The international evaluation committee of the MoreThanAJob project has officially selected the 10 project proposals that will be sub-granted in the partner countries. The projects share the public-private cooperation and partnership as added value for the development and delivery of welfare services promoting the social and labour inclusion of vulnerable people.

Following the qualitative evaluation and the interviews carried out with the applicant organizations, the sub-granted proposals in Jordan are:

·         Social Solidarity Economy Values and Principles: Education and Training submitted by Applied Scientific Research Fund

The project envisages the launch of activities aiming to raise the levels of social and work inclusion of migrants. The activities include training and Rehabilitation of the NEETs at Different Geographical Areas in Jordan at Different Training Themes that wood equip the trainees with enough competencies to engage into the local business communities

·         Agri-food Industry- Diary Industries submitted by Shihan Social Cooperation Association.

This project aims to promote income and the social solidarity of the unemployed youth, poor families and Syrian refugees who lives in the area. The project consists of two phases; phase one to provide training courses to the target group to be able to produce the products of the sheep's milk. In the 2nd phase, the necessary equipment and raw material (milk) required will be provided to the target groups. The raw material will be purchased from the sheep owners in the area. The production process will be supervised by the association for each family. At the end the marketing process will be provided to the producers for the market and neighbouring areas.

In the next weeks, we will share more information on the sub-granted projects, their activities and the results that they aim to achieve.

In the meantime, we congratulate with and we wish the best of luck to the selected organizations!

In the next weeks, we will share more information on the sub-granted projects, their activities and the results that they aim to achieve.

In the meantime, we congratulate with and we wish the best of luck to the selected organizations!

For more information on MoreThanAJob and the coming activities, please, write to Prof. Omer Maaith.  maaitah_noor@hotmail.com  or follow us on the project website, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

About MoreThanAJob

MoreThanAJob – Reinforcing social and solidarity economy for the unemployed, uneducated and refugees is a project funded by the European Union under ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. The project aims at enhancing the development of cooperation mechanisms between the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) actors and the public administration to improve the social services for vulnerable groups in order to increase their opportunities of social and labour inclusion.

Partners

·         An-Najah National University – ANNU (Palestine, coordinator)

·         Nablus Chamber of Commerce and Industry – NCCI (Palestine)

·         Mutah University – MUTAH (Jordan)

·         Business Consultancy and Training Services – BCTS (Lebanon)

·         CESIE (Italy)

·         Eurotraining Educational Organization SA – EUROTRAINING (Greece)

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For further information

See the project website, read more about MoreThanAJob and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Contact Giulia Tarantino: giulia.tarantino@cesie.org.