The Industrial Association - Veliko Tarnovo is starting a project “Building a sustainable model and partner network to support employment and labour mobility in the cross border area Bulgaria-Romania”.

The aim of the project is to promote labor mobility in key economic sectors in the field of cross-border cooperation by creating conditions for balance between supply and demand on the labor market.

Target groups:

• The active population in the cross-border area Bulgaria-Romania - approximately 2125,600 people;
• Inactive population and unemployed persons in the cross-border area Bulgaria-Romania - approximately 400 000 persons;
• Private companies - no less than 500

Partners

• The Industrial Association - Veliko Tarnovo (Lead beneficiary)
• The Constanta Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Navigation and Agriculture – CCINA Constanta (Romania)
• The Bulgarian Industrial Association

Activities

• Identification of key economic sectors with potential for labor mobility in the cross-border area;
• Development of competent catalogs of the selected enterprises with a description of the basic knowledge, skills, competencies required by the employers;
• Development of e-tools for competence assessment;
• Conducting a survey of at least 300 target group representatives on employment opportunities;
• Development and implementation of e-trainings for at least 300 representatives of the target group;
• Conducting trainings for HR specialists from Bulgaria and Romania in order to improve their skills for selecting the labor force on the other side of the border;
• Awareness raising campaign on employment opportunities in the cross-border region Bulgaria - Romania;
• Development and maintenance of a common database with useful information for the employees and the employers on both sides of the border.

Expected results

• Established conditions for balance between supply and demand on the labor market in the cross-border region;
• Established conditions for sustainable jobs, career development and more employment opportunities;
• Promoted labor mobility

The project is funded under the INTERREG program, totaling € 593,492.79, of which € 504,468.87 are from European funding. It is expected to be completed in the spring of 2019.