established other objectives of the project for this first year, such as “structuring the collaboration network between partners within the EURES Transfrontier, involving the social partners” and “producing diagnostic tools and monitoring the mobility of cross-border workers Andalusia-Algarve».
Hence, considers the IEFP, "it could result in the creation of a permanent employment observatory, with universities having a fundamental role". Both the need to "lay the foundations of labor intermediation" and to encourage "cross-border recruitment" were other objectives outlined.
This project has as promoters the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE), from Spain, and its counterpart from Portugal: the IEFP.
The partners, on the Spanish side, are the Huelva Provincial Council through the service Europe Direct, the Confederation of Andalusian Entrepreneurs (CEA), the Federation of Huelva Employers (FOE), the Union Confederation of Workers' Commissions of Andalusia (CCOO) and the University of Huelva (UHU).
On the Portuguese side, the project has a partnership with Associação Odiana, an entity that manages some European projects in the municipalities of Baixo Guadiana, with the Association of Hotels and Touristic Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA), with the Association of Commerce and Services of the Algarve (ACRAL) , of the General Union of Workers of the Algarve (UGT-Algarve), of the General Confederation of Portuguese National Inter-union Workers (CGTP-IN) and of the University of the Algarve (UAlg).
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