The calls finance strategic projects for a maximum of about 5 euro millions and - aside national beneficiaries - can be financed partnerships that include excellence international subjects.
More details about the Strategic Operational Programme can be found on the website FSE Romania, while the forms for the projects online submission can be found on the website ActionWeb .

The Operational Programme is articulated in seven Priority Axis:

1. Education and training in support for growth and development of knowledge based society
Overall objective: Development of flexible lifelong learning pathways and increasing the access to education and training by delivering modern quality initial and continuous education, including higher education and research.
Specific objectives:

• Improving the quality assurance system in preuniversity education and initial VET systems by supporting schools in management and capacity to provide relevant qualifications for labour market;
• Improving the quality assurance system in higher education by supporting universities in management and capacity to provide relevant qualifications;
• Improving the teachers’ and trainers’ qualifications and of other categories of human resources in education and training by supporting their initial and continuous training;
• Increasing the quality assurance in CVT by supporting CVT providers for developing quality assurance and management system;
• Supporting better knowledge and competences of young researchers by doctoral and postdoctoral programmes.

2. Linking life long learning and labour market
Overall objective: facilitating access to education and increasing employability and educational attainment of human resources in a life cycle approach in the context of knowledge based society.
Specific objectives:

• A better transition from school to active life;
• Improved participation in second chance education and preventing early school leaving in particular for vulnerable groups;
• Increasing the readiness of enterprises to support the enhancement of employees qualification level;
• Increasing the qualification level of employees.

3. Increasing adaptability of workers and enterprises
Overall objective: promoting entrepreneurial culture, flexicurity and adaptability by supporting skilled, trained and adaptable labour force and enterprises.
Specific objectives:

• Increasing the entrepreneurship by supporting individuals in creating new business;
• Improving the qualification level of professionals in management and organisation of work;
• Increasing the specialisation level of employees by upgrading and improvement of skills;
• Enhancing the level of participation of social partners and NGOs in providing services to the community.

4. Modernisation of Public Employment Service
Overall objective: the increasing the quality, efficiency and transparency of employment services provided by the Public Employment Service.
Specific objectives:

• Raising the level of selfservices provided by employment agencies;
• Increasing the quality management in Public Employment Service;
• Improving the competences of PES staff in providing services to clients;
• Enhancing the AEM’s provision, especially vocational training programmes for unemployed.

5. Promoting active employment measures
Overall objective: facilitating the integration on the labour market of young and longterm unemployed, attracting and retaining more people in employment, including in rural areas, and supporting formal employment.
Specific objectives:

• Enhancing the participation of LTU in AEMs integrated programmes;
• Increasing the participation of individuals living in subsistence agriculture in employment integrated programmes;
• Improving the job attainment for participants from rural areas in employment integrated programmes.

6. Promoting social inclusion
Overall objective: facilitating access on the labour market of vulnerable groups and promoting a cohesive and inclusive society in order to ensure the welfare of all citizens.
Specific objectives:

• Promoting and supporting job creation in structures of social economy;
• Increasing the qualification level of persons belonging to vulnerable groups;
• Improving the level of skills and competences of professionals in the field of social inclusion.

7. Technical Assistance
Overall objective: providing support for the SOP HRD implementation process and effective use of the Community financial input and national cofinancing through:

• Performing and qualified MA and Intermediate Bodies;
• Strategic use of evaluation;
• Coherence between actions, providing compatibility of projects with the EU policies;
• Promotion of SOP HRD objectives and operations.