New Skills for New Jobs

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New Skills for New Jobs
Challenges and Partnerships in Central Denmark
Region

• Lars Vildbrad, Deputy Director
• Regional Development, Central Denmark Region

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Local government reform
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The new regions
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East - West
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Regional tasks

• Health health service, hospitals, GPs and
  medical specialists
• Psychiatry and social care
• Regional development regional spatial planning
  and regional development Business development,
  education, employment, culture, and tourism.

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Structure
Regional Council 41 members
Growth Forum 20 members
Coordinative Committee Chairman and 19 mayors
Executive committee 19 members
Committees
Regional administration
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Growth Forum strategic focus

• Education and skills development
• Innovation and it
• Entrepreneurship and business development
• Rural development
• Internationalisation
• Clusters
• Energy and environment
• Foods
• Business/Health

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New Challenges

• A growing (national) need for qualifications
• More young people must seek education at a higher
  level than primary and secondary lower level -
  20 do not!!
• An active adult and further educational system
  which can continuously educate people to match
  the demand for new qualifications.
• Lifelong learning as an important focus area
  for the companies in Denmark in order to meet the
  challenges in a globalised knowledge economy.

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The necessary interaction between educational
institutions and companies
Aarhus University 10.000 employees 28.000
students
Private sector
Labour market
VIA University College 2.000 employees 15.000
full-time students several thousand part time
students
Public sector
Youth education and adult education and training
Secondary school (38)
Business college (20)
Technical college (20)
Adult educational center (11)
Primary school
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So what have we done in Central Denmark Region?

• It is a regional task to enable the relevant
  match between qualifications demanded and
  supplied
• KompetenceMidt A network and partnership
  organization 1 board and 6 partnerships
• Marketplace for highly educated employees
• Entrepreneurship part of the education
• How to integrate the foreign students and make
  them stay in Denmark
• Scientific and engineering

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KompetenceMidt
Job center
Other networks
Adult education center
Labour market Representatives
Job center
Business College
Social and health care school
Technical College
Language school
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Business bureau
Education Center
Job center
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Market place for highly educated employees

• Focus on demand as well as supply
• Canvassing SMEs regarding their possible need for
  highly educated employees (using student
  internships/projects as an ice breaker)
• Initiatives on universities aimed at increasing
  students interest in SMEs as their future
  workplace
• Broad scope, not only engineers and business
  economists!

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Some of the positive results

• A single entrance to further education in Central
  Denmark
• 6 well-functioning partnerships (they present to
  the companies the entire range of education
  offers)
• A cooperation between the consultants of the
  business service system and the consultants of
  the educational institutions
• A well-functioning corps of educational
  consultants organized in partnerships

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Key messages

• The Danish Flexicurity Model encouragement to
  seek education
• One entrance for companies and for employees -
  to new qualifications
• Flexibility possibility to adapt the
  educational supply in order til meet the demand
• Focus the importance of regional focus and
  partnerships