Financial instruments’ support for inclusion & employment #personal loans

Financial instruments’ support for inclusion & employment #personal loans

A new fi-compass advisory publication explains how financial instruments can support Member State objectives for inclusion and employment. The factsheet highlights how Member States can proactively use the ESF to stimulate personal loans through financial instruments. The new publication shows how personal loans can help produce an educated, well‑trained workforce, with balanced work‑life conditions. This contributes to competitiveness and productivity in the European Union, enhancing social inclusion and reducing poverty. The factsheet describes benefits of financial instruments for ESF stakeholders by answering: Click here to download and share the new ESF factsheet on Personal Loans from the fi-compass website. Interested in
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Investment in R&D for a GDP growth #Innovation #H2020

Investment in R&D for a GDP growth #Innovation #H2020

Recent statistics demonstrate the positive effect of innovation on economy. The economic performance is strongly correlated to the level of R&D investments over the period 2004-2009. Impact of R&D investment in innovative enterprises, as well as enterprises from more innovative countries, report employment growth and have higher employment growth rates. The diagram below shows the various positions and strategies about R&D. It shows also that all Member States investing for the future were not hit so much by the crisis and have more changes to count on a sustainable growth. Between 2002 and 2007, the gross domestic expenditure on R&D as a
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ETCP Tour 2016 Registrations open #State Aid #Closure #Innovation

ETCP Tour 2016 Registrations open #State Aid #Closure #Innovation

ETCP launches new specific seminars in Europe. We start with 3 seminars in Eastern Europe: Brastislava, Warsaw and Prague. During this Tour, ETCP invites all european countries to gather in the region. Specific issue such as State Aid, Public Procurement, Closure or Innovation (and also ESF in the second semester) will be tackle during 2 days with key experts and special guests. The idea is to share expertise and experience from all Member States with a large range of countries, to discuss what has been done with cases and what should be done with action plan. At the end, each seminar gives you in a very
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Special workshop on Innovation 2020 in Brussels

Special workshop on Innovation 2020 in Brussels

ETCP launches a special workshop dedicated to Innovation 2020 with specific focus on concrete innovative actions. Special guests experts – Mr Adrian Healy and Ms Katarzyna Sobotka-Demianowskova – and ETCP lecturers – Mr Franck Sottou and Mr Colm Dunne – will help you to improve effectiveness of OP/policy interventions and create synergies with other policies.
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