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Project: Injecting local flexibility in Education and Training systems and supporting local skills Strategy

The purpose of this analysis is to assess how local flexibility can be injected into national adult education and training systems, while reserving accountability; and to better understand how to create an enabling policy environment for the development of effective local skills strategies.

Enhancing the Local Development contributions of Higher Education Institutions - Czech Republic (doc)

Moravia-Silesia is one of the Czech Republic's most industrialised regions. Mining and medium-tech manufacturing - the sectors with the highest employment rates - are undergoing a process of rapid change.

ACTORS Italy - Cultural Attractors for Tourism and Employment in Southern Italian Regions - REVIEW

The OECD LEED Trento Centre in agreement with the Italian Government, assisted the Ministry of Culture, Heritage and Tourism (MIBACT) in the promotion and support of social and economic development activities in Southern Italian Regions (Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Apulia and Sicily) through the valorisation of their cultural, natural and landscape attractions.

Job Creation and Local Economic Development

Capacity building seminar: Promoting entrepreneurial education in schools (Potsdam, Germany)

The seminar contributed to the development of a tool that should allow schools to map the perceptions of learners, teachers, parents, and partner organisations as they relate to the entrepreneurial education opportunities (courses, extra-curricular work), resources and support available to teachers.

Supporting entrepreneurship in the vocational training system in Tunisia (doc)

The OECD is undertaking a series of reviews of entrepreneurship support in vocational training and higher training in selected regions and countries as part of its activity on skills and competencies for entrepreneurship.

Expert seminar: What works, and what doesn’t? Evidence-based approaches to tackling disadvantage (Paris, France)

This expert seminar focused on how countries can establish a policy framework to enable effective local action using an evidence-based approach, choosing between different measures at a time of limited resources.

Workshop: HEInnovate Workshop - Sofia, Bulgaria

Workshop on HEInnovate held in Sofia, Bulgaria

Capacity building seminar: Strengthening agricultural co-operatives in Kazakhstan (Trento, Italy)

The aim of this seminar was to build institutional capacities and transfer methodologies to Kazakh policy makers in areas that will help improve the country’s agricultural competitiveness and support the development of small-scale production. It drew upon on OECD know-how and the Trento experience in agricultural cooperatives.

High-Level Capacity Building Seminar: Supporting youth in entrepreneurship

The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.