PROMO – Promotion of mobility and protection of cross-border workers

PROMO Project – Promotion of mobility and protection of cross-border workers is carried out in partnership by the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy and the Employment Service of Slovenia.

General objective of PROMO Project is to provide information and encourage work mobility between Slovenia and Italy. The Project envisages long-term increase of the links between demand and supply, increased transparency of the developments on the labour market, more effective protection of workers, and at the same time implementation of the active cross-border labour market policy.

Specific objectives of the PROMO Project are as follows:

    • examination of needs and identification of resources on labour market;

    • establishing and facilitating links between demand and supply;

    • activation of the system of exchanges among institutions on both markets;

    • creating a network of services for cross-border employment.

The activities, carried out by the partner organisations in order to achieve the identified objectives, are as follows:

    • Conduct preliminary research, collecting, analysing and evaluation of the information on the situation and developments on labour market.

    • Set up and design a topical web portal PROMO in the two languages, which will allow for up-to-date and advanced services for employers and job seekers in the cross-border area.

    • Collecting and analysis of labour market data.

    • Creating a network of services for cross-border employment consultancy.

 

PROMO Project is carried out within Community initiative programme INTERREG IIIA Slovenia – Italy 2000–2006. Total value of PROMO Project is 740,609 euros.

The area covered by PROMO Project

The Project, taking place in the period from spring 2006 to the end of 2007, is carried out in the area along the inland and sea border between Italy and Slovenia, belonging to cross-border programme. In Slovenia Regional offices Koper, Nova Gorica and Kranj are involved, and in Italy Service for occupations and sectoral interventions at the General Directorate for labour, education, university and research of the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, covering the provinces of Trieste, Gorizia, Udine and Pordenone.

Experts for the analysis of labour market and employment are involved in the content part of the Project, whereas Italian company INSIEL and IT department at the Employment Service of Slovenia take care about the implementation of the contents and web solutions.

Different factors and limitations, such as cultural diversity and specifics of the environment, influencing the way and approaches to the partner's operations, differences in legal and other social arrangements, systems and ways of work, language barriers in communication, and similar play an important role in cooperation in international projects.

For further information about the contact

Project Manager Mrs. Dorotea Verša, MA

Telephone: ++386 1 479 09 45