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News & Events
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24-Sep-2008
Short videos (5 minutes maximum) summarise the key concepts of the issues addressed in the Capacity Building Seminar for Partnerships on "Designing and Delivering Skills Strategies for Cities", Trento, Italy, 11-13 June 2008. You can also listen to the contributors’ speeches (25 minutes maximum) or download their presentations.
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19-Nov-2007
The compendium is part of the project on "Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany"carried out by the OECD and the Federal Ministry of Housing, Land, Construction, Transport and Urban Affairs. The compendium is built of several themes of relevance to local entrepreneurship development in East Germany. It brings together recommendations, International learning models and good practice in East Germany.
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30-Aug-2007
The OECD LEED Programme has just released a report on "Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy” which gathers the experience of the two capacity building seminars organised by the Trento Centre for Local Development in close co-operation with the Forum office unit at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Vienna Austria.
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22-Aug-2007
This review series aims to assist policy makers to develop local strategies and programmes to promote competitiveness in the globalising knowledge economy through strengthening innovation and internationalisation. Andalusia in Spain is the first region to take part in these reviews. Cities and regions interested in participating in this series, are invited to contact the OECD Secretariat.
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17-Jul-2007
The Action Statement provides guidelines for government to stimulate vertical and cross-sector co-ordination around local economic and employment development issues.
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24-Nov-2006
The LEED Programme has released the results of the study on local level initiatives to foster the integration of immigrant groups, carried out in cooperation with the Non-Member Economies and International Migration Division (NEIM). Participating countries include Canada, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and UK. The full report is available as an OECD publication.
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03-Jul-2007
This study was carried out in 2007. An OECD publication will be released in June 2008 with a set of recommendations on how best to adapt the policy framework to enhance the entrepreneurship and cluster development in a given area. This review draws on an in-depth analysis of the Grenoble cluster in France and other six international clusters across the OECD.
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22-Jan-2007
This co-operative project between the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and the OECD provides an opportunity for participants in East Germany to stand back and reflect on their overall options, needs and priorities and by facilitating an international exchange of information on innovations and best practices from a range of OECD Member countries.
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05-Dec-2006
Well-managed immigration flows offer benefits both for host countries and for migrants and their families. But the effective integration of immigrants into the societies of the countries where they settle is crucial, and this requires commitment and action at national and local level.
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08-Aug-2006
LEED has launched this comprehensive site with over 300 documents focusing on partnerships and related policy fields. The database includes information published by public organisations, research institutions, and international organisations. This activity is carried out within the framework of the LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance.
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Events
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from 10-Nov-2008 to 12-Nov-2008
The objective of this 2.5-day seminar is to improve the functioning of local partnerships. The seminar is aimed at local partnership practitioners and their counterparts in local and national governments. The seminar will focus on three main themes: (i) what makes local partnership building successful?; (ii) what are the key elements of a national support framework for local development partnerships?; and (iii) how to manage and improve performance?
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from 11-Jun-2008 to 13-Jun-2008
The objective of this seminar was to improve the capacity of partnerships to design and deliver integrated skills strategies. It focused on three main themes: (i) understanding local skills needs; (ii) building an integrated skills strategy and (iii) assessing the impact: moving from quantitative to qualitative assessment.
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from 17-Apr-2008 to 19-Apr-2008
Should central government leave economic and employment development to local policy makers? Employment ministers from OECD countries, including Finland, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, will address such questions at a conference in Venice, Italy, from 17-19 April 2008.
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from 01-Jan-2007 to 31-Jul-2007
The review was a joint project between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It was implemented by the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development, the USAID Mission to Croatia and USAID’s partner institution World Learning.
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on 10-Dec-2007
Within the framework of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, the Portuguese Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity organised, in partnership with the OECD LEED Programme and the European Commission, a seminar on “Development of Skills, Local Development and Partnerships”.
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