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£28m European funding for skills
10/08/2004
New European funding worth £28 million to help boost
skills and training across Scotland was announced
today.
More than 200 projects will benefit from the latest
awards under the Objective 3 funding programme.
Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong
Learning Lewis Macdonald said:
"Today's awards will help boost skills and training
levels across Scotland - this will help play a crucial role
in our top priority of growing the economy.
"As well as helping increase skills levels in the
economy, the awards will also allow more people to fully
participate in their communities, helping promote social
inclusion across Scotland.
"One of the projects receiving further support in this
latest round will receive the 2000th award under the
Objective 3 programme. Tourist Board Training Ltd is
carrying out important work here at Culzean Castle and
across Scotland to improve the quality of customer service
in Scotland's tourism industry. It is an excellent example
of how today's successful projects can contribute to
growing important sectors of Scotland's economy."
The grants were announced today by the Deputy Enterprise
and Lifelong Learning Minister during a visit to Culzean
Castle, where he met the Ayrshire-based Tourist Board
Training Ltd project. Tourist Board Training will receive
the 2000th award under the programme.
The project has been awarded £250,000 to provide quality
customer service training to 620 tourism industry employees
across Scotland, including Ayrshire, and the Minister took
the opportunity today to meet with Castle staff who have
already completed their training.
Other successful projects include:
Glasgow College of Building and Printing has received
£416,423 to provide 160 training places for unemployed
people in the East and North of Glasgow to help them gain
the skills for a career in the construction industry. The
College has also received £99,426 to create an additional
40 training places in the business sector.
Aberdeen City Council's Minority Ethnic Childcare
Project 2005 has been awarded £48,716 to help with the
training and integration into work of 10 people of ethnic
minority who speak English as a second language. Trainees
will be trained to SVQ Level 2 in childcare.
Midlothian Council has received £89,927 to provide
adults over 25 who suffer barriers to employment with work
experience and vocational qualifications.
The Objective 3 Programme aims to provide support for
work-related training, employability, entrepreneurial
development and lifelong learning throughout Lowland
Scotland.
The 5th round of awards, a £28 million package announced
today, takes the total amount provided to date from the
programme to almost £250 million.
A full list of all the successful projects can be viewed
on the Objective 3 website
www.objective3.org.
Further details of the projects supported under the
Objective 3 Programme can be viewed
online or obtained
from the Objective 3 Partnership offices in Glasgow Tel:
0141 582 0401.