Local Employment Partnerships in an Enlarging Europe

Anette Scoppetta

Klaus Schuch

European Forum on Local Development and Employment

2003-05-16

ZENTRUM FÜR SOZIALE INNOVATIONCENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION

Look Who’s Talking?

Klaus Schuch

Business and Research Manager at the CSI

Adviser to Austrian Ministries (Foreign Affairs; Education, Science and Culture, Economic Affairs)

Consultant in several European Networks (incl. ‘enlargement’)

Anette Scoppetta

Head of Unit for Work and Equal Opportunities at CSI

Head of Co-ordination Unit for Austrian TEPs and Local Employment Initiatives (on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour)

Expert for national and European labour market issues

Objectives

This presentation aims

to present good practice in linking labour market policies and measures to personal needs

to discuss the adoption of regional employment partnerships in an enlarged Europe

to recommend an instrument to ensure knowledge transfer in an enlarged Europe

The Bridging Problem

Social Innovation is the engine for the development of a society.

Lack of Social Innovation means societal deadlock, dominant technological approaches and difficulties concerning organisational changes.

In order to improve the fabric of information and knowledge based societies the immanent potential of technological feasibility, organisational shaping and social needs have to be explored, combined and developed.

This bridging problem occurs on different levels (European, national, regional).

CSI: Think-Tank for Social Innovation

• Research, Policy Advice, Network Co-ordination and Education

• Around 40 experts in » innovative labour market issues, » equal opportunities, » integration and migration, » eLearning, » democracy and participation research, » technology shaping and European RTDI policies

• Implementation of a multitude of European RTD and Structural Programmes and Projects

Projects

V.I.P.

Employment Partnerships - a Bridge for:

• linking concepts to people

• implementing horizontal issues (e.g. Gender Mainstreaming)

• cross-border co-operations in an enlarged Europe

Chamber ofLabour

Provincial School Board

Provincial Government

Federal Office of Social Affairs

Labour Market Service

EconomicChamber

Chamber of Agriculture

Educational Institutions

Federation ofIndustry

NGOs (local initiatives)

Austrian Federation of Trade Unions

Municipalities or associations of muni-cipal representatives

Gender Mainstreaming Experts

Co-ordination Office for the Austrian TEPs, 2003

TEP as linkage-tool

Devolution model (STEBEP and 6 local TEPs)

Tirol Burgen-land

VorarlbergSalz-burg

Upper Austria

LowerAustria

Styria

Carinthia

Vienna

Regional managersfor Employment

Monitoring / Evaluation

Direct linkage with Objective 2

Implementation within Objective 1

„Project partnership“

Integration of disadvantaged persons

Pool for ideas / „experiment capital“

Comprehensive harmonisation of subsidies

Co-ordination Office for the Austrian TEPs, 2003

Austrian TEPs 2003 - Examples of fields of action

Results:

Definition of GM in TEPs

Catalogue of criteria for project evaluation, selection

and GM-implementation

Concept for regional gender analysis

Policy recommendations for a best practice model pact

Implementing Horizontal Issues: The example of Gender Mainstreaming

Cross-border co-operations in an enlarged Europe

TEP SLO / A:

• General Agreement between Labour Market Services in bordering regions of Slovenia - Austria

• Development of cross-border TEP: Identification of common aims, strategies and regulatory frameworks

TEP HU / A:

• TEP Celldömölk already agreed

• TEP Zala in development

• Trilateral conferences Hungary, Slovenia, Austria

TEP BG / A:

• Know-how exchange

From Individual Cases to an European Dimension

• to avoid double-track activities

• to prevent inventing the wheel again and again

• to lower the entry barriers by lowering the transaction costs

• to secure a high level of expertise transfer and knowledge development throughout an enlarged Europe

Final Conclusion

Local activities work already, but without co-ordination and exchange of experiences

National authorities are focused on national problems

International co-ordination and competence building as well as transfer of practical experience is needed (operational level)

International Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance

Networking Activities Knowledge Input andConsultancy

Public Relations

Forum Expert Group Co-ordination meetings of

employment partnerships Knowledge management

platform for labour marketpolicy

Regular transfer ofknowledge and information:e.g. results of studies,international and nationalstrategies, innovativemeasures

International Partnershipmart (learning from BestPractice)

Thematic inputs and bestpractice examples (e.g.information modules, projectdatabase, benchmarking)

Material support and advice forthe LEPs (e.g. guidelines)

Assessment of existing andcreation of new co-operationmodels between partnershipsand enterprises / clusters

Support in putting monitoringand evaluation systems intoplace

Expert database Supervising research

Public relations andmedia coverage Web-site annual

informationportfolio andfolders

annual reports Newsletters

ZENTRUM FÜR SOZIALE INNOVATIONCENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION

Anette ScoppettaKlaus Schuch

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