Work and occupation

Since 1998, «HEKS/EPER KICK» has been assisting young job-seekers from the Emmental and Oberaargau areas. The programme creates bridges to vocational training. Participants are offered structured daily routines through educational and work opportunities and through personal mentoring.

«HEKS/EPER Job Network» helps people from the regions of Oberaargau, Emmental and the Bernese Oberland in their job searches, thereby enabling them to improve their quality of life over the long term.

«HEKS/EPER Visio» helps unemployed people to develop career prospects and to enter or re-enter working life. The project can also benefit refugees and temporarily admitted persons. The programme is available in the Emmental, Oberaargau and Bernese Oberland areas.

«HEKS/EPER Triangle» Eastern Switzerland is a work integration programme for foreign-language speakers and includes programmes for unemployed persons in the Canton of Thurgau.

Through Chèques-emploi, HEKS/EPER promotes access to social rights for persons working in private households in the Canton of Vaud by improving their working conditions.

«HEKS/EPER Visit» Aargau/Solothurn is an employment programme and offers new prospects to the long-term unemployed.

HEKS/EPER@home is a practical integration project that allows for everyday interaction between migrants and the German-speaking population.

«HEKS/EPER Visit Eastern Switzerland» secures meaningful part-time positions for long-term unemployed people and fosters their social integration.

By way of social assistance, the programme organizes meaningful part-time occupation for long-term jobless people. Thanks to a structured week and meaningful work, participants are better able to become socially integrated.

«HEKS rollt» (HEKS on wheels) offers the following bike-related services in two communes in the Canton of Zurich: bike rental, the guarding of private bikes, a limited home delivery service in Wädenswil, and a home delivery service by electric bike in Thalwil.