URBACT Info Day Spain 25 th November 2014, Madrid “The youth and Jobs Challenge”
Jul 17, 2015
URBACT Info Day Spain 25th November 2014, Madrid
“The youth and Jobs Challenge”
The Youth and Jobs challenge: City headlines
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• Fewer jobs The Crisis Globalisation Automation/ICT
• Skills mismatch
• Talent/brain drain
• Demographic squeeze
• Labour market regulations
How cities are using URBACT to respond
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PREVENT(Nantes)
MG@W(Rotterdam)
Jobtown(Cesena)
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Distilling key messages…URBACT workstreams
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• Need for supply side innovation & risk taking
• Value of having young people involved in decision-making
• Importance of better market intelligence
• Placing employers at the centre of city plans
Through URBACT, cities are addressing the youth/jobs issue through…› Having resources and space to innovate
› Learning by doing – peer to peer collaboration
› Seeing is believing (access to good practice examples)
› Building stakeholder capacity (through USU, NTS etc)
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