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Second Application Round Events

3 July 2008

ESEP Ltd will be holding workshops in late July 2008 to provide information and advice on the Second Application Round and to introduce the new UROSYS on-line system.

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Announcement of Community Planning Partnership (CPP) awards

16 June 2008

On Friday 6 June 2008, John Swinney agreed the following allocations of ESF and ERDF monies to the successful CPP bids, submitted in the first round of the LUPS Programmes.

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First Application Round Appeals

16 June 2008

First round applicants should note that the last date for lodging an appeal has now passed.

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Publicity

28 May 2008

The new logos for the 2007-2013 programme are now available for download.

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Further Information : Lisbon Agenda

The Lisbon European Council in March 2000 agreed a new strategic goal for the EU in order to strengthen employment, economic reform and social cohesion as part of a knowledge-based economy.

The EU set itself a new strategic goal for the subsequent decade: to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. This is known as the Lisbon Agenda, or Lisbon Strategy. The Lisbon Agenda has three key elements to increase competitiveness of the European Union:

The Lisbon Agenda invited the European Commission and the Member States to further integrate aspects of equal opportunities in employment policies, including reducing occupational segregation and helping to reconcile working and family life. The Lisbon Council set quantitative targets for achieving gender equality in economic life, such as that of raising women's employment rate in the EU. They stress the importance of fostering and mainstreaming ways of giving women equal access to the knowledge-based economy.

Further information can be found on the European Commission's website Growth and Jobs

Gothenburg Strategy

The environmental dimension of the Lisbon Agenda was added at an EU-level European Summit held in Gothenburg in June 2001. This placed a new emphasis on the protection of the environment and the achievement of a more sustainable pattern of development. The aim is 'to decouple environmental degradation and resource consumption from economic and social development by 2010.

The main priorities of the Gothenburg Strategy are:

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