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EQUAL 2001-07Summary
The EQUAL Community Initiative tested and promoted new ways of combating all forms of discrimination and inequalities faced by those groups most disadvantaged in the labour market including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, older worker, refugees, ex-offenders, drug and alcohol misusers.
ATLAS 2002-07Summary
ATLAS (Action for Training and Learning for Asylum Seekers) was a Development Partnership that included partners from a broad range of statutory and non-statutory organisations.
Scottish Innovative Actions 2004-06Summary
The Scottish Innovative Actions Programme aimed to improve the Scottish innovation system by piloting new approaches and projects throughout Scotland.
WS Objective 2 2000-06Summary
The Programme supported a vision to make Western Scotland a region characterised by innovation in its businesses and economy, and able to provide a high quality of life for its people.
URBAN II 2000-06Summary
This Community Initiative focused on developing and supporting community-based regeneration projects in Clydebank South and Port Glasgow, areas with high concentrations of social, environmental and economic problems.
Objective 3 2000-06Summary
The aim of the Scottish European Social Fund (ESF), Objective 3 Programme (2000–06) was to support sustainable economic growth in Scotland by developing the skills and the potential of the workforce.
RIS Plus 1999-2001Summary
The Regional Innovation Strategy Plus initiative ensured that the pilot projects and priority actions detailed in the RIS Action Plan developed in Regional Innovation Strategy 1996 Programme were successfully implemented in the Western Scotland region.
TEP 1998-2000Summary
The overall purpose of the Western Scotland Territorial Employment Pact was to identify and test out new and innovative ways to tackle the causes of social exclusion and unemployment, reflecting both local needs and opportunities.
WS Objective 2 1997-99Summary
The Western Scotland Objective 2 1997-99 Programme was designed as a progression from the 1994-96 Programme based on a six-year economic and social regeneration strategy for the region to the year 2000.
URBAN I 1994-99Summary
This Community Initiative focused investment on community-based regeneration projects in two urban communities with high concentrations of social, environmental and economic problems in Glasgow and Paisley.
RIS 1996-99Summary
The long term goal of the Regional Innovation Strategy was to establish Western Scotland as the most innovative region in Europe.
RESIDER II 1994-99Summary
This Community Initiative targeted support to assist the economic and social regeneration of former steel communities.
RECHAR II 1994-99Summary
The focus of the RECHAR II Programme was to tackle the environment conditions in the former coalmining communities in Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire, and approve high quality and sustainable improvements.
WS Objective 2 1994-96Summary
The Western Scotland Objective 2 Programme 1994-1996 was designed as a progression from the Strathclyde IDO and 1993 Western Scotland Operational Programme, both of which had been based on a long-term economic regeneration strategy to the year 2000.
WS Operational 1993Summary
The 1993 Western Scotland Operational Programme was a multi-fund Programme which comprised of six Priorities in line with those identified in the 1992-93 Community Support Framework.
RECHAR I 1990-93Summary
The overall objective of the Strathclyde RECHAR Programme was to assist in the economic conversion of the Cumnock and Sanquhar coalmining community and help to develop the conditions for sustainable development with the creation of new job opportunities.
RENAVAL 1990-93Summary
The Strathclyde RENAVAL Programme focused primarily on tackling the particular economic difficulties that faced the three communities of Inverclyde, Govan in Glasgow and Clydebank, within the broader geographical areas termed as ‘travel-to-work’ areas of Glasgow, following the run-down of the shipbuilding industry.
IDO 1988-92Summary
The Strathclyde Integrated Development Operation (IDO, predecessor to SEP Ltd) comprised a package of grants and loans from the European Commission which, combined with financial contributions from both the public and private sector, was aimed at the long-termed, self-sustaining economic regeneration of Strathclyde.