LEED Programme (Local Economic and Employment Development )

LEED's mission is to contribute to the creation of more and better jobs through effective policy implementation, innovative practices, stronger capacities and integrated strategies at the local level. Read more about what LEED does  ...    

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International Summer School for cooperation and local development - Third edition (Trento, Italy)

from 17-Jul-2012 to 27-Jul-2012

The scope of the School is to organise specialised courses on socio-economic development and to create an international platform to exchange experiences and knowledge between public officers and practitioners from OECD member and non member countries that deals with cooperation and local development issues. The third edition of the Summer School on “Community and local development: building strategies for local development" will take place from 17 to 27 July 2012 in Trento. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2012. Working language: Spanish.

Capacity building seminar: Strategic approaches to demographic change in Russia and Eastern Europe (Trento, Italy)

from 03-Jul-2012 to 04-Jul-2012

The seminar is targeted at national, regional and local practitioners who deal with anticipating and managing demographic changes in Russia and Eastern European countries and want to interchange experiences and approaches with other experts from OECD countries. Deadline for applications: Friday 8 June 2012.

Capacity building seminar: Financing business start-up by under-represented groups (Trento, Italy)

from 27-Jun-2012 to 29-Jun-2012

This seminar is part of a three-year programme of cooperation between the European Commission and the OECD LEED Programme to monitor and report on entrepreneurial activity in Europe and related public policies and actions. This seminar will provide an opportunity for policy-makers to discuss policy options, objectives, design and results for programmes that support access to business start-up financing by under-represented groups.

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

from 21-Jun-2012 to 22-Jun-2012

To find effective financing and delivery mechanisms to address long-term unemployment is a challenge which practitioners and policy-makers confront. The seminar will review innovations in these areas and reflect on how they can be used to support the long-term unemployed into employment. Deadline for applications: Friday 25 May 2012.

Workshops: Indicators of local transition to low-carbon economy (Ghent, Belgium and Belval, Luxemburg)

from 11-Jun-2012 to 12-Jun-2012

These workshops will discuss the cross border cluster “Bio Based Europe” in the provinces Western-Flanders, Eastern-Flanders and Zeeland, and the cross border area of the Belval, Ecocité and Pôle Européen de Développement-Longwy. The workshops are jointly organised by the  OECD LEED Programme and the  Benelux Union within the framework of the OECD LEED Project on measuring the potential of green growth - Indicators of local transition to a low-carbon economy.

Round-table: Divided we stand - Why inequality keeps rising (Trento, Italy)

on 01-Jun-2012

In the framework of the 7th Festival of Economics on "Life cycles and intergenerational transfers", the OECD LEED Trento Centre, in cooperation with the School on Local Development of the University of Trento, will organise a round-table session on "Divided we stand: Why inequality keeps rising", which will take place at the OECD Trento Centre (Vicolo S. Marco, 1) on Friday 1 June at 11.00 a.m.. Sergio Arzeni, Director of the CFE Directorate and Barbara Ischinger, Director of the OECD Directorate for Education will contribute to the discussion.

 

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