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Programme ERASMUS + Description: The world is changing, the way we work is changing and also the way we search for a new job is changing. Strategies, tools and skills required, used and needed have suffered a massive evolution in last years, especially in this period of economic crisis. This fact is remarkable in sectors such as first job searchers, long-term unemployed or lowed skills adults looking for a reinsertion in the labor market. And obviously, this has affected the working world, independently of the field we are referring to. Job searchers and counselors are obligedto develop new skills and strategies for a new market. EMOTIONAL EMPLOYMENT project provides significant added value in comparison to complementary and previous projects and literature, as it is clearly oriented towards traditionaltarget groups but with a new perspective: counselors and job searchers or entrepreneurs -especially the young ones in their first business projects. Target: Counsellors in emotion Job searchers Other stakeholders, job centres, training centres, career advisors, social workers, citizens, employers Outputs: Counselors in emotions Right emotions, right jobs. Partners: Merseyside Expanding Horizons – UK (Coordinator) Aproximar – Portugal I and F Education and Development - Ireland Diamond Building - Spain Defoin - Spain Centrul Pentru Promovarea Invatarii Permanente – Romania For more information: Anna Bellan: annabellan@expandinghorizons.co.uk www.emotional-employment.eu

Description New Horizons is a specifically designed and fully integrated programme of support which will improve the employability of 1950 people who are unemployed or economically inactive. Specifically, those experiencing specific barriers to training, education and employment opportunities e.g. BAME, disabled, people living with specific health conditions and people who have multiple and complex needs. New Horizons will: engage over 1950 beneficiaries to develop their confidence and self-esteem; support 331 people into training and education; enable 565 economically inactive people to participate in active job search or into employment, support 312 unemployed people to find employment, including selfemployment on leaving; support 585 people into employment, including self-employment 6 months after leaving the project; connect them to volunteering, specific job and job trail opportunities; connect them to other support programmes e.g. Households into Work, Enterprise Hub, Ways to Work ILM, Apprenticeships, AEB Provision, Building Better Opportunities – Better Off Finance and Digital Projects; assist 98 people with childcare needs by offering them childcare support. Objectives The programme has been designed to address a number of specific problems: - Bespoke support for individuals with specific difficulty and often multiple barriers to the labour market caused by health and personal circumstances. - Provide necessary skills and ability to access labour market opportunities to Unemployed and Economically Inactive to secure and remain in employment - Provide additional and more intensive development support, for those individuals who are unemployed and economically inactive people to complement mainstream Adult Learning and Employment Support programmes thus creating a more level playing field within the labour market. - Provide specialist pathway support, namely more targeted interventions to assist those with specific needs due to disability, ill health, or personal circumstance and unemployed to secure employment in growth and transformational sectors with Liverpool City Region. - The need for support to enable those who face these specific barriers to the labour market to access paid work experience and employment in order to become more job ready - The need to explore non-traditional pathways to the labour market for people with health problems or disabilities MEH’s programme will provide unemployed and inactive participants an opportunity to develop and understand labour markets and bridge the gap of people with a disability/health condition gaining employment within LCR. It will enable access not available through mainstream routeways into sustainable jobs. In addition it will change the attitudes of local employers towards employing disabled people and building a better understanding of disability and mental health. Targets We will work with 158 unemployed people and economically active people before June 2023 supporting 98 of these individual into education or employment. Partners The Women’ Organisation – Lead Partner (accountable body) Citizens Advice, Halton Citizens Advice, Knowsley Innovative Alliance Knowsley Disability Concern LDAS/Heat Raise Advice Steve Biko Housing Association St Helens Chamber of Commerce The Brain Charity Transform Lives Company Wirral Chamber. For more info: Joe Hemington, Joehemington@expandinghorizons.co.uk www.thewomensorganisation.org.uk