annual final report 2007 2008 overall - eures polska

Annual report – Final report on overall evaluation of EURES activity in Poland within 1 April 2007 – 31 March 2008 (patrt I)

Ministry of Labour and Social Policy Labour Market Department

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Enclosure 1.1.

MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL POLICY

LABOUR MARKET DEPARTMENT

ANNUAL REPORT- FINAL REPORT

ON OVERALL EVALUATION

OF EURES ACTIVITIES

in POLAND

1 April 2007 –31 March 2008

part I

Warsaw, June 2008

Annual report – Final report on overall evaluation of EURES activity in Poland within 1 April 2007 – 31 March 2008 (patrt I)

Ministry of Labour and Social Policy Labour Market Department

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I. INTRODUCTION

On 1 May 2004, by virtue of Commission Decision of 23 December 2002 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 as regards the clearance of vacancies and applications for employment (2003/8/EC), the Polish public employment services were incorporated into EURES, the European Employment Service. It was also that day that a new labour market service – EURES service – was introduced by virtue of the Act of 20 April 2004 on the promotion of employment and labour market institutions. The new service was to be provided by all labour offices at voivodeships (regional) and poviat (local) level.

This report defines complex description of EURES activities carried out by Polish public employment services in period from April 2007 to March 2008. With this period Polish public employment services have started implementation of EURES National Action Plan for Poland for 2007-2010 and EURES Guidelines 2007-2010 of the European Commission.

Information, that is described below presents the activities implemented with reference to each of 10 priorities established by the European Commission for the years 2007-2010. They comprise of the activities financed from the EURES grant on the basis of grant agreement number VS/2007/0098, as well as those financed from financial resources of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (Labour Fund) and own financial resources of Voivodeship and Poviat Labour Offices.

This report does not contain a qualitative evaluation of implemented activities, because such an evaluation is contained in the second part of the annual report.

Annual report – Final report on overall evaluation of EURES activity in Poland within 1 April 2007 – 31 March 2008 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

Labour Market Department

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II. DESCRIPTION OF EURES ACTIVITIES IN POLAND IN TH E CONTEXT OF THE PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING THE EURES ACTIVITY PLAN FOR POLAND FOR THE YEARS 2007-2010

PRIORITY 1 Contribute actively, through the provision of performing information and assistance services, to the political objectives of the Growth and Jobs Strategy.

Task 1: All EURES members and partners shall be committed to the provision of comprehensive and professional information and assistance services to workers in the EU/EEA area.

Carried out activities Quantitative results Beneficiaries Institution,

which carried out activity

Source of financing

Voivodeship and Poviat Labour Offices provided EURES services in accordance with the binding national regulations with respect to the labour market service standards, including EURES service standards.

- Unemployed, jobseekers, employers and others

WUP1 and PUP2

Own financial resources of WUP and PUP

Task 2: All EURES members and partners shall ensure that in the provision of their services, the fundamental principle of equal treatment of all persons, irrespective of their country of residence in the EU/EEA area is respected.



Source of financing

Voivodeship and Poviat Labour Offices applied the fundamental right to equal treatment of all clients, regardless the country of origin in the territory of EU/EEA, in accordance with the EURES national service standards.

- Unemployed, jobseekers, employers and others

WUP and PUP -

1 Voivodship (Regional) Labour Office; 2 Poviat (Local) Labour Office;



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Task 3: EURES managers shall ensure that the available information is correct and up-to-date. Updates should be provided immediately after changes take place.



Source of financing

Labour Market Department in the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy worked out and sent to the European Commission in May 2007 updated information on living and working conditions and situation at national and regional labour markets in Poland.

The European Commission put these information on EURES portal www.eures.europa.eu in three languages – English, German and French.

Submission of approx. 80-page document to the European Commission.

Citizens of the EU/EEA MPIPS3, DRP4

Own financial resources of MPiPS

3 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy; 4 Labour Market Department.



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PRIORITY 2 Step up the mainstreaming of EURES in the Public Employment Services throughout the EU/EEA territory.

Task 1: Reflecting the role of the Public Employment Services (PES) in the EU/EEA as full members of the EURES network, all services involved in the management of the network shall ensure that mobility becomes a standard issue raised during contacts between PES and job seekers, and that EURES is properly included in the PES policy planning process, such as the setting of targets and performance indicators at national and regional level.



Source of financing

1. Incorporation of EURES activities into:

• National Action Plan for Employment in 2007. Document was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 27 March 2007,

• National Action Plan for Employment in 2008. Document was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 12 February 2008,

• National Reform Programme for 2005-2008 to implement the Lisbon Strategy. Document was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 27 December 2005.

Contribution to the plans and preparations of periodical reports on degree of implementation of these plans.

Polish PES MPiPS, DRP Own financial resources of MPIPS

2. Compliance with national regulations on EURES included in the Act dated on 20 April 2004 on employment promotion and labour market institutions (Dz.U.2004, Nr 99, Poz. 1001). Work on amendments to above mentioned Act in a field of EURES.

Contribution to the Act dated 24 August 2007 on amendment to the Act on employment promotion and labour market institutions and amendments to some other acts (Dz.U.2007, Nr 176, Poz. 1243).




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3. Compliance with national regulations on EURES in the respective regulations on conditions of provision of labour market services by Public Employment Services and standards of these services.

The Ordinance of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy dated 2 March 2007 concerning detailed conditions of providing labour market services by the Public Employment Services (Dz.U.2007, Nr 47, Poz. 315).

The Ordinance of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy dated 2 March 2007 concerning labour market services standards (Dz.U. 2007, Nr 47, Poz. 314).


4. Incorporation of EURES tasks into annual Work Plans of the Labour Market Department and of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy for the years 2007 and 2008.

Incorporation of EURES into 2 internal plans of MPiPS.

MPiPS, DRP MPiPS, DRP Own financial resources of MPIPS

5. Cooperation with representatives of local governments at the voivodeship and poviat level and regional government administration.

Ongoing coordination. MPiPS, DRP MPiPS, DRP Own financial resources of MPIPS

6. Support to EURES staff from PUP and WUP in a form of preparation of different kind of guidelines related to EURES service provision, namely:

- guidelines on keeping EURES job vacancies registers for PUP (April 2007),

- rules on cooperation between Polish PES and foreign private employment agencies (April 2007),

- procedure on international job placement within EURES for Polish employers interested in recruiting from chosen EU/EEA countries (June 2007),

- guidelines on cooperation with graduates sector (January 2008).

4 sets of guidelines. MPiPS, DRP MPiPS, DRP Own financial resources of MPIPS



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Task 2: A clear allocation of staff resources to EURES must be made in the PES at central level and throughout the territory with a clear definition of their respective roles and tasks, with all hierarchy levels in the Public Employment Service knowing and acknowledging the attribution of staff to EURES tasks.



Source of financing

1. Assurance of efficient coordination of EURES activities in Poland by employment in MPiPS in DRP a 5-person team, which has clearly defined tasks in up-dated tasks descriptions.

IT support is provided by IT Department and accountants support is provided by Administration and Budget Office of MPiPS.

EURES tasks service by 5 persons in Labour Market Department, 1-2 persons in IT Department (DI) and 1 person in Administration and Budget Office (BAB).

Polish PES MPiPS, DRP, DI and BAB

Own financial resources of MPIPS

2. Operating in WUP 16 EURES line managers, 38 EURES advisors and 27 EURES assistants.

Operating in PUP approx. 339 EURES assistants.

81 employees of WUP.

Approx. 339 employees of PUP.

WUP and PUP WUP and PUP Own financial resources of WUP and PUP

3. Support of EURES staff in WUP and PUP. Preparation and transfer to directors of WUP and PUP the MPiPS recommendations on range of tasks of EURES adviser and EURES assistant, taking into account specific nature of job in WUP and PUP.

Preparation of 3 sets of recommendations and sending to WUP and PUP:

- Tasks of EURES adviser in WUP,

- Tasks of EURES assistant in WUP,

- Tasks of EURES assistant in PUP.

WUP and PUP MPiPS, DRP Own financial resources of MPIPS

Task 3: The PES shall organise appropriate in-house training of staff dealing with EURES and ensure that EURES is included in in-house training given to all front line staff.



Source of financing



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1. Organization of following trainings:

- 1 annual training for EURES line managers, EURES advisers and EURES assistants from WUP,

- 1 pre-training for candidates for EURES advisers and new EURES assistants from WUP.

61 persons trained during 2 trainings. EURES line managers, EURES advisers and EURES assistants from WUP

MPiPS, DRP Labour Fund as an own contribution to EURES grant agreement 2007/2008

2. Training of employees of PUP, including EURES assistants from all 339 PUP in Poland, as well as employees of all 16 voivodes offices (representatives of the government in regions). Training included, among others, following EURES topics: EURES network and tasks, EURES services for PES clients, standards of service provision, EURES staff tasks and all basic guidelines on EURES from the European Commission and MPiPS.

Training has a form of 8 single trainings in period October-December 2007 and in April 2008.

During 7 trainings, there were 1,547 employees of 339 PUP trained.

During 1 training, there were approx. 50 employees of 16 voivodes offices trained.

Employees of 339 PUP, including EURES assistants.

Employees of 16 voivodes offices.

MPiPS, DRP Labour Fund

Financial resources from Euro-guidance project

3. Organization of EURES staff at regional level trainings for EURES assistants and other employees of WUP and PUP.

4 trainings for other, than EURES staff, employees of WUP (61 trained persons).

24 trainings for EURES assistants from PUP (423 trained persons).

6 trainings for other employees of PUP (181 trained persons).

EURES assistants from PUP.

Employees of WUP (other than EURES staff).

WUP Own financial resources of WUP



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PRIORITY 3 Enhance synergies and improve the profiling of EURES among other networks and information providers in the labour market area, whether at national, Community or international level

Task 1: Based on the established links with PLOTEUS and EUROPASS, closer cooperation mechanisms shall be put in place with other EU networks or instruments such as Euroguidance, the Euro Info Centres, ERACAREERS, Citizens Signpost Europe, Your Europe and TRESS (Training and Reporting on European Social Security).



Source of financing

1. Maintaining on the national EURES website so called „Portale Mobilności” section (“Mobility Websites”) which provides information on proper websites and useful links.

5.3 thousand visits on section “Portale Mobilności” at website www.eures.praca.gov.pl

Unemployed, jobseekers, graduates and others

MPIPS, DRP EURES grant 2007/2008

2. Receiving newsletters from EuroDesk headquarter in Poland. Approx. 6 issues of EuroDesk’s newsletters.

MPiPS EuroDesk -

3. Cooperating with networks that support labour market mobility at national and EU/EEA levels.

1 conference, 2 seminars, 3 information meetings.

Work out and publish 1 thousand leaflets.

PES staff, high schools, universities, employment agencies, Social Security Office, research institutes, Academic Career Centers, Gmina Information Centers, Voluntary Labour Corps, organizations active on labour market

WUP EURES grant 2007/2008



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PRIORITY 4 Enhance the visibility of the services provided by the EURES network, by reinforcing its communication activities

Task 1: Develop and implement a communication strategy aimed at the target groups of EURES (job-seekers, workers, employers), with the involvement where appropriate of the social partners, in order to raise awareness of the opportunities offered by the European labour markets.



Source of financing

1. Development and administration of the national EURES website at www.eures.praca.gov.pl available in 4 language versions (Polish, English, German, French) - consisting of two sections: a public section and a section accessible to the EURES staff through a password.

Approx. 780 thousands visits of the website.

Unemployed, jobseekers, employers and others

MPiPS, DRP EURES grant 2007/2008

2. In order to present an overall approach to EURES information and promotion activities towards unemployed and jobseekers, that are provided by Polish WUP and PUP, statistics from national EURES monitoring data base are presented.

These statistics include all results of EURES information and promotion activities towards unemployed and jobseekers, that are described in this report, and all other activities of these kind, carried out by Polish WUP and PUP as a result of regular PES activities, which were financed from PES own resources and are not mentioned in other parts of this report.

In general there were carried out:

a) About 415.5 thousand contacts with unemployed and jobseekers, out of which:

• 23% on general information,

• 11% on information about living and working conditions,

• 57% information about searching for a job,

• 9% of others,

b) 98.6% contacts with Polish citizens and 1.4% with foreigners - EEA citizens,

Unemployed, jobseekers and others partners on labour market

WUP and PUP EURES grant 2007/2008 and own resources of WUP and PUP



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c) running EURES exhibition stand during 131 job fairs in Poland and 18 job fairs abroad.

3. Promoting EURES services among Polish jobseekers and employers.

92 information meetings and workshops for approx. 2.7 thousand persons.

Participation in 10 jobs fair, where 180 employers took part. Jobs fairs were attended by approx. 12 thousands visitors.

Publishing of 14 press articles and adds, broadcasting of 224 radio spots, organization of 3 radio competitions with prizes (EURES gadgets).

Publishing of approx. 15 thousands regional leaflets and approx. 7 thousands small gadgets.

Unemployed, jobseekers employers and others


4. Up-dating and publishing 40-page brochure under the title Living and working in Poland in English, German and French.

35 thousands brochures. Foreigners from EU/EEA MPiPS, DRP EURES grant 2007/2008

5. Information campaign targeted at Poles leaving to work in EEA countries.

6 seminars, 28 information meetings, 2 conferences, 29 press publications, 80 spots in radio broadcasts, approx. 5 thousands thematic posters and leaflets, approx. 750 small gadgets.

Publishing of 375 thousands leaflets under the title Safe departures for work abroad.

Delivery of information materials to 145 employers and 98 local self-governments.

From above mentioned activities benefited approx. 2.5 thousand persons.

Polish unemployed and jobseekers.

Polish employers and institutions.

WUP and MPiPS, DRP

EURES grant 2007/2008

Own financial resources of MPIPS – Labour Fund



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Task 2: Develop and implement a marketing and communication strategy, stressing the efficiency and the reliability of the network, combining state of the art technologies with a strong human component, using quality standards throughout the network and communicating the free nature of most of the services provided.



Source of financing

1. Drafting and publishing national EURES information materials addressed to different target groups namely graduates, Polish and foreign employers, jobseekers.

Inventing and producing small gadgets.

Dissemination of information materials and small gadgets to WUP and PUP.

Financed from EURES grant 2007/2008:

16.2 thousand info folders,

309.8 thousand leaflets and 8.1 thousand brochures,

59.1 thousand small gadgets.

In the framework of MPiPS Publishing House:

EURES info folders for employers (34 thousands), EURES notes A4 and A5 format (2 thousands), EURES cartoon folders (16.5 thousand), EURES wall calendars 2008 (1.65 thousand), EURES desk calendar 2008 (100 pieces).

Unemployed, jobseekers, graduates, Polish and foreign employers

MPiPS, DRP Labour Fund as an own contribution to EURES grant agreement 2007/2008.

EURES grant 2007/2008.

Own financial resources of MPiPS.

Labour Fund.

2. Organization of seminar under the title: “New EURES Information and Communication Strategy” for EURES staff and PR workers from WUP.

46 persons trained. MPiPS, DRP, WUP MPiPS, DRP EURES grant 2007/2008

3. Providing WUP and PUP clients with access to an Internet-enabled computer for browsing the EURES website. This is an important facility considering limited availability of Internet access among the unemployed.

100% of WUP and 82% of PUP have an Internet-enabled computer available for clients.

Unemployed, jobseekers and other interested individuals

WUP and PUP Own financial resources of WUP and PUP



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PRIORITY 5 Improve significantly the collection of strategic data from the network's daily operations, ensure a proper evaluation of results and provide for a regular monitoring of EURES operations

Task 1: Retrieve systematically strategic data from the network's daily operation, as regards in particular statistical information on mobility flows and the number of successful job placements.



Source of financing

Operation of the national EURES monitoring database, which is updated on a quarterly basis by all WUP and PUP.

Monitoring database enables a complex monitoring of EURES activities at the territory of the whole country. Database is placed on website www.eures.praca.gov.pl in the part accessible with the password.

Collecting 4 time per year a statistic data on EURES activities carried out by Polish labour offices, including those related to number of job placements in recruitment projects carried out by Polish EURES.

MPiPS, WUP and PUP MPiPS, DRP EURES grant 2007/2008

Task 2: Develop appropriate dissemination mechanisms for the retrieved data, in particular towards EURESco and to other relevant stakeholders identified in the individual activity plans of the members.



Source of financing

Using statistics generated by national EURES monitoring database and Regional EURES Job Vacancies Registers in different types of reports prepared during the year for the management of the Ministry, WUP and other institutions.

Publishing annual reports on EURES activities in Poland, that are prepared for the European Commission, on national EURES website.

A dozen or so different types of reports. MPiPS, WUP and other institutions

MPiPS Own financial resources of MPiPS.



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Task 3: With a view to enhancing effectiveness of their actions, all EURES membersshould initiate an external, independent evaluation on the results achieved by EURES in their respective areas of responsibility at least once in the period covered by these guidelines. After consultation of the High Level Strategy Group, EURESco will provide guidelines on a minimal set of questions that shall be common to all these qualitative and quantitative evaluations. In addition, all EURES members shall undertake an evaluation of the activities carried out under the activity plans on an annual basis, and submit the results in their annual reports to EURESco.



Source of financing

Development of an annual report on the implementation of the grant agreement EURES VS/2007/0098 and overall activities implemented by the Polish Public Employment Service in the period from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008.

Annual report on EURES activity in Poland in the period from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008.

EURESco MPIPS, DRP Own financial resources of MPiPS.

Task 5: EURES managers should ensure that all their organisations' EURES advisers regularly provide the data asked for in the required EURES advisers monthly report and use the tools therefore provided by EURESco. Participation in this monthly report is a prerequisite to be part of the network. EURES managers should regularly check the quality of the data provided by the EURES advisers.



Source of financing

In the period April 2007 - March 2008 Polish EURES Advisors and EURES Assistants from WUP have produced and inputted EURES monthly reports into the database designated by EURESco. WUP were instructed, in writing, about necessity of reporting to the EC.

It is important to mention that there are communication problems with EURES portal www.eures.europa.eu administrator in the field of up-dating numbers of EURES advisers and EURES assistants, who are obliged to deliver monthly reports. The average response ratio of Polish EURES advisers for EURES monthly reports to the EC amounts to 79.46 %. This ratio is

In the period April 2007 - March 2008, there were 38 EURES Advisors and 27 EURES Assistants employed in WUP in Poland.

The average response ratio of Polish EURES advisers for obligatory EURES monthly reports to the EC amounted to 79.46 %.

There were 4 EURES advisers on long-

EURESco WUP -



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higher in reality because 4 Polish EURES advisers are on long-term leaves and do not fill in monthly reports. Despite the fact that they are not working in the offices, they are counted by the EURES portal as an active persons. The Ministry has informed the EURES portal administrator about necessity of removal of not active EURES advisers from monthly reports database, but there is still no reaction.

term leaves.

Task 6: Periodically, EURES members shall supply EURESco with figures on the number of customers seeking advice on their national EURES web-pages and the related job databanks.



Source of financing

Running EURES national website www.eures.praca.gov.pl

For more information, see – Priority 4, Task 1, Point 1.

About 780 thousands visits on the website. See – Priority 4, Task 1, Point 1.

MPiPS, DRP EURES grant 2007/2008



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PRIORITY 6 In addition to the overall provision of information, establish, where needed, more systematic contacts with specific groups of stakeholders

Task 1: All EURES members and partners shall offer mobility-related services which are specifically geared to employers' needs. This requires an analysis of the relevant labour market and a differentiated approach to various sectors and sizes of enterprises. Procedures should be compared (data must be accessible and comparable throughout the network), statistical reports and websites should be analysed, and bottlenecks should be identified.



Source of financing

1. In order to obtain an overall approach to recruitment activities carried out by Polish WUP and PUP for foreign and Polish employers within the EURES framework, there are quoted total data from national EURES monitoring database.

These data include all recruitment results mentioned in this report together with all results of similar nature (recruitment), that were executed by Polish WUP and PUP in regular activities and which were financed from own recourses of Polish PES but are not mentioned in other parts of this report.

Foreign employers:

Number of foreign job vacancies (not doubled) registered in “Register of EURES job offers of WUP” (served by WUP in co-operation with PUP) – 22.4 thousand.

Number of Polish CVs transferred abroad – 19.1 thousand.

Number of Poles employed by foreign employers (confirmed) – 2.753 persons.

Polish employers:

Number of Polish job vacancies registered in “Register of EURES job offers of WUP” (served by WUP in co-operation with PUP) – 925.

Number of foreign CVs received by WUP – 31.

Number of foreigners employed by Polish employers – 0.

Foreign and Polish employers.

Unemployed and jobseekers.

WUP and PUP Own financial resources of WUP and PUP.




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2. Preparing and carrying out individual recruitment projects for foreign employers.

33 recruitment projects (incl. events of both recruitment and information nature) for foreign employers.

4.224 foreign job vacancies received. 1.925 CVs sent to employers for these job vacancies.

Moreover EURES staff attended 13 job fairs and job exchanges and participated in about 57 meetings with foreign EURES advisers, foreign employers’ representatives and local authorities.

Number of persons employed – 312.

Foreign employers from the EEA.

Polish job seekers.


3. The 3rd International Job Fairs in Lublin.

Job Fairs were combined with job interviews with employers from the EEA and presentations about living and working conditions in chosen EEA countries.

About 1 thousand job vacancies in total were presented.

9 foreign employers and 9 EURES advisers took part in the job fairs.

7 presentation about living and working conditions in chosen EEA countries for about 280 persons were delivered.

About 6.3 thousand persons have visited the job fairs.

Number of employed persons after event is not known.

Jobseekers from lubelski region and from other Polish regions, foreign employers from the UK, Ireland, Finland, Norway and the Czech Republic

WUP in Lublin EURES grant 2007/2008.

Own financial resources of WUP in Lublin.



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4. European Fairs for Entrepreneurship, Employment and Education in Katowice.

The Fairs were combined with job interviews with employers from the EEA and presentations about living and working conditions in chosen EEA countries.

There were 79 exhibitors from 8 countries, out of which 26 from PUP, 7 EURES advisers from the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain, Norway, Slovakia and the UK, 17 Polish and foreign employers, 19 training and education institutions, 10 institutions supporting entrepreneurship.

Over 3.1 thousand job vacancies were presented.

Over 114 persons took part in workshops and presentations, including those on living and working conditions.

About 4 thousands persons have visited the fairs.

In order to promote the event, there were produced 4.5 thousand EURES leaflets and 3 thousands leaflets, 100 posters about the fairs. In media there were 4 articles published.

Number of employed persons after event is not known.

Jobseekers from śląski region and from other Polish regions, persons interested in self-employment and increasing vocational skills, employers from Poland and from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, France and Finland

WUP in Katowice


Own financial resources of WUP in Katowice.



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5. European Job Days in Poznań.

Job Days were combined with job interviews with employers from the EEA and presentations about living and working conditions in chosen EEA countries.

There were about 1,136 job vacancies presented by the exhibitors, in case of which job interviews were held. In total there were 426 job interviews held.

25 foreign and Polish employers took part in the event together with 15 foreign EURES advisers.

There were 11 presentations held about living and working conditions in chosen countries for about 400 persons.

Workshop for about 50 persons was held.

About 2 thousands persons have visited the event.

Number of persons employed after Job Days – 138.

Jobseekers from wielkopolski region and from other Polish regions, foreign employers from the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia and the Netherlands.

WUP in Poznań EURES grant 2007/2008.

Own financial resources of WUP in Poznań.



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6. International Job Exchange in Gdańsk. 19 foreign employers and 9 foreign EURES advisers took part in the job exchange.

There were 891 CVs transferred to employers as a response for foreign job vacancies. There were 357 job interviews held during job exchange.

7 presentations about living and working conditions and safe job search abroad in chosen EU countries were held. About 250 persons took part in the presentations.

About 3 thousands persons have visited the event.

Number of employed persons after job exchange is not known.

Jobseekers from pomorski region and from other Polish regions, foreign employers.

WUP in Gdańsk


Own financial resources of WUP in Gdańsk.



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7. International Job Exchanges in Poznań (two) and in Konin (one).

International Job Exchange in Poznań

90 job vacancies were received, out of which 70 job vacancies from Spanish employer and 20 from the Danish one. There were 315 CVs in total transferred to employers, out of which 185 CVs to Spanish employer and 130 CVs to the Danish one.

Job interviews were organised for 79 candidates.

There were 4 presentations held about living and working in Spain and in Denmark.

There were 35 persons in total employed.

International Job Exchange in Konin

Spanish employers offered in total over 300 job vacancies. About 140 persons have attended the job interviews for seasonal job - picking strawberries and 124 out of 140 have singed job contracts.

There were 5 candidates interested in job offer for electricians and bus drivers. 2 electricians have signed job contracts.

Jobseekers from wielkopolski region and from other Polish regions, employers from Spain, Denmark and Finland.

WUP in Poznań EURES grant 2007/2008.

Own financial resources of WUP in Poznań.



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International Job Exchange in Poznań

14 job vacancies were received from 3 Finnish employers. There were 105 CVs transferred to Finnish employers. There were 28 candidates invited for job interviews.

Only one company has informed about employment of 3 persons.

There was 1 presentation held about living and working conditions in Finland for about 60 persons.

About 200 persons have visited the event.

Task 3: More systematic contacts shall, likewise, be established with specific groups of clients, in order to improve the nature and the quality of the services, according to their needs. This applies in particular to the organisations of the social partners as key stakeholders. Other possible priority target groups for future co-operation activities include self-employed workers, trainees, older workers as well as local and regional authorities.



Source of financing



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1. Co-operation with Polish employers and employers’ organisations carried out by WUP and PUP.

In order to obtain an overall approach to information activities, that were carried out by Polish WUP and PUP within EURES for Polish employers, there are quoted total data from national EURES monitoring database.

These data include all results of information activities for Polish employers mentioned in this report together with all results of similar nature, that were executed by Polish WUP and PUP in regular activities and which were financed from own recourses of Polish PES but are not mentioned in other parts of this report.

12.7 thousand contacts with Polish employers.

389 contacts with Polish employers’ organisations.

Employers and employers’ organisations from Poland




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2. Cooperating with labour market actors, disseminating the EURES services and promoting EURES image.

Organisation of:

- 21 meetings with employers or jobseekers, attended by about 395 persons,

- 2 seminars: “Danish Day. Living and working conditions in Denmark” and “European Labour Market. EURES services” attended by about 91 persons,

- 5 meetings for PES’ personnel, attended by about 55 persons.

Participation in 16 job fairs and job exchanges (also of cross-border nature). About 50 exhibitors and about 8.5 thousand visitors are estimated to have attended the fair.

Relations were established with about 700 labour market partners (also by sending promotional materials about EURES).

5 radio programmes were broadcast, followed by 20 radio advertisements promoting EURES events and 8 publicity articles were published in the press.

There were 2.9 thousand thematic leaflets, posters and stickers as well as 1.8 thousand of small gadgets produced.

A brochure Welcome back in Poland was printed – 1 thousand items and a guide for employers EURES services – manual for employers – 500 items.

Employers, unemployed, jobseekers, students, pupils, PES and high schools staff


3. Co-operation of WUP and PUP with external institutions – labour market partners.

83.2 thousand contacts with Gmina Information Centres, High Schools, Academic Career Offices, Voluntary Labour Corps, Trade Unions, Employment Agencies, Training Institutions, NGOs and others

Staff of organisations mentioned on the left.

WUP and PUP Own financial recourses of WUP and PUP



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Task 4: Instilling a mobility culture for the working population requires moreover developing appropriate actions for younger workers, taking account of the successful schemes developed in the education and training area at national and European levels.



Source of financing

1. Co-operation with high schools and academic career centres, that are operating in high schools.

2.6 thousand contacts Youth, students, graduates WUP and PUP Own financial recourses of WUP and PUP

2. Developing brochures and leaflets for graduates and dissemination among WUP and PUP.

Information about above mentioned materials is included in the description of priority 4, task 2, point 2.

Brochure for graduates – “EURES – Your job in Europe.” (8 pages) – 8.1 thousands items.

Leaflet for graduates – “EURES – Your job in Europe.” – 16.5 thousand items.

Brochure for graduates about traineeships – “Apprenticeship and traineeship in Europe.” – 8.1 thousand items.

Youth, students, graduates MPiPS, DRP Labour Fund as an own contribution to EURES grant agreement 2007/2008

3. Taking into account structure of activities description in EURES grant agreement 2007/2008, it is difficult to select information activities for youth – pupils, students and graduates. Such an activities are diffused in whole Annual Report of EURES Network Activity in Poland 1 April 2007 – 31 March 2008, part II and are included into description of activities carried out for unemployed and jobseekers.

- Youth, students, graduates WUP EURES grant 2007/2008



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PRIORITY 7 Improve transparency in information prov ision within the respective employment markets, in particular with a view to ensuring that international placements comply with relevant labour standards

Task 1: In providing their overall information and placement services, EURES members and partners shall ensure that the network is recognized as facilitating international placements in conformity with the applicable labour standards in the country of employment and thereby contributes to combat social dumping and exploitation of workers (this requirement has become all the more important since the 2004 accession of ten new member States).



Source of financing

WUP and PUP are obliged to provide EURES services according to the valid standard, that is in agreement with Polish legislation, namely with the Ordinance of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy dated 2 March 2007 concerning labour market services standards (Dz.U. 2007, Nr 47, Poz. 314).

- Polish PES clients WUP and PUP Own financial recourses of WUP and PUP

Task 2: With regard to transitional measures in place after the accession of new Member States, it is important that EURES continues to provide up to date and easily understandable practical information to job seekers and employers on how to deal with such restrictions and at the same time contributes to inform the public opinion and policy makers on the benefits of reducing and eliminating such restrictions.



Source of financing



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1. Since 17 January 2007 Poland does not apply any transitional periods in access to Polish labour market towards citizens of the EU/EEA and Switzerland. It means that citizens of these countries do not need work permit in Poland.

Proper information to EURESco was pass on by the MPiPS.

The Ordinance of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy dated 10 January 2007 concerning a repeal of the Ordinance concerning restrictions in performing a job by foreigners at the territory of the Republic of Poland (Dz. U. 2007, Nr 7, poz. 54).

Citizens of the EU/EEA and Switzerland

MPIPS -

Task 3: The development of services within and by the network should be fully in line with increased transparency in information provision within the respective employment markets and with commonly agreed quality standards.



Source of financing

There were proper legal regulations applied in a field of conditions of providing labour market services by Polish PES, which secure transparency in access to all job vacancies advertised by PUP.

According to § 7.1 of the Ordinance of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy dated 2 March 2007 concerning detailed conditions of providing labour market services by the Public Employment Services (Dz.U.2007, Nr 47, Poz. 315), PUP is obliged to transfer all its job vacancies to internet job offer data base that is run by Minister of Labour.

These job vacancies are then transferred to EURES portal of the EC and are accessible to all EU/EEA citizens.

Jobseekers in the EU/EEA Polish PES Own financial recourses of MPiPS



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PRIORITY 8 Improve the quality of information chann elled through the network, and in particular of the job vacancies advertised by the Public Employment Services.

Task 1: Taking account of the generalised EU-wide access to their published vacancies as a result of the common vacancies platform launched in 2006, all EURES members and partners shall actively contribute to the regular provision and updating of the number of vacancies available, and cooperate to improve the quality of the information provided.



Source of financing

1. Ensure efficient operation and maintenance in adequate quality of Polish IT systems – “PULS”, “BEZROBOTNI” and “RUBIKOM+” that are integrated with EURES IT system.

Operating of 3 integrated IT systems PUP and Polish employers MPIPS, DI Own financial resources of MPIPS

2. Work on preparation of efficient integration the job vacancies data base on EURES portal www.eures.europa.eu with newly created Polish job vacancies data base of labour offices i.e. “Central Job Vacancies Database” .

Co-operation between Polish Bonair company, that was commissioned by MPiPS and IBM Belgium company, that was commissioned by the EC.

Modification of the data base draft project.

New database will be fully implemented in the 4th quarter of 2008.

Polish employers, unemployed and jobseekers

MPiPS, DRP and DI

Own financial resources of MPIPS

Task 2: All EURES members and partners must ensure that persons accessing their web sites are also informed in a sufficiently visible way about the possibilities to have easy and continuous access to information on vacancies published by the other EURES members and partners of the network.



Source of financing



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The EURES logo or a EURES section was placed in the main websites of MPiPS, on the portals of the Polish PES and WUP.

Aspiration for placing the EURES logo or a EURES section in the main websites of PUP.

EURES section was placed on following websites:

www.mpips.gov.pl

www.psz.praca.gov.pl

Link to national EURES website are placed on websites of all 16 WUP and 300 (out of 339) PUP.

Unemployed, jobseekers employers and others


Task 3: In order to further enhance the quality (accurateness of the description, comparability) of the job vacancies advertised by the Public Employment Services, EURES members shall cooperate to develop quality standards and, wherever possible, quality control mechanisms for this type of information.



Source of financing

DRP in MPiPS has initiated creation of and coordinates work of Ad-Hoc Working Group of EURES Job Vacancies Handling. The group is working under supervision of the EC.

As a result of work of this group there will be created quality standard of job vacancies handling within international recruitment projects for employers.

Standard will be then recommended by the EC to be applied by the member states of the EU/EEA.

In the middle of doing. PES from the EU/EEA MPiPS, DRP in co-operation with the EC and 13 EU/EEA countries

Own financial resources of MPiPS.




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PRIORITY 9 Contribute to identifying labour shortag es and bottlenecks which can be attenuated by trans-national labour mobility, including the possibility of broadening the scope of information provision to workers coming from other parts of the world.

Task 2: Trans-national mobility activities should be developed on the basis of proper data as regards identified trends and future prospects of the labour market.



Source of financing

1. International activities for removal of obstacles to labour market mobility.

- 4 conferences and 2 seminars were held devoted to, inter alia, the issues of chances, potential and development perspectives on the labour market in chosen EEA countries, perspectives on the cross-border labour market and employee mobility. In both events about 276 persons took part.

- A brochure on living and working conditions in Poland was prepared in Czech and German – 1,43 thousand items.

- A brochure entitled “The Labour Market of the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship” was prepared and published in 1 thousand copies.

- Study of oversupply and shortage of labour force in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship was conducted. The results of the study were published in English in 100 copies.

- A guide on the living and working conditions in the Mazowsze region for foreigners – citizens of EEA countries was prepared in English – 1 thousand items.

- A website devoted to cross-border cooperation within the framework of EURES in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship was created;

- A series of informational meetings of EURES personnel with labour market partners were held.

Employers, jobseekers (also in the borderland), students, local authorities, PUP and Gmina Information Centres employees and other labour market partners

WUP in Wałbrzych, Warsaw, Opole, Rzeszów, Białystok, Gdańsk, Olsztyn and Szczecin




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2. International activities for removal of “bottlenecks” on the European labour market.

In total 17 Polish EURES representatives attended following events abroad: 6 international job fairs, 2 seminars, 1 recruitment project, 2 information days and 1 intervention visit.

There were about 200 employers from the EEA who participated in above mentioned events.

Polish EURES staff delivered about 12 presentations and informed about living and working in Poland about 300 jobseekers and employers from the EEA.

In the framework of this activity, about 364 job vacancies were received. Due to lack of feedback from foreign employers it is difficult to estimate exact number of Polish persons employed.

There were also 7 job vacancies from 4 Polish employers received for jobseekers from abroad (the EEA).

Jobseekers, unemployed, employers, and PES from the EEA

WUP in Wałbrzych, Olsztyn, Gdańsk, Białystok, Łódź, Kraków, Poznań and Toruń




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3. “Irish Job Fairs” in Toruń. The job fairs were attended by 6 employers, 2 EURES advisers, 1 line manager, 4 representatives from the institutions from Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Employers presented 20 job offers for 77 vacancies. The job fairs were visited by about 800 Polish jobseekers.

Irish EURES adviser has collected about 500 CVs.

There were 8 presentations held about living and working in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

There were 100 posters, 1 banner, 1 thousand information brochures produced.

Promotion campaign was organized in local media and in public transport means. There were announcements advertised in press – 6 issues, in radio – 18 broadcasts and 50 posters were hang in public transport means.

Jobseekers and unemployed particularly from kujawsko-pomorskie region

WUP in Toruń EURES grant 2007/2008.

Own financial recourses of WUP in Toruń.

4. “Danish-Finnish Day” in Warsaw. The event was attended by 5 Finnish employers, 2 Danish employers and 3 Danish Employment Agencies. There were also Polish, Danish and Finnish EURES advisers and Finnish EURES manager, who took part in the event as well as representatives of Danish Embassy in Poland.

About 100 foreign job vacancies were received from above mentioned countries. There were 5 presentations held about living and working conditions in Denmark and Finland, which were attended by 150 persons.

The event was visited by about 1.5 thousand persons.

Jobseekers, unemployed from mazowiecki region and other individuals, who were interested in taking job in Denmark and Finland as well as Danish and Finnish employers

WUP in Warsaw


Own financial recourses of WUP in Warsaw.



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5. International Information Day “Work without Borders” in Szczecin.

The event was attended by 5 employers and 7 EURES advisers from abroad. There were 8 job offers for 86 vacancies received. As a result of announcement of the job offers, there were 34 CVs received. Job interviews were held with 34 candidates. Till the end of March 2008 no feedback from employers about job placements was received.

4 presentation was held about living and working in Germany, Ireland, Norway and the UK. In presentations 40 persons took part.

100 posters and 500 small gadgets were produced for the event. 1 press advertisement was published.

The event was visited by over 100 persons.

Unemployed, jobseekers and workers, pupils, students, graduates and others interested in work abroad, mainly from zachodniopomorskie region

WUP in Szczecin


Own financial recourses of WUP in Szczecin.



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PRIORITY 10 Reinforce the development of cross-border activities in the employment area, and encourage, where needed, the development of cross-border activities and partnerships between the 'newer' EU Member States, or between 'older' and 'newer' Member States.

Task 1: EURES members should set specific objectives for the further development of cross-border labour markets and actively involve the EURES cross-border partnerships for which they are responsible in the definition and development of these objectives and relevant activities. Where appropriate, EURES members should support the development of additional EURES cross-border partnerships, particularly between the Member States that have joined the EU in 2004, or between the 'older' and 'newer' Member States. These developments shall be carried out in accordance with the common rules and criteria for existing and new EURES cross-border partnerships provided by the handbook on EURES crossborder activities.

Carried out activities and quantitative results Beneficiaries Institution,


Source of financing

1. Activities in favour of creation of new EURES cross-border partnership “ EURES TriRegio”.

EURES personnel from the Wałbrzych WUP participated in 5 preparatory meetings and sittings of Crossborder EURES Working Group of (CEWG) “EURES TriRegio” with the participation of representatives of PES and social partners from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. Two of the above-mentioned meetings and sittings of CEWG were organised in Poland by the Wałbrzych WUP. The meetings were conducive to the performance of numerous tasks that led to submitting an application for recognising “EURES TriRegio” partnership to the EC. The activities involved:

- Devising a model of financial flows in the framework of the planned partnership;

- Devising a Development Strategy for the years 2008-2010 and an application for a EURES grant for the period 2008-2009 for “EURES TriRegio;”

- Updating the feasibility study;

- Preparing and signing the framework agreement;

- Choosing the name for the partnership: “EURES TriRegio;”

- Appointing members of the Steering Committee and the Presidium, the appointment of the Coordinator was agreed upon.

As a result of the above-mentioned activities, the German party submitted an application to the EC on recognising the “EURES TriRegio” partnership.

Partners of planned “EURES TriRegio”

WUP in Wałbrzych in co-operation with Czech and German partners


Own financial recourses of WUP in Wałbrzych.



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2. Activities in favour of creation of new EURES cross-border partnership “ EURES T Beskydy”.

EURES personnel from the Katowice WUP and Opole participated, in total, in 7 meetings in Poland and abroad with the participation of representatives of PES and social partners from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia devoted to preparations for establishing the “EURES T Beskydy” partnership. Two meetings were organized by the Katowice WUP in Poland.

Full documentation and an application to the EC on recognising the “EURES T Beskydy” partnership were prepared in the framework of the above-mentioned activities. The activities involved:

- Agreeing on the choice of an institution managing the budget of the planned partnership;

- Devising a Development Strategy for the years 2008-2010 and an application for a EURES grant for the period 2008-2009;

- Preparing and signing the framework agreement.

As a result of the above-mentioned activities, the Slovak party submitted an application to the EC on recognising the “EURES T Beskydy” partnership.

Partners of planned “EURES Beskydy”

WUP in Katowice and Opole in co-operation with Czech and Slovak partners


Own financial recourses of WUP in Katowice and Opole.

3. Activities in favour of creation of new EURES cross-border partnership “ EURES T Odra-Oder”.

EURES personnel from MPiPS participated in the meeting of Preparatory Committee of the cross-border initiative “EURES T Odra-Oder”. The meeting was attended by the representatives of PES and social partners from Poland and Germany. During the meeting issues connected with the status of preparations to establishing the partnership and submitting an appropriate application to the EC were discussed.

MPiPS presented its stance on the issue and did not support submitting the application to the EC in 2008, similar to the German ZAV. There is no up-dated feasibility study or data on the number of borderland employees. Limitations as to the access to the German labour market are also an obstacle. It was agreed that further cooperation should be continued by implementing joint cross-border activities in the framework of national EURES grants of Poland and Germany and formal EURES T partnership would be established later on.

Partners of planned “EURES Odra-Oder”

MPiPS, DRP EURES grant 2007/2008.



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Source of financing

4. Disseminating information about EURES services among the unemployed, jobseekers and employers from all Polish regions bordering with the EU states.

Data comes from Polish EURES monitoring database.

6.4 thousand contacts from the Polish unemployed and jobseekers interested in foreign jobs in border regions

278 contacts from foreign nationals from border regions who were interested in finding employment in the border regions of Poland

174 contacts from Polish employers from border regions who were interested in employing foreign nationals from border regions

256 contacts from foreign employers from border regions who were interested in employing Polish nationals in the border region

1.2 thousand contacts from the unemployed and jobseekers for information about living and working conditions in border regions

Unemployed, jobseekers and employers from the border regions of Poland and of neighbouring the EU states

WUP and PUP

Own financial resources of WUP and PUP



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III. PARTICIPATION IN EURES INITIAL TRAINING AND AD VANCED TRAINING

In the period of April 2007 till March 2008 EURES staff were participating in the following trainings organized by the European Commission:

1. “EURES Initial Training - 2007”:

- conference on 7-8 June 2007 in Sevilla (7 persons);

2. “EURES Initial Training - 2008”:

- training on 11-15 February 2008 in Amsterdam (2 persons);

- training on 7-11 April 2008 in Munich (1 person);

- training on 21-25 April 2008 in Valencia (2 persons).

Poland obtained the EC permission for the financing from EURES grant 2007/2008 travel costs of 3 persons who attended trainings “EURES Initial Training – 2008” in April 2008. The permission was granted because expenditures for purchase of plane tickets were spent in I quarter 2008.

3. “EURES Advanced Training - 2007” for EURES advisors (standard):

- training on 4-6 July 2007 in Madrid (3 persons);

- training on 11-13 July 2007 in Barcelona (1 person);

- training on 3-5 October 2007 in Berlin (3 persons).

4. “EURES Advanced Training - 2007” for EURES advisors (specialized):

- training on social security on 15-16 November 2007 in Madrid (1 person) and on 3-4 December in Valencia (1 person);

- training on project management on 3-4 December 2007 in Berlin (2 persons);

- training on cooperation with employers and graduates on 15-16 November 2007 in Brussels (2 persons).

5. “EURES Advanced Training – 2007” for EURES Managers and EURES line managers: - training on 22-23 October 2007 in Budapest (3 persons).

IV. PARTICIPATION IN THE EURES WORKING PARTY AND OT HER ACTIVITIES INITIATED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

EURES Manager participated in such meetings as:

- EURES Working Party, which took place on 31 May - 1 June 2007 in Bonn and on 19-20 November in Lisbon;

- EURES Working Party combined with the annual meeting of EURES T representatives, which took place on 12-14 September 2007 in Prague. The meeting was also attended by an EURES advisor from the Wałbrzych WUP.

- Ad-hoc Working Group on EURES Job Vacancies Handling which took place on 4 February 2008 in Brussels.

A MPiPS expert took part in the EURES Working Party - as a replacement of EURES Manager - which took place on 20 February 2008 in Brussels.

In addition:

- the EURES finance expert from MPiPS took part in the training on the management of the EURES grant which took place on 24 October 2007 in Brussels;

- a MPiPS expert took part in the EURES Working Group for training which took place on 23 January 2008 in Brussels;

- a MPiPS expert took part in two meetings of the Working Group for support and promotion of EURES IT platform which took place on 3 October 2007 and 12 March 2007 in Brussels.



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V. SUMMARY

Period April 2007 – March 2008 was the first year of the implementation of the European Commission's new EURES Guidelines 2007 - 2010 by Polish Public Employment Services.

Including EURES activities in appropriate strategic plans of Polish PES and in national law regulations, allows to fully integrate EURES services with other services provided by Polish labour offices. EURES is one of 5 basic services provided by labour offices, apart from job placement, vocational counselling, support in active job looking and trainings organisation.

In above mentioned period, national trainings were organised for employees of voivodeship and poviat labour offices. However this filed needs more support, particularly for poviat labour offices.

EURES staff, including EURES line managers and EURES advisers, took part in EURES Initial and Advanced Trainings, organised by the European Commission. It led to increase the level of qualifications and gain experience in international environment.

Information delivered by national EURES website www.eures.praca.gov.pl was a crucial element (about 780 thousands visitors).

In 2008 the works on Central Job Vacancies Data Base of Polish PES will be finished. which will result in quality improvement of the transfer of Polish employers’ job offers, that are advertised by Polish poviat labour offices, to the EURES portal of the EC www.eures.europa.eu.

There were several promotion and information activities carried out for Polish unemployed and jobseekers as well for employers. Information and promotion materials, that were issued, were used in many activities. One of the important activities was publishing the brochure under the title Living and Working Conditions in Poland which was issued in three languages.

There were 4 international job fairs, 4 international employment exchanges, several information days, like Danish - Finnish Day, organised in Poland, that attracted many thousands of people. There were also many conferences, seminars, workshops, information meetings and other regional or local events organised.

The EURES staff handled about 22.4 thousand of foreign job vacancies and this led to the recruitment of 2,753 Polish jobseekers abroad. The real number of job placement is much higher but Polish PES is not able to receive the exact data from the foreign employers.

In Poland we can observe increasing interest of Polish employers in recruiting EU citizens: about 1 thousand vacancies were passed on by Polish employers to Polish EURES. These vacancies were handled by Polish EURES advisers. Unfortunately there was a little interest from EU citizens (about 30 foreign CVs were received) and, in fact, any foreign employee was employed.

There is a need for intensification of activities aimed at attracting Polish citizens who are working abroad, to come back to Poland and take up the job in Poland. That is why there is a raising attendance of Polish EURES advisers in foreign job fairs, whose task is to interest both foreigners and Poles - who live on emigration - with coming to Poland. The activities to create the two EURES-T partnerships: EURES-T Beskydy and EURES-TriRegio were finalized. One of them: EURES-T Beskydy has been officially recognized by the EC in the first quarter of 2008. Within the framework of EURES more activities every year are organized. The situation at national labour market has been changing recently in a way that combines a decrease in unemployment (unemployment rate at the end of May 2008 was 10.5 %) and problems of Polish employers who must face labour shortages at domestic labour market. This situation leads to the necessity of adjusting Polish EURES services to the needs of domestic labour market. Therefore the EURES activities for next period 2008/2009 are planned in a way to meet changing needs of Polish labour market.



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