Promoting the Lisbon agenda: partnership, transnationality and innovation

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Promoting the Lisbon agendapartnership,
transnationality and innovation
EQUAL Final Conference

• Peter Stub Jørgensen
• May 29 2008

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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

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The innovative design of EQUAL

• Social innovation
• Learning from other countries
• Gender mainstreaming
• Partnerships

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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

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Innovation

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

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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

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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!

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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