EU funding for the project Workshops providing training+

Ljubljana, 10 June 2024 – The Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development has approved EU funding for the project Workshops providing training+. The European Social Fund Plus contribution stands at just under EUR 6 million.

The project Workshops providing training+ aims to integrate vulnerable target groups into the social entrepreneurship environment. It also focuses on developing activities and ensuring employment in existing social enterprises. It will significantly promote the social inclusion of people in need of thorough treatment, with identified multiple barriers to entering the labour market and at risk of poverty or social exclusion.

The project will not only promote the practical training of vulnerable unemployed people in need of thorough treatment in a concrete social entrepreneurship work setting, but it will also increase their social, professional and labour market integration. This, in turn, will enhance their competitiveness on the labour market and the acquisition and strengthening of their skills and competences. The project will contribute to the integration and empowerment of vulnerable social groups, implementing the principle of equal opportunities and preventing their social exclusion.

The project will also provide active employment support by encouraging participants who complete the practical training to take up subsidised employment with all employers, not only those in the social entrepreneurship sector, in the form of an employment relationship, with the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia paying the employers a subsidy for the employment. The programme will contribute to tackling the social and labour exclusion of the unemployed through an individualised and multidisciplinary approach and by including psychosocial support to strengthen general competences. The project will also contribute to reducing the mismatch between labour market supply and demand and to increasing the social security of the unemployed in the target group. The beneficiary of the financial contribution is the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia.

The project worth EUR 8 million will receive EUR 6,080,000 of European Social Fund Plus support.

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