Themes
IDELE 2006
Over the last three years, IDELE seminars and reports have considered 12 different themes relating to local employment development.
IDELE Themes 2004
- Old Industrial and Mining Areas: The Added Value of Local Employment Development
- The Metropolitan City: Seeking Competitive Advantage through Local Actions to Integrate Immigrants and Minority Groups
- Successful local milieux and the Lisbon process: local employment development in the context of the Lisbon Strategy
- Remote Rural Areas: stimulating and managing new firm creation and entrepreneurship through local action
IDELE Themes 2005
- Maxmising employment potential: developing local approaches to lifelong learning;
- Positioning the local in multi-level governance systems: added value for employment and job creation;
- Alternatives to the grant culture: sustainable finance for local employment development;
- Local employment development in cross-border localities
IDELE Themes 2006
- The new round of Structural and Cohesion Funds: bringing the local into play in the context of convergence
- Fresh approaches to employment activation and sustainable communities: lessons for the competitiveness and employment regions
- Sustainable rural communities: local approaches to job generation and learning and skills development
- The local and the European Employment Strategy: lessons from IDELE
Using a combination of research, case studies and seminars bringing together the best players across Europe, IDELE captured the essence of what it is to act locally for employment and development.
The thematic reports offer a comprehensive insight into the contribution of local pacts and partnerships to EU member state employment and job creation programmes over the past two decades. They pinpoint exciting and innovative ideas that can help shape future programmes and action. The case studies and the real-life experiences of people who came together, in spite of the conditions they face, to take ownership of their problems and mobilise themselves and their communities, reveal crucial evidence of how acting locally for employment and development really does add value.
