Examples of regional plans for using ESF for interregional cooperation at European level: Regional G

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Examples of regional plans for using ESF for
inter-regional co-operation at European level
Regional Government of Tuscany

• Giacomo Gambino,
• General Director, Regional Department for
  Education, Tuition and EmploymentRegional
  Government of Tuscany
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Transnational Priority Issues

• Boosting individual and organised mobility
  towards EU countries, i.e. promoting study,
  lifelong learning and working experiences abroad.
• Boosting the transnational dimension of pilot
  projects, promoted and financed by the Provinces
  of Tuscany
• Enhancing projects supporting transnational
  activities for the creation of services and
  initiatives to boost citizens mobility, exchange
  of good practices and transfer of innovation
  between the actors of the different EU countries
• Promoting interinstitutional cooperation between
  Tuscany and other European Regions starting from
  the Earlall Network

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1. Mobility enhancing study and work experiences
abroad

• Aims to guarantee to a broad group of citizens
  the possibility to work and study abroad
• Target group trainees, schools or tertiary
  system attendees, young graduated, researchers
  and entrepreneurs
• Study and work experiences abroad can be promoted
  by individuals, schools, vocational training
  centres or by social partners and enterprises
• This field sets principally on the structured
  cooperation with the other European Regions

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2. Transnationality in Pilot Projects

• Tuscan Provinces and Areas will be able to
  promote projects according to the ESF priorities
  as joint actions involving more than one Province
  or Italian Region
• In these cases the eventually present
  transnational character of the projects can be
  supported by regional resources coming from the
  ESF

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3. Transnational Services and Initiatives (a)

• Aims assuring basic services providing
  continuity, quality and widespread of different
  transnational cooperation practices throughout
  different fields
• Actions services aiming to support projects for
  mobility, goods exchange and for the mutual
  enhancement of activities that have the final aim
  to boost instruments and services for lifelong
  learning, employment and mobility
• The cooperation with other Regions in this field
  must aim to subjects having same goals and
  interests

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3. Transnational Services and Initiatives (b)

• Aims promoting transnational networking and
  cooperation among stakeholders of regional
  systems of lifelong learning and labor policies
• Actors social partners, association of firms,
  etc.
• Cooperation with Regions to promote cooperation
  among regional stake holders

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4. Interinstitutional Cooperation

• Aims promoting agreements from side of all
  political institutions involved in the ESF
  interventions
• The coordinated actions of the Regional
  Governments according to the programmed
  activities must vouch for the suitability of the
  aims, of interventions, of resources and of
  partners.
• Bilateral and multilateral agreements, signed in
  the name of the Presidents of the here involved
  Regions through which the partners are committed
  to cooperate in order to achieve a series of
  common goals within the limits of their
  institutional competences