One -stop-shop. Mentoring for (re) entering the labour market,  creating own business and social innovation.

ALPE is an action of Axis 1 of the Rights & Challenges Project IV - Local Social Development Contract 3G, coordinated by Casa dos Choupos, CRL - Social Solidarity Multisector Cooperative and executed by ADRITEM - Integrated Rural Development Association of the Lands of Santa Maria , by AMICIS - Association of Friends for an Inclusive Community in Sanguedo and by CTCP - Technological Footwear Centre of Portugal.

ALPE - Local Employment Agency promotes actions in the fields of employability and entrepreneurship, for the development of skills, with a view to promoting employment in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira.

Led by qualified technicians, ALPE develops free work close to companies, unemployed, young people looking for the first job, entrepreneurs and social organizations.

The Office for Professional Insertion (GIP) of the City Council of Santa Maria da Feira is a decentralized response to some services provided to the municipality’s citizens by the Centre for Employment and Professional Training of Between Douro and Vouga, in the fields of training and employment, with the City Council of Santa Maria da Feira as its promoter.

Open every day to the public, GIP provides professional information to unemployed youths and adults, support to active job seekers and personalized assistance to the unemployed during their professional insertion and reinsertion stages. GIP also aims to find offers by employers, to divulge job offers and job-placement activities, and to divulge and provide guidance regarding job-support, qualification and entrepreneurship.

This structure also divulges community programs promoting job mobility and professional training within the European space, supports participation in temporary occupations or in volunteering activities that facilitate job-market insertion and other activities, taking into account the characteristics of the unemployed population registered with the Employment Centre.