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Promoting the Lisbon agenda: partnership, transnationality and innovation

EQUAL Final Conference . Promoting the Lisbon agenda: partnership, transnationality and innovation. Walter Faber June 19, 2008. What is EQUAL?. Objective: to overcome social exclusion and discrimination :. in the workplace, in accessing employment. A 6 years programme

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Promoting the Lisbon agenda: partnership, transnationality and innovation

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  1. EQUAL Final Conference Promoting the Lisbon agenda:partnership, transnationality and innovation Walter Faber June 19, 2008

  2. What is EQUAL? • Objective: to overcome social exclusion and discrimination: • in the workplace, • in accessing employment • A 6 years programme • An ESF investment of more than € 3bn • More than 3,000 partnerships with more than 20,000 partners • Reached over 200,000 disadvantaged people

  3. The innovative design of EQUAL • Social innovation • Learning from other countries • Gender mainstreaming • Partnerships

  4. The Lisbon reform Agenda calls for partnerships at all levels • " to facilitate and speed up delivery of the reforms needed to boost growth and employment". • Partnership "must bring solid added value if it is to produce tangible and swift results". • Factors for success • - Mobilise the different players to work together • - Ensure that the reform objectives and issues are taken on board by all stakeholders

  5. Innovation • Results in • Shared problem view • Confidence in the advantages of innovative solutions • Tested good practice • Acceptance, mobilisation and commitment of key stakeholders

  6. What innovative partnerships between strategic stakeholders achieved • Sustainable bridges and interfaces to facilitate transition between institutions and work environments • school  apprenticeship  work • unemployment  work • prison  (self-) employment • inactivity/parental leave work • informal work  self-employment • migration work • full-time work part-time work • form caring family members/ friends work and training • work retirement • combining work with lifelong learning • reconciling work with family/private life

  7. Sustainability of Innovations • Sustainable innovations have to demonstrate that they are • suitable approaches • feasible solutions • acceptable to the assisted target groups, administrations and stakeholders • Continuous encouragement and support - EQUAL results should not be stored in an ESF museum!

  8. Transnational cooperation under the ESF 2007 -2013 • Total budget of dedicated priorities: 1,43 billion € • Estimated total budget for transnational and interregional cooperation: 3 billion € • Popular themes for transnational cooperation: • disadvantaged, discrimination, diversity • gender and work/life balance • LLL in firms, entrepreneurship and innovation • promoting partnerships • Improving human capital: Reforms in education and training systems

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