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THE EURES NETWORK

EURES (EURopean Employment Services) ) is a European public services network which was officially inaugurated by the European Commission in November 1994.

Network serving European citizens, EURES offers three kinds of services :

                                    information,
                                   advice,
                                   job seeking.

Its purpose is to inform, to orientate and to give advice to the people looking for training or looking for a job in Europe. EURES also gives information to the employers looking for workforce and willing to broaden their recruitment field beyond their national borders.

EURES offers three services on the territories of the 17 European Economic Space member States (15 from the European Union, plus Norway and Iceland).

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The Cross-border EURES

Well before EURES was conceived, one of the first concerns cross-border workers had was professional mobility. Always having to face legislation juxtaposition and different habits, they lacked and still need information and advice on the particularities of the neighbouring country.

It is to respond to this necessity that the Commission, under the stimulus of trade-unions, has created the Cross-border EURES structures. The first structure created groups Hainaut (B), Nord-Pas-de-Calais (F), Western  Flanders (B) and Kent (UK).

Cross-border EURES have several characteristics:

1. Wide cooperation between employment public services, economic and social partners and local authorities

2. Local and voluntary cooperation, focused on specific employment sectors with important cross-border work-force flows or areas that have an important potential for these flows

3. 4 missions :

information of the life and working conditions
diffuse work offers and demands
job planned and agreed management
professional training information
exchange

Cross-border EURES are concentration platforms allowing to make more in-depth  considerations on the problems of the labour market.

At present, there are 20 Cross-border EURES :

1.H.N.F.K. : Hainaut (B) / Nord-Pas-de-Calais (F) / West-Vlaanderen (B) / Kent (UK)

11. EUREGIO / Rhein-Waal/ Rhein-Maas-Nord (D, NL)

2. IGA I : Prov. West-Vlaanderen, Antwerpen en Limburg (B) / Zeeland, Noord-Brabant en Zuid-Limburg (NL)

12. INTERALP : Bayern (D)/Vorarlberg-Tirol-Salzburg-Oberösterreich (A)

3. EUREGIO Gronau / Enschede : District Twente, Oost-Gelderland (NL)/Districten Münster und Weser-Ems (D)

13. Ems-Dollart  (D, NL)

4. IGA II : Provinces du Limbourg et de Liège (B) / Zuid-Limburg (NL) / Aachen (D)

14. PYREMED/PIRIME (E, F)

5. PED : Lorraine (F) / Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (L) / Province de Luxembourg (B)

15. Northern Ireland / Bordercountries of the Rep. Of Ireland (IRL, UK)

6. SLLR: Lorraine (F) / Saar/Rheinland-Pfalz (D) / Luxembourg (L)

16. TransTirolia (A, I)

7. EURAZUR : Provence, Alpes, Côte d'Azur (F) / Liguria (I)

17. ØRESUND (DK, S)

8. TRANSALP : Piemonte, Valle d'Aosta (I) / Rhône-Alpes (F)

18. Galicia/Região Norte (E, P)

9. Schleswig-Sønderjylland (D, DK)

19. Oberrhein (D, F)

10. EURALP : Kärnten (A) / Friuli-Venezia Giulia (I)

20. Tornedalen (S, FIN)

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