tailor-made training and retraining, including information and communication technology skills and certification of acquired experience, job-search assistance, occupational guidance, advisory services, mentoring, outplacement assistance, entrepreneurship promotion, aid for self-employment, business start-ups and employee take-overs, and co-operation activities.

The EGF co-financed measures would help the 300 workers facing most difficulties in finding new jobs by providing them with one-to-one counselling and guidance; skills assessment and outplacement; general training and re-training; individual vocational training; entrepreneurship promotion and support; outplacement incentives, job-search allowance and a contribution to commuting expenses.

the design and dissemination of innovative and more productive forms of work organisation, including better health and safety at work, the identification of future occupational and skills requirements, and the development of specific employment, training and support services, including outplacement, for workers in the context of company and sector restructuring.

In Finland, a right to early vocational rehabilitation measures for people at risk of becoming disabled is being introduced.

This local scheme, launched jointly by Dutch and German Chambers of Commerce with financial backing from the Community, has offered 400 customs agents the chance to develop their professional life.

In addition to the classical aids in this field ("tideover allowances") to supplement unemployment benefit up to 80% of the former wage, geographical mobility allowances to cover worker's removal costs, financing of vocational training and retraining programmes, compensation for any loss of income in the event of redeployment), the new Convention contains several innovations which reflect the desire shared by the Commission and the Spanish Government to provide workers with an active framework to facilitate their re-employment : labour market reintegration premium to stimulate the recruitment of workers from the steel industry, higher ti ...[+++]deover allowances for workers who create their own employment, payment of lump sum ECSC aid where workers are taken on by bodies specializing in readaptation.