The EQUAL Initiative: Innovation
EQUAL will test innovative approaches to policy delivery. These may be completely new approaches or the transfer of elements from elsewhere, that increase the effectiveness of policy delivery.
The definition of innovation in EQUAL is based on the typology that emerged from the evaluation of EMPLOYMENT and ADAPT, which differentiated between three types of innovation:
- process-oriented innovations that cover the development of new methods, tools or approaches as well as the improvement of existing methods
- goal-oriented innovations that centre around the formulation of new objectives and may include approaches to identify new and promising qualifications and opening up new areas of employment
- context-oriented innovations that relate to political and institutional structures and are concerned with system development in relation to the labour market.
