Tackling long-term unemployment amongst vulnerable groups

This LEED project will analyse the multiple factors leading to long-term unemployment amongst vulnerable groups at the local level and review local measures put in place to support labour market integration and local partnerships working to tackle this issue.

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• Capacity building seminar: Getting the long-term unemployed back into work - New finance and delivery mechanisms (Trento, Italy)

Local development capacity assessment in EU candidate countries and potential candidates in the Western Balkans

This joint initiative by the European Commission Enlargement Directorate-General and the OECD LEED Programme is focused on providing an assessment of the current local development capacity in view of EU accession in the EU Candidate countries and potential candidates in the Western Balkans.

Conference: Improving social inclusion at the local level through the social economy. Presentation of the OECD report (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

This conference presented the report prepared for Slovenia as part of the OECD LEED "Improving social inclusion at the local level through the social economy" project in the framework of the Forum on Social Innovations.

Conference: Shrinkage in Europe: causes, effects and policy strategies (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Within the conference discussing how shrinkage has become a pressing problem in many parts of Europe, the LEED programme is organising a workshop which especially focuses on policies and programs to foster skills, employment development and job creation in areas of shrinkage.

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• Local scenarios of demographic change - Policies and strategies for sustainable development, skills and employment

Job creation through social entrepreneurship and the social economy

This LEED project will assess the job creation potential of the social economy in various institutional frameworks, examine the conditions under which the contribution of social economy organisations to employment can be maximised and identify obstacles and possible solutions.

Reviews on boosting local entrepreneurship and enterprise creation

This LEED project will examine the capacity of local economies to support new enterprise creation and the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including in the social enterprise sector, and how it can be enhanced through local economic and employment development policies.

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• Review: Boosting local entrepreneurship and enterprise creation in Lombardy region (Italy) - 2012

Project: Skills for greener jobs in a local labour market context

This study will analyse how selected local areas/industry clusters identify the specific skills needed to support green growth and how related skills policies and practices can be made more effective in supporting their provision and accelerating transition to a low-carbon economy.

Project: Local economic strategies for shrinking and ageing labour markets

The project will identify the policy levers and instruments that can be helpful in the design of strategies to accompany the transition to older local labour markets, and identify how national policy frameworks can best support these transformations.

Economic Prosperity and Social Cohesion: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an OECD Perspective

Read the speech by OECD Deputy Secretary General, Aart de Geus, during the opening session of the 10th International Entrepreneurship Forum, held in Bahrain on 9-11 January 2011.

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• 10th International Entrepreneurship Forum, 9-11 Jan 2011 (Bahrain)

Local scenarios of demographic change

This LEED project aims to provide strategic guidelines for governments and organisations involved in the implementation of employment and skills development programmes at the local level on how better confront demographic changes.

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• European Investment Bank's Roundtable at European Regional Science Association Congress 2012 - SUMMARY NOTE