Local Employment Partnerships in an Enlarging Europe Anette Scoppetta Klaus Schuch European Forum on Local Development and Employment ZENTRUM FÜR SOZIALE INNOVATION CENTRE 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 of Labour Provincial School Board Provincial Government Federal Office of Social Affairs Labour Market Service Economic Chamber Chamber of Agriculture Educational Institutions Federation of Industry 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 Vorarlberg Salz- burg Upper Austria Lower Austria Styria Carinthia Vienna Regional managers for 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 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

ZENTRUM FÜR SOZIALE INNOVATION CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION Anette Scoppetta Klaus Schuch