Transcript JCP Conference Issues for CROW conference

REGIONS FOR ECONOMIC CHANGE – SHARING EXCELLENCE
Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges
The Age Alliance Network
Working for Older Workers
“JobMentoring for Unemployed 50+
The Western Mecklenburg Experience
Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges
THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK
The Transnational Experience:
Focussed on the same target:
(Integration of disadvantaged target groups)
JobMentoring as joint Tool
Study Visits with strategic partners were very
beneficial (Key Players of the employment
agency and business-manager were involved)
Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges
THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK
All National Projects Have Contributed to the Network
NTI has in Particular:
 Developed the Innovation-Team Concept; merging
employed with unemployed worker and trained them
 Applied and Developed the Role of Job Mentors;
connection between companies and jobseeker
 Introduced the Idea of Patchworking, “new” for Western
Mecklenburg
Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges
THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK
Mainstreaming from the Network
 Dissemination of the idea of JobMentoring in the region
 Take Account of Age Alliance Mentoring Experience
 “National network age management” Germany
 Implementation and application of the method in the
RegioVision GmbH Schwerin 2007
 Integration of: ARGE (Employment Agency),
Municipality of Schwerin Entrepreneurs’ Assoc.,
Ministry of Economy
 Extension of the application field to the other ARGE in
the region of Western Mecklenburg
Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges
THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK
Challenges and Successes in the Policy Arena
 Sensitization of the management of employment
agencies; funding increase for “50+” projects
 Sensitization of employers; knowledge of best practice
in other counties
 Improvement of further education measures; changing
in vocational training
 Improvement in the integration of people 50plus;
employment rates increased in the last two years
Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges
THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK
Challenges for the Future
 Geographic enlargement of the field of activities
to Europe; particularly the new member states in the east
 Broadening of target groups – 12% of Migrants are
unemployed in my hometown Schwerin
 Improvement of methods - knowledge exchange; transfer
of best practice among EQUAL-Partnerships (Germany
and Europe)
Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges
THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK
Contact
Jürgen Brandt
RegioVision GmbH Schwerin
+49-385-200314-11
www.regiovision-schwerin.de
[email protected]