Projects


Duration:  Since May 2020

Project and role: BIRDhub supports the ESF Data Support Centre of the European Commission’s DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and provides the translations of the questions/answers the ESF Data Support Centre has received. Translation is carried out from English to Latvian languages and is quality assured.


Duration:  2018-2019

Project and role: BIRDhub conducted data collection and analysis and developed the case stud for DG Regio Project: The use of technical Assistance for Administrative Capacity Building during the 2014-20 period.


Duration:  November 2018 – May 2019

Project and role: BIRDhub administered the national questionnaire and provided an overall picture of the country-specific situation with regard to gender equality infrastructure and gender mainstreaming for the Study: ‘Institutional Mechanisms for Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming’ conducted for the European Institute for Gender Equality.


Duration:  April 2017 – April 2018

Project and role: BIRDhub provided the country level expertise for Estonia for the “Study supporting the update of the data reported in the 2007-2013 ESF ex-post evaluation”. BIRDhub supported the preparation of ESF 2007-2013 country factsheet for Estonia.


Duration:  April 2017- April 2018

Project and role: BIRDhub provided the country level expertise for Estonia for the FEAD mid-term evaluation. The work included the desk research and conducting interviews with stakeholders and fed into the evaluation report. It provided an insight into national specificities and good practices. More information is available here.


Duration:  March 2017-March 2018

Project and role: BIRDhub caried out the filed work and provided country level expertise on existing concepts, practices and policies on apprenticeships for adults in Czechia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. BIRDhub contributed to the analysis on how the apprenticeships for adults work in practice in these countries. Final synthesis report and a selection of case studies is available here.


Duration: July-October 2017

Project and role: BIRDhub supported the development of Cedefop’s online skills anticipation and matching data base by providing a collection of policy examples of efforts of Latvia in governing its skills anticipation system.

The country report is available here.


Duration: 2013-2015

Project and role: BIRDhub implemented the project “Support for civic participation in sustainable cooperation” co-financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway within SIF.LV programme NGO Activity Support Measure (2009-2014).

Aim: Support for civil participation in sustainable cooperation, i.e. strengthening of NGOs’ management and participatory model, promotion of active participation, participation in policy-making processes.

Place: Latvia. The project relies on the participation in international organizations, cooperation at the national and regional levels. Visits took place in the Belgium, France, Estonia and Norway.

Main activities and results: Preparation of series of analytical articles, membership in RSA, FranceXP and InterRegioNovation, organization of trainings, discussions and seminars at local and international level, exchange of experience. As a result citizen participation and consciousness was boosted as well as awareness on ad-hoc topics of regional and economic development in Europe. The society became more informed about the objectives and activities of the association, including the stakeholder engagement in the work of the association and other international events.

Financing: Cofinancing: 59760.62 EUR

The project “Support for civic participation in sustainable cooperation” is co-financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway within SIF.LV programme NGO Activity Support Measure (2009-2014).

Project contract nr. 2012.EEZ/DAP/MAC/114/3/NAC/061