UIA Expert Gabriel Amitsis discusses the implementation of the GSIP Project during 2020 and highlights its major achievements and accomplishments. In this issue of the Journal, the Expert also focuses on the key external risk factor for the Project’s performance so far (i.e. the COVID-19 pandemic), analyses its impact on both the Finnish and the Vantaa labour market, and presents the innovative ways that Project Partners used to promote a balanced set of sustainable active employment measures (Growth and Social Investment Pacts) with strong social investment and growth objectives.
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The Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) is a European Union initiative that provided funding to urban areas across Europe to test new and unproven solutions to urban challenges. The initiative had a total ERDF budget of €372 million for 2014-2020.