Municipality of Zoetermeer uses European grant for guidance to work

The municipality of Zoetermeer and Leidschendam-Voorburg have invested the ESF resources in finding work for job seekers and to help employees to continue working successfully and for a long time. Among others, benefit recipients, vulnerable young people and people with a work disability and status holders have been helped. There has also been a focus on encouraging employers to help employees return to work, education/training, job coaching and placement subsidies for employers.

European Social Fund

The ESF is the most important European tool to support employment, help people find work and ensure fairer employment opportunities for all EU citizens. The Dutch government wants to use the subsidies for vulnerable workers and job seekers, for social innovation & food aid. This is done in collaboration with municipalities, PrO/vso schools, ROCs/AOCs, UWV and the business community. The ESF subsidy amounts to 413 million nationally and is divided among the 35 labor market regions in the Netherlands.