Service Centre- Project in cooperation with EU

Information System Service Centre

• Operational program number: CZ.04.1.03
• Operational program title: Human Resources Development
• Priority number: 3.2
• Priority title: Social integration and equal opportunities
• Provision number: 3.2.2
• Provision title: Promote equal opportunities for men and women
• Call number: 01

• Grant scheme title: Promote equal opportunities for men and women
• Intervention area: Action for women on the labour market
• Project start date: 1 February 2006
• Project duration: 24 months

Project contents

There will be an Information System Service Centre established within the scope of the project allowing target groups to be involved in the work process via remote Internet access without the necessary traveling and extra time load requirements. The project contents cover a wide-scale training (both theoretical and hands-on training) of 15 women in the use of a finance information system helping to establish 6 part-time job positions for 8 women. The project also includes acquisiton of knowledge in the area of IT, sustainable development and language skills. Supporting measures included in the project shall help the engagement of all target groups. Graduates will be able to perform all basic logistic and financial operations in the information system as well as to provide basic consultancy services therewith.

• Location : Moravian-Silesian region
• Project environment: Urban environment

Project benefits

One fifth of all the unemployed people in the Czech Republic (more than 105,000 people) live in the Moravian-Silesian Region; there is the highest ratio of job applicants per one vacant position - 1:40. The unemployment rate in this region has reached 17 % of which 49 % represent women (target group of the project). Out of the total number of unemployed people, 13,388 women, i.e. 12.7 %, meet the requirement of basic education level in order to be involved in the project (secondary school graduate), and 29,214 women, i.e. 27.7 % meet the age prerequisite (up to 40 years of age) (all data as of 31 December 2004). As the above mentioned figures and discussions with the Ostrava Work Office imply, the target group's key problem is the shortage of vacancies in general on one hand and the shortage of part-time jobs on the other hand. There are also knowledge barriers; employees have to pass a training with limited applicability (graduates). Low prospects barrier (women going on maternity leave) and restricted time availability (mothers with children) represent further major barriers. There was another issue coming out from the discussions with particular potential clients (users of the information system) of the IT Service Centre - there is a shortage of qualified employees for part-time jobs or employment for a definite period of time. These jobs will be covered by establishing a group of qualified workers on the basis of outsourcing. The project managed in cooperation with the Ostrava Work Office covers the selection procedure, establishment of new job positions and their sustenance for the period of 2 years as well as training and join-up training of further project participants who will thus get a significant chance to win a job. The knowledge barrier is overcome by the initial wide-range training; prospects and time availability are ensured by providing part-time jobs. The supportive actions only aptly complete the above mentioned measures so that target groups from the entire Moravian-Silesian Region could be involved without any problems. Women engaged in the field of information technologies improve women's access to IT on one hand and involve them in ań unconventional field of consulting services in the area of information systems. The training covers both professional lectures and environment and language studies contributing to sustainable development and qualification enhancement.

Target groups:

• Employers
• Long-term unemployed women
• Mothers with little children
• Single mothers
• Women under the threat of unemployment
• Women with basic or no education
• Women in preretirement age
• Women returning to the labour market

Benefits for the target group

According to the experiences and to the information ascertained during the discussions with the Ostrava Work Office, key needs of the target groups cover qualification enhancement in information technologies (of participants without tertiary education), creation of time less consuming (part-time) job, language skills, work experience acquisition and, last but not least, the need of supportive actions (baby-sitting allowance, commuting allowance). The project is important in providing complex theoretical and practical knowledge about the particular information system (SAP) which is the largest and most used information system according to all criteria. This knowledge will then allow for easy job acquisition at different employers using this information system. It is also important for the women to acquire and keep work experiences with all the skills and knowledge. Working with the information system goes hand in hand with the knowledge of information technologies and practical language skills when communicating with potential EU customers.

Project implementation

Project office established - February 2006

Tender processes- February 2006

Training and its completion - March to May/2006

Participants

We are glad to present the graduates of the project training phase. As we respect everybody's right to privacy and data protection we have replaced some of the photos with a smilie and 1 participant shall stay undisclosed.

Šárka Babušíková
Ostrava
Attained education level: University– College of Education
Language knowledge: English
Training phase completed with the result: 88 %
Best in: Sales and Distriution, Procurement and Warehousing
Continues in the project

Kateřina Blašťáková
Ostrava
Attained education level: Business School - English-German with a school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: German
Training phase completed with the result: 80 %
Best in: Controlling
Does not continue in the project

Kateřina Brázdilová
Ostrava
Attained education level: Secondary Technical School – Public Law with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: English
Training phase completed with the result: 79 %
Best in: Controlling
Does not continue in the project

Eva Hartová
Ostrava
Attained education level: Secondary Vocational School with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: German
Training phase completed with the result: 80 %
Best in: Accounting, System Navigation Basics
Continues in the project

Lucie Navrátilová
Frýdek - Místek District
Attained education level: Music Academy with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: English
Training phase completed with the result: 80 %
Best in: System Navigation Basics
Continues in the project

Kateřina Němečková
Ostrava
Attained education level: Nursing School with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: English, Russian
Training phase completed with the result: 85 %
Best in: Controlling, Procurement and Warehousing
Continues in the project

Zuzana Přečková
Ostrava
Attained education level: Business School with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: German, English
Training phase completed with the result: 80 %
Best in: Procurement and Warehousing
Continues in the project

Ivona Rodinová
Ostrava
Attained education level: Building School with school–leaving exam
Language knowledge: German
Training phase completed with the result: 66 %
Best in: Controlling
Does not continue in the project

Diana Seifriedová
Ostrava
Attained education level: Secondary Business School with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: English
Training phase completed with the result: 70 %
Best in: Accounting
Does not continue in the project

Jana Špánková
Frýdek – Místek District
Attained education level: Secondary Business School with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: German
Training phase completed with the result: 83 %
Best in: Controlling, Accounting
Continues in the project

Petra Urbančíková
Ostrava
Attained education level: Specialized Secondary School with school- leaving exam
Language knowledge: English
Training phase completed with the result: 63 %
Best in: Procurement and Warehousing
Does not continue in the project

Zuzana Valochová
Ostrava
Attained education level: Secondary Technical School with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: English
Training phase completed with the result: 74 %
Best in: System Navigation Basics
Does not continue in the project

Martina Wanjeková
Ostrava
Attained education level: Secondary Industrial School
Language knowledge: Russian
Training phase completed with the result: 80 %
Best in: Accounting
Does not continue in the project

Daniela Záveská
Ostrava
Attained education level: Secondary Transportation School with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: German
Training phase completed with the result: 76 %
Best in: Procurement and Warehousing
Does not continue in the project

Vladislava Žídková
Ostrava
Attained education level: Full secondary education with school-leaving exam
Language knowledge: Russian
Training phase completed with the result: 80 %
Best in: Sales and Distribution
Does not continue in the project