Technical assistance for the management of the general ESF grant of the Département de Loire-Atlantique enables the following actions to be carried out: _Tasks for monitoring and general steering of the global grant (programme management)_ * Financial monitoring of the global grant and drawing up of declarations of expenditure * qualitative and quantitative piloting of the co-financed arrangements * Monitoring and, where appropriate, information of the indicators of the operational programme * Participation in the monitoring, evaluation and programming bodies of the AGD * Information of technical and financial data on the dematerialised site “My ESF Approach” * Performance of controls * Drafting of reports on controls. _Operations File Management Tasks_: * Information, animation, support to beneficiaries * Help desk for receipt of grant applications * Study of admissibility of applications * Instruction of grant applications * Presentation and selection of operations before the ESF Steering Committee and the programming body i.e. the Standing Committee. * Notification to beneficiaries as soon as their application has been selected, postponed or rejected * Establishment and signature of aid attributions * Monitoring of the implementation of operations * Monitoring of the collection of data relating to the indicators of the operational programme * on-the-spot visits in the course of implementation * Service checks done * Notification of the results of service checks made to beneficiaries * Payment of aid to beneficiaries * Classification and archiving of single management files * Information of the data on the dematerialised site “My ESF approach”.