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th 10 Annual Meeting Job Creation just ahead: Building Resilient and Adaptable Local Labour Markets

24-25 April 2013, ,

23 April 16:00: join the pre-event workshop on “Reducing School Dropout Rates” followed by welcome cocktail and early registration.

In co-operation with

Swedish Public Employment Service, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), Swedish Ministry of Employment and the World Association of Public Employment Services (WAPES)

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Wednesday, 23 April 2014: pre-event programme Venue: Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions – SALAR

16:00-18:00 workshop on Reducing School Drop Out Rates through Improved Local Governance Reducing high school dropout rates is a challenge confronted by many OECD countries. The Plug In project in Sweden was designed to strengthen co-operation between the regional councils and the municipalities and other stakeholders around the issue of early school leaving support. This workshop will review the approaches and the first results of the Plug In project and compare them with practices elsewhere to distil lessons on approaches that work.

Welcome and introduction by OECD and SALAR

Thematic discussion 1: Ways to prevent young people from dropping out of school.

 Place based educational continuum approaches, Randall Eberts, President, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, US;  Working with parents to prevent early school leaving, Eddy Adams (URBACT) and Jean Jacques Derrien (City of Nantes) PREVENT – parents and early school leaving

Thematic discussion 2: How to bring those who dropped out back into education?

 Thomas Townsend, University of Ottawa, Canada

Thematic discussion 3: Bringing it all together

 Strategic approach to reduce NEET rates at city level: the example of Glasgow, Martin Collins, Glasgow City Education Department

Conclusions

Projection of mini-films on Plug In project 18:00-19:30 Welcome drink and pre-registration

Thursday, 24 April 2014

08.30 - 09.00 Registration of participants and welcome coffee

Conference facilitator: Ann-Catherin Frécon, Arbetsförmedlingen, Swedish Public Employment Service

09.00 – 9.30 WELCOME AND OPENING

. Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD . Elisabeth Svantesson, Minister for Employment, Sweden . László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG Employment Commissioner (or Robert Strauss, Head of Unit, Employment Analysis, DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, European Commission, Chairman of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance)

9.30-11.30 PLENARY SESSION 1: JOB CREATION JUST AHEAD In the recovery, local communities can boost economic growth and sustainability by investing in a skilled workforce which is less

expendable, more adaptable to change and better able to contribute to productivity growth and the creation of new jobs. In order to contribute to this agenda, employment and training organisations need to align their services effectively with local conditions and with broader local economic development strategies. 12 OECD countries are being reviewed by the OECD to understand how this can best be achieved, while ensuring the achievement of national policy objectives. At this session the OECD will release the results of this work and some of the participating countries will highlight their experiences.

9.30-10.30 Chair: Sylvain Giguère, Head of the LEED Division, OECD Comparative results from 12 countries by Jonathan Barr, OECD LEED Panel discussion: OECD, city & regional authorities, regional /local offices of employment and training agencies, and employers. Questions for discussion: 1. What is particularly important for you from OECD findings? 2. What do you think is the priority so that employment and training agencies contribute to local job creation?

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Discussion with the floor 10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.00 PLENARY SESSION 2: JOB CREATION JUST AHEAD (continued)

Chair: John Atherton, Director General, Employment Programs and Partnerships, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Chair, LEED Directing Committee Highlights from participating countries: Local strategies in the context of an outsourced system  Sandra Parker, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace; Australia  Thomas Townsend, National expert for OECD Local Job Creation project, University of Ottawa, Canada

Skills for jobs: employer led workforce development strategies  Sweden  Belgium Discussion with the floor

12.00-13.00 NETWORKING SESSION: LOCAL INITIATIVES FOR JOBS, INCLUSION AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Short interactive sessions (some 22-25 initiatives will be selected by organisers including 7-8 Swedish initiatives) The Annual Meeting of the Forum provides a unique networking opportunity for partnership practitioners. This session is organised around a series of short interactive sessions where Forum members present and discuss their projects with experts from other countries.

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15:45 PLENARY SESSION 3: INTEGRATING THE MOST VULNERABLE YOUTH INTO THE LABOUR MARKET

Moderator: Clas Olsson, Acting Director General at Arbetsförmedlingen (Swedish Public Employment Service) Keynote address: Anders Knape, President, SALAR Moderated panel discussion  OECD  Lori Forte Harnick, Microsoft’s General Manager for Citizenship & Public Affairs  City Partnerships for Youth Employment  PES and Education & training representative  European Youth Forum Discussion with the floor

15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break

16:15-18:00 8 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

A Local implementation of Youth Guarantee: lessons E Local Job Creation: Engaging with employers from practice Facilitator: Jonathan Barr, OECD LEED Facilitator: Corinne Nativel

B Reducing school dropout rates: what works? F Managing demographic change impact on local labour Facilitator: SALAR markets Facilitator: Cristina Martinez, OECD LEED

C Evidence-based policies for tackling disadvantage G Youth entrepreneurship Facilitator: Francesca Froy , OECD LEED Facilitator: URBACT/WAPES/LEED

D How to measure the social impact of social economy H Creating and managing local partnerships: workshop for Facilitator: Antonella Noya , OECD LEED partnership manages and national co-ordinators Facilitator: OECD LEED, Contributors: WAPES ; EC PARES (Partnership between Employment Services) ; ZSI

19.30 Conference dinner and welcome address by Chris Heister, Governor

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Friday, 25 April 2014

9.00 – 9.30 PLENARY SESSION 3: EMPLOYMENT AND INCLUSION PROJECTS IN STOCKHOLM: INTRODUCTION

Short introduction on the Swedish & Stockholm labour market policy context Workshop hosts present their projects

9.30-10.00 Transfer from central venue to project sites

10.00 – 11.30 WORKSHOPS HOSTED AT PROJECT SITES

A Reducing school dropout rates (host: SALAR) D TBC

B Tackling disadvantage in a time of limited resources E TBC (host: Fryshuset, youth inclusion project) Facilitator: Antonella Noya , OECD LEED

C Local Job Creation (host: PES) F TBC Facilitator: Jonathan Barr, OECD LEED

11.30-12.00 Transfer to central venue

12.00 – 12.30 Light lunch (served in the room)

12.30 - 14.00 PLENARY SESSIONS 4: MANAGING TRANSITIONS DURING THE LIFE-CYCLE

Chair: Francesca Froy, OECD LEED

This session will look at how work organisation and pathways into work can be transformed to improve productivity and deliver better life chances for women and men. It will look at the importance of investment in family friendly workplaces (including good quality part- time work), while also looking at adult careers guidance and support for people to transition into new careers later in the life-cycle (particularly those in precarious sectors or those facing redundancy). The importance of the local level in creating more effective local pathways between jobs and training for adults will be explored. The issue of how to manage successful transitions towards retirement will also be addressed.  Elizabeth Arp, President, WAPES  Ministry for Education and Research, Sweden  OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)

Panel discussion

Discussion with the floor

13.45 - 14.00 Closing remarks Jan Hendeliowitz, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Employment, The Danish National Labour Market Authority

14.15-16.00 CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES Four concurrent workshops will review the new ideas emerging in the following fields.

The latest development in New approaches to area-based OECD Forum on Social Brokerage as the key to understanding the links between partnerships and local governance Innovations unlocking the new economy: skills, economic diversity and findings from URBACT projects innovation Chair: OECD LEED Chair: Antonella Noya, OECD Chair: Francesca Froy, OECD LEED Chair : Eddy Adams, URBACT LEED  ‘New Regionalism' as the New Local Development  Agnès Hubert, Counsellor,  Marcela Escobari or Frank Paradigm?: Cautionary Bureau of European Policy Neffke, Growth Lab, Centre Evidence from Recent Advisors (BEPA), European for International Development Research in Canada by Commission at Harvard University Professor David J.A. Douglas,  Dr Riccardo Crescenzi, Rural Planning and London School of Economics Development, University of

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Guelph, Canada  Comment by Professor Mark Considine, Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Australia

OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance

www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/forumpartnerships.htm

FORUM TEAM

OECD Headquarters, Paris, France Mailing address: Rue André-Pascal 2 F-75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

Sylvain Giguère, Head of the LEED Division Ekaterina Travkina, Forum Manager Francesca Froy, Co-ordinator for Activities on Employment, Skills and Local Governance

OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development, Trento, Italy Mailing address: Vicolo San Marco 1 I-38122 Trento, Italy

Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer, Policy Analyst Elisa Campestrin, Information and Communication Technology Manager

FORUM BOARD Chairman: Robert Strauss, Head of Unit, Employment Analysis, DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, European Commission Doris Ballwein, ESF Expert, Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection (BMASK), Austria Randall Eberts, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, US Denis Leamy, Chief Executive of Pobal, Ireland Sally Sinclair, CEO of the National Employment Services Association, Australia Louis Vervloet, Director of ESF Unit, Flemish Ministry of Employment, Belgium