Développement économique et création d'emplois locaux (LEED)

Séminaire de renforcement des capacités: les territoires qualifiés - le développement du tourisme Nouveau dans les pays méditerranéens (Trento, Italie)

du 04-déc.-2011 au 07-déc.-2011

Les 4 journées intéractives de séminaire du renforcement des capacités réuniront les responsables politiques nationaux, régionaux et locaux et les praticiens de la région méditerranéenne, pour travailler avec l'OCDE afin de partager et d'accroître la connaissance sur le tourisme et le développement local dans la région méditerranéenne, en se concentrant également sur les questions pertinentes suivantes: (i) la gouvernance, (ii) l'entrepreneuriat et la création d'emplois, (iii) les compétences, et (iv) l'habitabilité, le paysage et les événements mondiaux.

Conference: Urban Investment Network Summit 2011 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

du 23-nov.-2011 au 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.

Capacity building seminar: Implementing SME policy tools in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus (Trento, Italy)

du 25-oct.-2011 au 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.

Workshop: Measuring the potential of green growth (Copenhagen, Denmark)

du 12-oct.-2011 au 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.

Conference: Building quality jobs in the recovery (Dublin, Ireland)

du 13-oct.-2011 au 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.

Conference: Challenge social innovation - Innovating innovation by research, 100 years after Schumpeter (Vienna, Austria)

du 19-sept.-2011 au 21-sept.-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.

Conference: Local employment, skills and entrepreneurship strategies in the Mediterranean - Developing pathways for the future (Barcelona, Spain)

le 18-juil.-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.

Conference: An integrated approach to skills - Designing and financing effective strategies (Shanghai, People's Republic of China)

du 27-sept.-2011 au 29-sept.-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.

Workshop: Skills development for stronger local economic development and better job opportunities abroad (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

le 22-juin-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?

Conference: Local and regional strategies to relaunch economic and employment development (Trento, Italy)

le 08-juil.-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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