A new project titled: "OPEN-INDEPENDENT-ACTIVE" by the European Meeting Centre – Nowy Staw Foundation and Labour Market Institute has just started since 1st August 2010. It is being implemented within the area of the town Ostrołęka and Ostrołęka county. The goal of the project is to raise unemployed women’s activity on the labour market within the area of the project. The project office is based in Ostrołęka. The project is implemented within the frames of the European Social Fund.
The project is oriented towards unemployed women between 18 and 60 years of age (registered or not registered in the Employment Office) living in Ostroleka or Ostroleka county that are willing to undertake employment. The project is addressed in particular to permanently jobless women from remote areas, women over 45, single mothers, women being in difficult economic conditions. Within the project participants will get special advisory referring to the identification of their personal and professional capacity and carrier planning (individual advisory) and job searching capabilities (professional group advisory), raise personal qualifications (labour market workshops) and they will get the opportunity to benefit from new abilities participating in 3 month professional stage. Participants get travel cost reimbursement, half board during workshops, stage money and return of the cost of childcare (children under 7 years old) and dependent persons’ care. Participation in the project is free of charge.
