Odense Steel Shipyard Reference EGF/2011/008 BACKGROUND • Shipyards in Europe over the last decades have Member State Denmark been losing substantial market shares to Asia. The Sector Shipbuilding global financial and economic crisis then further affected the global shipbuilding market, such that, Submitted to European 28 October 2011 according to the Community of European Commission Shipyards' Associations (CESA), the global Total budget planned EUR 9 930 930 orderbook dropped by 20% between 2008 and EGF contribution EUR 6 455 104 2009, while new orders dropped by 37 % during Intervention criterion Article 2(a) the same period. • Odense Steel Shipyard is a large and modern Period of reference 01 May 2011 – 31 August 2011 shipyard which produced biggest container ships so far built and which looks back on a long 968 Total redundancies shipbuilding tradition in the area. Active employment To be provided for 550 workers and • It is located in the island of Funen, in the eastern measures including : part of the region of Southern Denmark. There are - advisory and guidance services few employment opportunities for workers with a basic course; elsewhere on Funen and there is no shortage of workers in Denmark as a whole in the - vocational training and general metallurgical sector. Major efforts will therefore education towards promising have to be made to prepare the redundant workers sectors, i.e. energy technology, for their transition to new sectors. landscaping, robotics, and some general education for those who • The package of EGF assistance for the former need it most; workers of Odense Steel Shipyard has been carefully designed to help the workers find jobs in - measures to attract and retain the sectors with a promising future. These measures youth in education; go beyond what the Danish system can currently - employment incentives / teaching offer unemployed people and, if successful, will in enterprises; be applied more generally in future. - incentives, training, preparation • The workers' representatives, as well as the and mentoring in business creation municipalities of Odense and Kerteminde and the and entrepreneurship. region of Southern Denmark are among the stakeholders of the application. .