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from 03-Dec-2011 to 07-Dec-2011
The highly interactive 5-day capacity building seminar brought together national, regional, and local policy-makers and practitioners, in the Mediterranean region, to work with OECD and international experts in order to share and increase knowledge and awareness on tourism and local development in the Mediterranean region, by focusing also on the following relevant issues: (i) governance; (ii) entrepreneurship and job creation; (iii) skills; and (iv) livability, landscape and global events.
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from 23-Nov-2011 to 24-Nov-2011
The LEED Programme has been a Knowledge Partner to the Urban Investment Network since its creation and supports this annual Summit. Investment strategies and financial tools lie at the heart of our work on Delivering Local Development and are fundamental to achieving growth and job creation as localities more forward from the crisis. This event addressed important issues facing local leaders and built on three decades of LEED engagement with public and private sectors.
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from 25-Oct-2011 to 28-Oct-2011
This 3.5-day seminar discussed how to tackle some of the primary challenges SMEs face, addressing the following issues related to SME policy tools and instruments: (i) business cooperation and local governance; (ii) technology, innovation and green growth; and (iii) access to finance. The seminar was addressed to participants from Eastern Europe and South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine - committed to the topic of SME development and policy, and willing to contribute to build a highly interactive environment.
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from 12-Oct-2011 to 14-Oct-2011
The purpose of the workshop was to feed into the overall goal of the OECD LEED project on "Measuring the potential of green growth - Indicators of local transition to a low-carbon economy " proposing a common set of key indicators to measure the potential of green growth and validate the local needs for specific green growth indicators. The workshop discussed practices and experiences from the case of Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster, insights from international experts and other OECD experiences. By invitation only.
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from 13-Oct-2011 to 14-Oct-2011
The conference reviewed and drew lessons from successful past experiences and innovative solutions available today to identify how labour market policy, skills development and training policies can contribute to sustainable employment creation, through co-ordination with long-term economic development and local strategies. The event was structured around four thematic issues: (i) long term unemployment; (ii) youth unemployment;(iii) social economy; and (iv) early childhood supports.
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from 19-Sep-2011 to 21-Sep-2011
The conference aimed to lift social innovation on par with highly valued innovations in business and technology. This requires solid foundations of an extended innovation paradigm and methodologies suitable to identify and measure social innovations in crucial areas of social development, such as sustainability, demographic change, economy and labour, social inclusion. In 14 thematic panels the conference determined the most needed social innovations and adequate approaches of research. Full information can be found at http://www.socialinnovation2011.eu.
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on 18-Jul-2011
Organised by the Union For the Mediterranean in cooperation with LEED and the City of Barcelona, this conference brought together Ministries of Labour, Ministries of Education and practitioners to discuss local skills development and its link to local job creation and sustainable growth. The meeting discussed operational pathways to address high youth unemployment as well as skills development for women’s integration in local labour markets and developing the best environment for SMEs to thrive.
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from 27-Sep-2011 to 29-Sep-2011
Representatives from governments and employment agencies across Asia and the OECD discussed how to overcome the lack of co-ordination between labour market policy and vocational training as a clear impediment to successful skills development in developing Asia. This conference dealt with how to design and finance integrated skills strategies in practice, with a particular focus on how successful partnerships between education and industry can be built, reaching SMEs in both the formal and informal economy. By invitation only.
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on 22-Jun-2011
This workshop provided an opportunity to discuss ways to increase the effectiveness of actions to boost skills development to stimulate good quality employment both abroad and in the country. How can a joined-up approach be taken locally? How can skills development best support sustainable economic development in the country and better quality employment abroad? What are the international lessons applicable to Cambodia in training workers for work abroad and re-integrating them in the local labour market?
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on 08-Jul-2011
High level policy makers, economists and representatives of international and European institutions discussed the future of global economic and financial development and debated the crucial role played by regions and localities in the recovery and development of economic competitiveness. The conference provided a means to exchange good practice and drew up policy recommendation to achieve tangible results. Aart de Geus, OECD Deputy Secretary General, and Sergio Arzeni, Director of the CFE Directorate, contributed to the discussion.
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