Translation of "Employment Bridging Assistance Program " (English → French) :

In cases where a bridging program charges a fee or tuition, we are working closely with our service providers and the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to ensure that participants in bridge training programs offered at post-secondary institutions are eligible for financial assistance, either through the Ontario student assistance program—that's the OSAP loan—or through a new initiative the province has started called the Ontario bridging participant assistance program.

31. Welcomes the Law on protection of the family and prevention of violence against women; commends the National Action Plan to combat Violence against Women (2012-2015) and stresses the need to enforce it effectively nationwide; calls on the Ministry for Family and Social Policies to continue its efforts to increase the number and quality of shelters for women and minors in danger; stresses the importance of providing women who have been victims of violence with concrete alternatives and self-sustainment prospects; commends Turkey’s efforts, at all levels, to fight against ‘honour killings’, domestic violence and the phenomenon of forced marriages and child brides, and underlines the importance of a zero-tolerance attitude towards viol ...[+++]ence against women, and the importance of continuously stepping up prevention measures; is concerned, however, by the fact that, despite such efforts, violence against women is still a regular occurrence, and asks that those who fail to protect and assist victims be identified and prosecuted; stresses the importance of tackling poverty amongst women and of increasing the social inclusion of women; calls on the Ministry to continue actively to promote women’s rights, education – including by bridging the gender gap in secondary education – and participation in the labour market (which remains low), in politics and at senior level in the public as well as private sector, if necessary by introducing reserved quotas and by reviewing certain specific laws regulating employment in Turkey; encourages the Government of Turkey to revise the law on political parties and the law on elections in order to make the inclusion of women a priority for political parties; notes that Turkey’s 2023 employment target for women is 35 %, while in the EU 2020 strategy the target is 75 %; encourages Turkey to strive to achieve an ambitious employment target for women;

L. whereas, approximately a quarter of the new jobs created since 2000 have been established through the contribution of immigrants; whereas migrants are increasingly opting for self-employment to find their way into the labour market, but in so doing are also more often experiencing financial difficulties; whereas migrant entrepreneurs and ethnic businesses play an important role in job creation and can function as community leaders and bridges to global markets and hence contribute to more successful integration; whereas, theref ...[+++]ore, Member States need to provide more information for and raise awareness of these groups, for example by creating a ‘one-stop-shop’ website for aspiring entrepreneurs which would provide information on opportunities and challenges, on European and national subsidies, and on organisations and bodies providing assistance in the field of self-employment;

To promote and facilitate professional employment for graduates, CNCS proposes that more funding be granted for programs that make it possible to bridge the gap between the universities and the work place, such as the Community-University Research Alliances, or CURA, the Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Industrial Research Assistance Program of the Nati ...[+++]onal Research Council of Canada, or NRC-IRAP.

12. Welcomes the creation of Local Centres for Labour Market Services and intermediate support structures, such as local development agencies and local employment observatories, as well as Job Creation Programs, which should also be able to provide information and training about the various support programs on European, national and regional levels and to assist in making ...[+++] applications for funding;

In the 1994-1999 programming period for structural operations, assistance earmarked for local development under state programmes amounted to 10% of overall Structural Fund resources and still accounted for less than 15% when calculated together with Community initiatives and innovative measures In its opinion on the report on the guidelines for programmes in the period 2000-2006 Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ...[+++]acknowledged the strategic importance of local schemes to development and employment as instruments for exploiting local development potential and the human resources available, and called for at least a quarter of total assistance under the new plans and programmes for the 2000-2006 period to be set aside for these schemes, including the technical assistance required to set them up.