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Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges REGIONS FOR ECONOMIC CHANGE – SHARING EXCELLENCE The Age Alliance The Age Alliance Network Network Working for Older Working for Older Workers Workers JobMentoring for JobMentoring for Unemployed 50 Unemployed 50 + + The Western Mecklenburg The Western Mecklenburg Experience Experience

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REGIONS FOR ECONOMIC CHANGE – SHARING EXCELLENCE. Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges. The Age Alliance Network Working for Older Workers. “ JobMentoring for Unemployed 50 + The Western Mecklenburg Experience. Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

REGIONS FOR ECONOMIC CHANGE – SHARING EXCELLENCE

The Age Alliance NetworkThe Age Alliance NetworkWorking for Older WorkersWorking for Older Workers

““JobMentoring for Unemployed 50JobMentoring for Unemployed 50++ The Western Mecklenburg ExperienceThe Western Mecklenburg Experience

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The Transnational Experience:Focussed on the same target:

(Integration of disadvantaged target groups)

JobMentoring as joint Tool

Study Visits with strategic partners were very beneficial (Key Players of the employment agency and business-manager were involved)

Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORKTHE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK

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All National Projects Have Contributed to the Network

NTI has in Particular:Developed the Innovation-Team Concept; merging

employed with unemployed worker and trained them

Applied and Developed the Role of Job Mentors; connection between companies and jobseeker

Introduced the Idea of Patchworking, “new” for Western Mecklenburg

Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK

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Mainstreaming from the NetworkDissemination of the idea of JobMentoring in the regionTake Account of Age Alliance Mentoring Experience “National network age management” Germany Implementation and application of the method in the

RegioVision GmbH Schwerin 2007 Integration of: ARGE (Employment Agency),

Municipality of Schwerin Entrepreneurs’ Assoc., Ministry of Economy

Extension of the application field to the other ARGE in the region of Western Mecklenburg

Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORKTHE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK

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Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK Challenges and Successes in the Policy Arena

Sensitization of the management of employment

agencies; funding increase for “50+” projects

Sensitization of employers; knowledge of best practice

in other counties

Improvement of further education measures; changing

in vocational training

Improvement in the integration of people 50plus;

employment rates increased in the last two years

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Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORKTHE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK Challenges for the Future

Geographic enlargement of the field of activitiesto Europe; particularly the new member states in the east

Broadening of target groups – 12% of Migrants are unemployed in my hometown Schwerin

Improvement of methods - knowledge exchange; transfer of best practice among EQUAL-Partnerships (Germany and Europe)

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Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges

THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORKTHE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK Contact

Jürgen Brandt

RegioVision GmbH Schwerin

[email protected]