Mission

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Regional Agency for Education, Training and
Employment
Mission Activities
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PRELIMINARY REMARKS

• An efficient labour market is a top priority for
  the Lombardy Region.
• Therefore the following need to be developed
• a regional system of employment-focused
  services created by public and private
  stakeholders
• instruments, intervention procedures and
  forms of governance that are suitable for the new
  competitive scenarios of the knowledge-based
  society.
• In accordance with Regional Law n. 22 dated 28
  September 2006 The labour market in Lombardy,
  the new Regional Agency for Education, Training
  and Employment was set up as a technical
  component of the regional system for implementing
  integrated policies relating to Education,
  Training and Employment.

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MISSION

• The Regional Agency for Education, Training and
  Employment
• flanks, by providing technical and scientific
  interventions, the activities carried out by the
  Region in human resource development policies, a
  crucial factor for achieving the competitive
  objectives of the Lombard system
• accompanies the process of reform in
  education and training and of the labour market
  and their integration
• supports the realization and definition of
  instruments for implementing active labour
  policies.
• The transversal strategic instrument is the Borsa
  Lavoro Lombardia Lombardy Job Bourse, whose
  fully operational functioning is a prime
  objective.

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COMPETENCES

• The Regional Agency for Education, Training and
  Employment implements the social and economic
  development policies of the Lombardy Region, by
  planning interventions using innovative methods
  and procedures.
• The Agency is responsible for
• the analysis and identification of needs for
  public interventions for planning action policies
  and strategies
• providing planning support for intervention
  policies and drawing up operational plans
• implementing the policies and managing the
  instruments supporting education, vocational
  training and the labour market in the region
• technical negotiation, linking the Public
  Administration to the civil society.

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ACTION PRINCIPLES

• Towards the system
• Planning interventions linked with the
  Lombardy Region and promoting the regional system
  as a whole.
• Developing administrative actions focused on
  cost savings, efficiency, effectiveness and
  flexibility.
• User-orientation, integrity and transparency
  for third parties.
• Towards ARIFL Regional Agency for Education,
  Training and Employment
• Promoting human resources in order to
  increase the professionalism, experience and
  competences possessed by each employee/collaborato
  r.
• Operational autonomy of the organizational
  structures.
• Developing a sense of belonging to an
  organism which pursues public objectives.

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GUIDELINES
The strategic functions of the Agency are based
on three guidelines that transversally
characterize the actions Internationalization Op
ening the boundaries of the Lombardy Region,
promoting knowledge and cases of excellence in an
international context, increasing the ability to
attract human capital and investments. Innovation
Economic promotion of research, experimenting
innovative methods and developing new
instruments, identifying future trends in the
development of new technologies, in particular as
regards the application of ICT in the area of
training and employment. Integration Development
of new instruments in order to create an
integrated system of welfare, economic and
territorial development policies and to increase
the competitiveness of SMEs geared to
subsidiarity and partnerships.
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Table 1 Summary of the intervention model
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Overall Activity Plan 2007-2009
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PRELIMINARY REMARKS
The activities and initiatives carried out by the
Agency in the period 2007-2009 focus on the
following intervention areas 1. accompanying
the creation of the new education system relating
to education and vocational training
2. promotion and development of the labour
market 3. promotion of the system of policy
integration.
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1. Accompanying the creation of the new education
system relating to education and training
The Region is implementing a consistent and
global reform of the education system by defining
a regional system that will integrate education
and vocational training, university and the
labour market in a new manner and will create a
system for certifying the competences that can be
used during a persons lifetime. The objective
of the Agency is to support the development of a
quality education and training system throughout
the learning cycle, from services relating to
rights-duties in the area of education to the
promotion of lifelong learning
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2. Promotion and development of the labour market
The regional reform of the labour market was
started with Regional Law n. 22/06. The
objective of the Agency is to support the process
of reform and modernization of the regional
labour market by proposing innovative solutions
and suitable instruments for creating a regional
network of employment-focused services.
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3. Realization of a policy integration system
The issue of policy integration is one of the key
principles on which reforms concerning employment
and the education system are based and they have
led to the creation of the new Agency. The
objective of the Agency is to foster the
integration of education and training policies
with polcies concerning labour, welfare and
competitiveness, involving the Enlarged Regional
System and enhancing the specificity of
stakeholders geared to subsidiarity and
partnerships.
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Table 2 Summary of the activity frameworks and
areas
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Main projects in progress
1. LABORA 2. ESF MULTI MEASURE 3. CIVIL
SERVICE 4. EDUCATION REFORM
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Projects in progress first implementation of the
Regional Action Plan
Regional Programme for promoting human
resources, Project co-funded by MLPS and Regione
Lombardia.
Three intervention frameworks to foster the
creation of the network and to qualify it by
managing the politicies through personalized
endownments and intervention plans ALPHA
FRAMEWORK Specialized higher training school
for labour market operators BETA FRAMEWORK
persons who risk social exclusion GAMMA
FRAMEWORK atypical jobs
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Projects in progress education-work integration
ESF Multi Measure
Two workshops for the Employment and Education
Training frameworks. Coordination of 46
projects.
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Projects in progress Welfare
Civil Service
Technical assistance in implementing a governance
structure of the Lombard voluntary civil service
network system. Objective to support the G.D.
in implementing regional law n. 2 dated 3 January
2006 Civil Service in Lombardy, integrating the
two functions that this law assigns to the
Lombard civil service for young people acquiring
new competences in their training and
professional paths and gaining a greater
awareness and responsibility of human rights and
social issues. Programme Phase I 2007
Extended Technical Assistance Project, including
the feasibility study of the operational
model. Phase II 2008 - Implementation of the
management model with the necessary delegation of
functions to the Agency. Phase III 2009 Fully
operational functioning of the model
implementation of strategic actions for the
correct positioning of the Lombard Civil Service.
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Projects in progress education reform
Three-year course
Professional standards
Definition of the operational model of training
offer planning
Rights-Duties in Education/ Training
Four-year course
Role of Provinces and Municipalities
Definition of the organization, repertory,
training and professional standards
5th year (additional year)
Repertory of paths
Upper Education
Regional Service Plan
Minimum educational standards for learning
Minimum credit standards
Student register
Initial training and retraining
Re-definition of the organization and
administration of the education system
Minimum standards for supply of services
(Accreditation)
Definition of the staff headcount (for school
institutes that have not been transferred)
Staff management
Apprenticeship art.48
Alternance
School-Traineeship
Education ReformImplementation Frameworks
School and training autonomy
Conventional paths
Basic training
Lifelong learning
Acquired in informal and non formal contexts
Unification of instruments around the person the
endownment
Re-definition of the procedures for allocation
financial resources
Verification and certification of competences
Final Exams
Intermediate
Competence Certification System
System cost-savings
Evaluation of credits
To certifiy competences acquired in informal and
non formal contexts
Of the system and policies
Minimum standards for the certification of
competences
Support for self-evaluation of the Training
Institutions
Evaluation system
To certify competences acquired in a formal
framework
Citizens education record booklet
Of the Training Institutions
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Implementation of the Regional Law on the
education system
Definition of the organization repertory,
training and professional standards
Competence certification system
Re-definition of the organization and
administration of the education system
Re-definition of the method of allocating
financial resources
Evaluation system
Definition of the operational model of planning
the training offer
A.R.I.F.L. Technical Assistance