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ADAPT

ADAPT is the Community initiative which aims to help the workforce adapt to industrial change, and to promote growth, employment and the competitiveness of companies in the European Union. 4.000 projects have been funded between 1995 and 1999, all concerned with the preservation of existing jobs and the creation of new ones.

The objective of the ADAPT Initiative is to transform the way in which small firms, the organisations which support them, and workers themselves, respond to industrial change. ADAPT designs and tests new ways of tackling these changes and this development work goes on in projects throughout Europe. The final task of the ADAPT projects is to make others aware of their results and of how to use them.

ADAPT funds projects that are innovative, have a high degree of local involvement and are able to show how they intend to help others to gain from their experience, results and products. The impact of these projects is reinforced by grouping them in transnational partnerships.

Priority has been given to experimental projects that help workers and firms cope with change by:
developing new ways to anticipate its effects;
raising awareness about the consequences;
providing workers with additional forms of training, counselling and guidance;
setting up networks to help companies;
adapting existing support structures;
promoting job creation;

In the second phase of ADAPT (1997-99), an additional priority has been added to the Initiative: the employment implications of the development of the Information Society.

During the last five years, ADAPT focused primarily on the following themes:
new forms for work organisations
the implications of flexibility
SMEs and anticipation
cooperation and networking
SMEs and continuing training.

 

 

 
 
 

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