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Welcome to the Linking Local Actors website !
The Linking Local Actors project started in January 2006. It provides the means for networking and close cooperation between the Commission and local economic and employment development actors.
We hope you find the site useful and will help us to build an ever more useful tool for local development actors.
Linking Local Actors is supported by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.
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Highlights
- 24/04/2008
- Capacity Building Seminar for Partnerships on "Designing and Delivering Skills Strategies for Cities"
- When developing a skills agenda for a particular locality or region, a number of different factors have to be taken into account. Local people need to be equipped with the skills required for career development and future prosperity, while the skills demands of local employers need to be met through innovative and flexible training delivery. Measures range from improving employability of those who are about to enter the labour market, helping adults with low or no qualifications to achieve the skills necessary for sustainable employment, as well as providing opportunities for the highly qualified to renew and refresh their skills. In areas undergoing economic restructuring or planning economic diversification the skills training infrastructure needs to anticipate and prepare for future demands.
- 13/03/2008
- "Harnessing an Entrepreneurial Spirit for Inclusive Local Employment Development"
- 25 April 2008: this conference will consider the state-of-play in LED, look at the relevance of the Lisbon agenda, and present some reflections on the future for local actors.
- 13/12/2007
- Linking Local Actors' Newsletter on-line
- Our November issue of the Newsletter is now available for download:
- 18/11/2007
- Criteria and parameters for good practice analysis and selection
- This document is a peer review on local employment development project called "AWARDS" (Acting Women workers Aimed at Renewing Development towards a Sustainable life), funded through the European Social Fund (Innovative actions 2000-2006), involving Italian and Spanish partners from Piacenza, Arezzo, Ferrol and Murcia.
- 21/10/2007
- Seminar report: enhancing the capacity of partnerships to influence policy
- The report gives an overview of the presentations and discussions which took place during two capacity building seminars on this topic. The two seminars were organised as activities of the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance. Participants could discuss previous experiences on mechanisms for influencing: public policy; principle interests of partnerships and their bases; underlying policy frameworks; and the potential contributions and added values resulting from partnerships involvement in policy design and delivery. To download the report: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/27/39200464.pdf
- 16/05/2007
- Measuring the effects of the Structural Funds on jobs: an on-line guide
- Gross or net, temporary or permanent, direct or indirect… How to obtain a reliable evaluation of the impact on employment of programmes supported by EU cohesion policy? The question is as crucial as it is complex. A practical guide published by the European Commission is now available on-line.
- 07/04/2008
- Business from the bottom-up
- A bottom-up approach to business support brings opportunity to Munich’s women entrepreneurs
- 07/04/2008
- Animation – a strange sort of job
- Animators help all sorts of things to happen in the rural Algarve
- 17/12/2007
- Local entrepreneurship in East Germany
- "Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany"
- 17/12/2007
- Employment in Europe Report
- ‘Key messages from the Employment in Europe 2007 Report’
- 11/12/2007
- Out of the informal economy
- Copenhagen’s Knowledge Centre for Ethnic Entrepreneurship offers outreach business advice to ethnic minorities
- 10/12/2007
- Speak up Europe 2007
- Campaign "Speak up Europe" 2007
Launched by the European movement with Commission support, the "Speak up Europe" campaign spreads itself in 300 local, national or European events, relayed by 25 local Internet portals in 20 languages, hosting online fora and multimedia content. Among other things, a short comic strip inspired by the Monty Python movie ’Brian’s life’.
- 10/12/2007
- Bibliography on Local Employment Development: related links
Download a short bibliography here.
Download a complete bibliography here.
- 27/11/2007
- European Climate Conference Rovigo 2008
- Climate Protection and Renewable Energy: Medium and Small Communities facing the Challenge.
2 - 4 April 2008 | Rovigo, Italy
- 14/11/2007
- Women hit the road
- Sisterly solidarity is helping women to start up on their own in the traditionally male field of goods haulage.
- 09/11/2007
- "Restructuring" forum: adaptation of SMEs to change
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a major component of the European economy. The EU’s 23 million SMEs constitute 99% of all businesses and account for up to 80% of jobs in some sectors, such as textiles, construction and furniture.
Although their base is local or regional, SMEs, just like large companies, must adapt to factors such as increasing international competition, movements of capital and its globalisation, the speed of technological change and the rapid cyclical shifts which characterise modern economies.
However, in dealing with these transformations, they do not have the same support structures, in terms of either financial or human resources, as large companies. What is more, the changes affecting them are largely unknown. This insufficient level of awareness can be seen as the corollary to the media coverage given to major restructurings in high-profile companies.
- 17/10/2007
- Social capital and job creation in rural Europe
- The ‘European foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions’ is organising this conference jointly with the Leader+ Portuguese network. The event aims to identify strategies for job creation in rural Europe. It will present the research findings of the foundation, namely that: ‘involvement in social networks positively affects economic development, leading to entrepreneurship and consequent economic growth, employment and social inclusion’.
- 03/10/2007
- PROGRESS for employment and social solidarity
- The EU’s new integrated programme for employment and social solidarity, PROGRESS, will provide a single framework, for the period 2007-2013, replacing four Community programmes that end in 2006. With a budget of €700 million, PROGRESS will address a wide range of partners, particularly at local level, in the Member States, candidate countries and EFTA countries.
- 24/09/2007
- European brand of territorial quality
- This conference organised by the LAG Pays Cathare, will focus on the
creation of a territorial quality brand on a European scale.
- 10/09/2007
- Immigration and asylum: the activities of the ERLAI network
- ERLAI (European and Local Authorities on Asylum and Immigration) is a Brussels-based network that holds regular meetings to exchange good practice in the reception and integration of immigrants in the EU regions and that liaises with the European institutions on legislative development and funding opportunities.
- 10/09/2007
- The Council of Europe’s “Europe Prize”: from 2007 to 2008.
- The “Europe Prize” is awarded by the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly to the towns and municipalities which are most active in promoting the European ideal. The 2007 Europe Prize was awarded to the German town of Nuremberg. Applications for the 2008 award be submitted by 31 December 2007.
- 10/09/2007
- "Telling the story. Communicating Cohesion Policy Together"
- This is the title of the conference organised by the European Commission (Directorate-General for Regional Policy and DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities) in Brussels on 26-27 November 2007. Around 450 representatives of the Structural Fund managing authorities will come together on these days to debate effective ways of communicating cohesion policy, a field that absorbs a large part of the EU budget and that affects the lives of Europe’s citizens very directly. The conference will also be an occasion for networking by the players involved in information actions in this field, especially at local level. A call for contributions is open until 21 September 2007.
Registration to attend the conference opens at the beginning of October.
- 04/09/2007
- Regions for Economic Change
- 04/09/2007
- Equality and diversity: new training programme (2007-2008)
- The European Commission has launched a new series of training seminars on anti-discrimination and diversity, aimed at NGOs and trade unions on one hand and at business on the other. They also include training for trainers. The programme started up in 2007 and will continue throughout 2008.
- 04/09/2007
- A cross-border blog
- Of course a blog knows no borders. Entitled "Tales from the Borderlands", this is a blog dedicated specifically to cross-border programmes.
- 03/06/2007
- The broadband gap: a European award and an Internet site to exchange good practices
- More than any others, less favoured regions and rural areas need Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) if they are to realise their potential in terms of growth, innovation and job creation. Yet it is in precisely these regions that high-speed connections are the least accessible. The conference entitled “Bridging the Broadband Gap”, held on 14 and 15 May in Brussels and organized by the European Commission, enabled some 600 delegates to discuss ways of meeting this challenge as well as providing the occasion for the 2007 European Broadband Projects Awards.
Last Updated: 24/04/2008