Partnership Project - Improving opportunities

Lifelong Learning Programme
LdV – Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the
Labour Market for Marginalised Communities”
Mrs. Elena Čermáková, Labour Office Czech Republic
Local Office in Jablonec nad Nisou
Mr. Gerard Griffin – Department of Education and Skills,
National Co-ordination Unit for Youthreach/VTOS, Ireland
Final Conference in Wroclaw
June 25, 2013
Prezentacja informacji o realizacji projektu
• Urząd Pracy w Jablonecu nad Nisou (republika Czeska) jako
koordynator we współpracy z pozostałymi partnerami złożył projekt
pod nazwą „Rozwijanie możliwości zatrudnienia na rynku pracy dla
społeczności zmarginalizowanych”.
• Decyzja o realizacji tego projektu oparta była na informacjach
płynacych z europejskiego z rynku pracy mówiących o złej sytuacji w
kwestii zatrudnienia, wysokich wskaźnikach bezrobocia. Projekt miał
przyczynić się do poprawy obecnej sytuacji w poszczególnych
krajach partnerskich.
• Celem projektu była wymiana modeli najlepszych praktyk, które
zostały opracowane w poszczególnych krajach partnerskich przez
organizacje wspierające społeczności zmarginalizowane, które to
mają trudności z dostępem otwartego rynku pracy i zatrudnienia a
także często niewielki udział w rynku edukacji i szkoleń.
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Ogólne informacje o projekcie
Każdy z Partnerów projektu aranżował spotkania, seminaria, konferencje tematyczne
poruszające zagadnienia związane ze społecznościami marginalizowanymi.
Poszczeghólni Partnerzy projektu byli odpowiedzialny za całość spotkania, to znaczy
za zabezpieczenie miejsca, prelegentów, dokumentowanie sprzebiegu spotkania,
organizowaniem wizyt studyjnych w lokalnych instytucjach, organizacjach czy
centrach, aby pokazać w praktyce omawiany podczas konferencji temat. Kluczowe
tematy poruszane podczas seminariów, konferencji w krajach partnerskich były
następujące:
1) Przedwcześnie opuszczający system edukacji.
2) Dostęp spełeczności mniejszościowych do usług rynku pracy.
3) Dostęp długotrawle bezrobotnych do usług rynku pracy.
4) Programy edukacyjne dla osób bezrobotnych i związane z nimi standardy
jakości usług.
5) Practice firms i inne działania
i przedsiębiorczośc młodyh ludzi.
wspierające
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Partners
Labour Office CZ - contact office Jablonec nad Nisou
The Labour Office CZ is a state funded unit responsible for employment,
mediation of jobs for applicants, improvement of counselling and
educational services, supporting the creation of new jobs, projects
supported by EU, state social support benefits etc.
EDUCA - vzdělávací centrum, s.r.o.
EDUCA – vzdělávací centrum is a small private school based and
functioning in the field of lifelong adult education provision. Educa
prepares and organizes training in various skills: languages, IT,
accountancy and taxes, soft-skills etc.
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Partners
Co Clare VEC (County Clare Vocational Education Committee)
Professional Education Committee (VEC) is the governing body of the regional
education, which mainly provides vocational education and adult and futher
education in the Republic of Ireland. Co. Clare VEC operates in County Clare
in the west of Ireland.
The Lower Silesian Regional Labour Office
Dolnośląski Wojewódzki Urząd Pracy (DWUP) is an organisational unit of
the self-governmental administration. Its role is to analyse the labour
market, realise the activities co-financed from the ESF, EURES services,
to provide vocational counselling, life-long learning activities and specific
employment opportunities in the labour market.
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Partners
Trabzon Provincial Directorate of National Education
Trabzon Provincial Directorate of National Education is a governmental public
authority. It provides training in the province of Trabzon in Eastern Turkey,
where it operates five professional training centers and 13 national training
centers.
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Aim of project
• The aim of the project was to find new ways of working with people who
are marginalised from society and not engaged in the workforce or in
education and training programmes provided in the partnership countries.
The project focused on key managers working with the organisations
involved in the partnership and as a result of the learning in the project is to
share the best practice that will impact on adults and young people from
marginalised communities who engage with the services available in the
participating organisations.
The project has addressed the following:
• Working with minorities (Roma community, Travellers in Ireland).
• Increasing the knowledge of the participants especially the managers of
human resource sections of the organisations involved in the partnership in
relation to working with marginalised communities.
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Objectives
• Enable the key managers to exchange experiences on aspects of the
labour market and the European system of education operating in the
partnership countries.
• Examination of career counselling and general educational guidance for
those students of marginalised backgrounds was key to the project.
• The outcomes of the project will impact on policy developments within
education and training programmes/institutions
for people who are
marginalised from society.
• The approach that was adopted in the project was be through lectures,
general discussion, groupwork,workshops, exploration and visits to centres
projects that engage with members of marginalised communities. The
seminars/conferences were experiential in nature and provided not only a
theoretical framework for key managers in their work in their own
organisation but also many practical ideas and experience.
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Project Schedule
1
2
3
14 – 16
Jablonec n. Nisou (Czech
Kick-off meeting.
November 2011 Republic)
11 January
Jablonec n. Nisou (Czech
Organizational meeting between Polish and Czech Partners.
2012
Republic)
17 – 20 January Jablonec n. Nisou (Czech
Organizational meeting between Polish and Czech Partners.
2012
Republic)
4
29 February – 2
Trabzon (Turkey)
March 2012
Practice firms and activities directing student/learners to the labour market.
5
22 – 25 April
2012
Ennis (Ireland)
Travellers and Roma.
Long Term Unemployed.
6
10 – 12 June
2012
Wałbrzych, (Poland)
Actions developed for long–term unemployed and people at risk of marginalization,
Prevention early school leaving
7
24 – 26 October
Ennis (Ireland)
2012
8
1 – 5 December
Educational Programmes for the Unemployed and issues concerning quality of
Liberec (Czech Republic)
2012
education
9
26 – 30 January
Trabzon (Turkey)
2013
Vocational Guidance and Practice Firms Method.
10
13 – 17 April
2013
Dublin (Ireland)
Support marginalised communities, having poor participation in education and training
programmes.
11
23 – 25 June
2013
Wrocław (Poland)
Final Conference
Long Term Unemployment
Support available for unemployed, ESOL programme, University of Limerick - Access
Programme, Youthreach
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“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”
Outcomes of Project for Ireland
• Clear concrete data collated on the themes during the project
• Greater Interagency connectivity between the different
programmes services within the organisation
• Greater communication between personnel within the
organisation
• Greater level of awareness of the cross cutting issues on the
different themes by key people within the organisation
• Opportunity to network for staff at European level
• Another opportunity to see examples of good practice in
relation to the themes of the project
Irish Context for Project: Role of VET in
Ireland
• Backdrop of short and medium term education and training policy
objectives and drivers of changing skills needs within enterprise,
including:
• The National Skills Strategy (NSS) vision for 2020 that 48 percent of the
labour force will have NFQ level qualifications at 6-10, 45 percent of the
labour force will be at NFQ levels 4/5 and the remaining 7 percent will be
at NFQ levels 3 and below.
• A major strand in achieving the NSS vision is to upskill at least 500,000
people within the labour force (employed and unemployed). Of this
330,000 people are targeted for upskilling below levels 4/5.
• The current high unemployment challenge, particularly increasing long
term unemployment and responding to structural shifts in the economy
such as the increasing role of services and the implications of the collapse
in the construction sector for future skills needs.
Current Context: Role of VET
• Cyclical challenge of the current recession - the overrepresentation of
young people among the unemployed and the difficulties in opening up
labour market opportunities for them.
• Longer term structural challenge of tackling early school leaving.
• Changing skills needs within enterprises, including those impacted by
factors such as
– technological changes;
– minimum qualifications requirements introduced through regulation or industry
standards and;
– increasing skills requirements within occupations, even those considered relatively
low skilled.
• The need to provide more flexible and diverse forms of provision that
enhance access and the learning experience for the individual, in
addition to being current and relevant to enterprise needs.
Recurring Themes in Adult Education &
Training Environment in Ireland
• Urgent need for reform of traditional education / training systems,
institutions and work practices
• Need for development of a coherent & integrated VET system within
an integrated National Lifelong Learning System & Infrastructure
• The bedrock of an effective Adult Education system is the capability
of its personnel:- leaders & policy-makers who understand the
requirements of future-oriented VET and professional, qualified
teachers & trainers.
• Emerging technologies must be utilised within all strands of the
system – for communication, collaboration, teaching & learning
Many thanks for your attention and patience
.
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Partnership Project
“Improving Employment Opportunities in the Labour Market for
Marginalised Communities”