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New Employment through Innovative Tools and Services for an Efficient/Effective European Structural Funds Management

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The serious employment situation of 20 million unemployed is a central concern of the European Union, as indicated by the employment title in the Amsterdam Treaty. The European Structural Funds (EUSF) process, involving local, regional, national administrations and the EU, with a budget of 286.4 billion Euro for the period 2000-2006, is playing an important role in promoting employment, by providing support for medium and long-term job-creation and improving the match between physical and human resources and the operation of the labour market. However, the lack of administration efficiency (with most Member State's Structural Funds expenditures lagging behind mainly due to the existence of complex, Byzantine procedures and a highly fragmented organisation) and efficacy (no clear picture of results achieved, especially the number of jobs created) is resulting in serious deficiencies and delays in the deployment of the funded actions. As a result, collaboration and co-operation between different level of administrations to provide an efficient and effective EUSF process as well as seamless services to SMEs and individuals is becoming more than compulsory.

OBJECTIVES
The main aim of EMPLOY is to develop innovative, multimedia and integrated Tools and Services designed to support the Management of the European Structural Funds (EUSF) process, involving local, regional, national and EU administrations as well as SMEs and citizens as the final recipients.
Indeed, a more efficient/effective EUSF process is considered essential to create new job opportunities and reduce unemployment. As a consequence, the entire process will be revised (from proposal/funding, to funds provision and monitoring of funds usage) and all relevant actors included with the main objectives being to produce a cost reduction in the targeted public services ranging from 30 to 50 %, a productivity improvement of 50 % and above all, the creation of at least 50,000 new job opportunities, within the project lifetime.%lThe project involves Treasury and Finance Ministries and Regional Governments (all of them EU Objectives 1, ie, with their budgets highly depending upon structural funds), from the following countries: Italy, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus (facing the Structural Funds process by consequences of the EU enlargement).

DESCRIPTION OF WORK
With unemployed numbering around 20 million, the serious employment situation is a central concern of the European Union (eg, see the employment title in the Amsterdam Treaty). The European Structural Funds (EUSF) process, involving local, regional, national administrations and the EU, with a budget of 286.4 billion euros for the period 2000-2006, is playing an important role in promoting employment, by providing support for medium and long-term job-creation and improving the match between physical and human resources and the operation of the labour market. However, the lack of administration efficiency (with most member states Structural Funds expenditures lagging behind mainly due to the existence of complex, byzantine procedures and a highly fragmented organisation) and efficacy (no clear picture of achieved results, especially for the number of jobs created) is resulting in serious deficiencies and delays in the deployment of the funded actions.
As a result, collaboration and cooperation between different level of administrations to provide an efficient and effective EUSF process as well as seamless services to SMEs and individuals is becoming more than compulsory.

EMPLOY is to promote a genuine repositioning of the public administration towards their citizens needs and requirements, so as to:
-Produce better services to citizens and enterprises;
- Achieve efficiency and simplify the administration procedures and iter;
- Promote citizen access and control of administrative acts;
- Promote transparency of the information.

The project will start identifying the user requirements for an improved EUSF process, and subsequently it will undertake the definition and simulation of new re-designed process scenarios along with the definition of a global system architecture to support EUSF actors.
Then, the specification and implementation of a set of networked, multimedia and interoperable tools, to support inter-agency collaboration, enable Data Warehousing fun ctionality coupled with automated workflows will be carried out.
Finally, the project will be engaged in the specification, implementation and subsequent extensive validation of IST support of the new re-designed Structural Funds process in four member states (Italy, Ireland, Greece and Cyprus (which is joining the Union)).
The project is a 34 months effort led by AIP (I), the Association of the Poliecnico di Milano and one of the "major player in the Public Sector Reengineering" an Italian IT medium-sized company with expertise in Data Warehousing as well as European project management and includes other IT industries such as T&T (I), (MAC (IRL), Emphasis (EL), and VIRGO (EL)) active in the public sector, and it is supported by Associazione Impresa Politecnico of Milan (I), a major player in Public Sector Reengineering and. Committed European Administrations, with a deep interest in the rationalisation and cost-effectiveness of their tasks through the use of the EMPLOY demonstrators, such as the Italian Ministry of Treasury (I), the Greek Ministry of Agriculture (EL) and the Cypriot Ministry of Finance (CY), along with Regional Governments from Objective 1 regions such as Basilicata (I), Mid-West Region (IRL) and Epirus (EL), will host the project demonstrators.

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