The European Employment Strategy facing national labour market reforms and EU enlargement BAREE

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The European Employment Strategy facing national
labour market reforms and EU enlargement -BAREE-
The European Employment Strategy facingnational
labour market reforms and EU enlargement- BAREE
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• Janine Tavangarian
• ReFIT e.V.e

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1. General Approach 1.1 Facts about the
regional labour market of Thuringia 1.2 The
Thuringian Operational Programme 1.3 National
labour market reform Hartz IV 2. BAREE-
Project description, preliminary results 2.1
Main goals of the project 2.2 Activities 2.3
Preliminary results
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• General Approach
• 1.1 Thuringia
• Inhabitants about 2.4 mio.
• Capital Erfurt (200.000 inhabitants)
• Mostly rural
• High Tech centres Jena, Ilmenau
• 90 of the companies are SME
• Unemployment rate 16,6 (08/05)

Map of Germany
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1.2 The Thuringian Operational
Programme Topic 1 Promotion of competitiveness
of regional economy, especially of
SMEs Topic 2 Promotion of infrastructureTopic
3 Safety and impovement of Environment Topic 4
Promotion of workforce as well as equal
opportunities Topic 5 rural development
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• 1.3 National labour market reform Hartz
• Main principle Fördern und fordern (support
  and challenge), i.e. balance between state
  provision and own initiative of citizens
• Merging of unemployment support and social
  welfare
• New Case-Management aiming at holistic support
  (job placement, debt counselling, social advice,
  drug prevention etc.)
• Giving access for all employable people to the
  labour market
• by integrating all in the job placement
• by employment possibilities for allowance,
  (1-Jobs) etc.

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• 2. BAREE
• dissemination of knowledge on the EES
• raising awareness
• - for the challenges on the European labour
  market and
• - for the relationships between the employment
  policies on local and regional level and
  national and European strategies
• - for the specifics of the New Member States
• discussing implementation of EES on local level
  with stakeholders

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• 2.1 Main targets of the project
• Transfer of the main points of the EES to the
  regional requirements
• Observation and analysis of the impacts of these
  national reforms on local and regional
  decision-makers, interest groups and actors
• Raising awareness for the necessity of
  developing and implementing regional and local
  employment strategies within the European
  context
• Minimization of information deficits
• Dissemination of the general aim of the EES
• Dissemination of the specific requirements of
  the region of Thuringia
• Documentation of the aim of the EES on an
  interactive Internet platform
• Proposals for an improved information and
  dissemination strategy

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• 2.2 Activities
• Local Workshop
• Interactive Webplatform
• Survey on current state of knowledge and
  implementation of EES
• Analyse of regional print media
• National Workshop
• Transnational Workshop
• Analyse of collected data
• Suggestions for improved dissemination strategy

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• 2.3 Preliminary results
• Little knowledge about the EES between managers
  and employees
• Good knowledge about the EES between unemployed
• Dissemination and knowledge of EES contents on
  regional and local level is very low
• Low practical use of contents of EES
• Demand for more dissemination of EES in local
  media and by local and regional authorities

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Janine Tavangarian ReFIT e.V. Ernst-Haeckel-Platz
5/6 07745 Jena / Germany Email
j.tavangarian_at_refit.de Tel. [phone]
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