The aim of the project is to cerate a pancake restaurant where people from the Stedelijk Hart [Heart of the City] area who are disconnected from the labour market can gain work experience. The pancake restaurant contributes to the quality of life in the Wesselerbrink district.

The project involves the conversion of a former farm into a pancake restaurant with a teaching room and the facilitation of people into work.

The pancake farm offers training programmes for work experience and for beneficial use of time. The plan is for forty people to gain work experience, with the ultimate aim that they progress on to regular employment.

European subsidy: € 256.550
Total cost: € 1.026.210

This project has been partially funded with Objective 2 funds. Since 2000 nine cities have been eligible for the Objective 2 Urban Areas in the Netherlands programme, which forms part of the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRD) of the European Union. EFRD is one of the four Structural Funds of the European Commission. The programme helps cities to carry out projects that benefit disadvantaged areas.

In the Netherlands, total European Objective 2 subsidies concern 192 million euros. 4.25% of the Dutch population lives in the selected areas.

The European Commission prescribes that for every euro from the EFRD, a minimum of one euro must be contributed from the government. The cities must therefore add their own public or private funding to the European subsidy. The European programme is linked to the urban plans agreed within the context of the urban policy of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. For this, the cities can make use of funds that have been allocated to them in the context of the national urban policy.

Enschede Stedelijk Hart - local programme management
Phone: +31 53 4818532

28/04/2004

case

Urban Policy > Urban environment > Cultural heritage

Conservation of historic buildings