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Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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| 19.30 |
Welcome cocktail |
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Thursday, 11 June 2009
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| 09.00-09.30 |
Registration |
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Chair: Manfred Tessaring, Cedefop |
| 09.30-10.00 |
Welcome and introduction to the New Skills for New Jobs initiative
Christian Lettmayr, Deputy Director of Cedefop
Jordi Curell Gotor, DG Education and Culture, European Commission |
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European skills forecasting: the work in progress |
| 10.00-11.00 |
Towards regular European skills forecasting: focus on skill supply results
Alena Zukersteinova, Cedefop
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Rob Wilson, IER - Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK
Discussion |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Tea/Coffee break |
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Skills anticipation in a wider context: current challenges (panel discussion)
Chair: Wolfgang Müller, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Germany
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| 11.30-13.00 |
Education and the economic crisis: skills for recovery
Dirk Van Damme, OECD
Skills needs in the context of globalisation and technological change
Maarten Goos, University of Leuven, Belgium
Just transition in unjust times: challenges of today, skills for tomorrow
Olga Strietska-Ilina, ILO
Skills for green jobs
Peter Szovics, Cedefop
Crisis as opportunity: from reconstruction to transformation
Riel Miller, xperidox: futures consulting, France |
| 13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30-16.00 |
Parallel Sessions I
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Chair: Sebastian Stetter, DG EMPL
Rapporteur: Jasper van Loo, Cedefop
Working group I.1: Forecasting skills supply and demand
Forecasting skills supply and demand in Europe
Ben Gardiner, Cambridge Econometrics, UK
Forecasts and potential labour market imbalances
Ben Kriechel, ROA - Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, the Netherlands
Discussion |
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Chair: Torsten Dunkel, Cedefop
Rapporteur: Bernd Dworschak, FhG-IAO, Germany
Working group I.2: Employers’ surveys on skill needs
Cedefop's feasibility study on employers' surveys on skill needs
Paola Zito and Emilio Colombo, Gruppo CLAS, Italy
Manpower employment outlook survey
Göran Hultin, Caden Corporation, Switzerland
Discussion |
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Chair: Milena Stoycheva, CEO, Junior Achievement Young Enterprise, Bulgaria
Rapporteur: Lucie Davoine, DG EAC
Working group I.3: Partnership for skills and employment: education, training and enterprises working together
European university enterprise network
Doru Talaba, University Transilvania of Braşov, Romania
Education Intelligence - lessons learnt and further actions
Marita Aho, Confederation of Finnish Industries, Finland
Discussion
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| 16.00-16.30 |
|Tea/Coffee break |
| 16.30-18.00 |
Parallel Sessions II
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Chair: Julia González, University of Deusto, Spain
Rapporteur: Jasper van Loo, Cedefop
Working group II.1: Skill mismatch
Addressing skill mismatch in difficult times
Peter Sloane, University of Melbourne, Australia
Job polarisation in Europe: the roles of technology and globalisation
Maarten Goos and Anna Salomons, University of Leuven, Belgium
Discussion |
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Chair: Radoslaw Owczarzak, Eurofound
Rapporteur: Bernd Dworschak, FhG-IAO, Germany
Working group II.2: Skill needs in sectors
Key findings from the 16 sector study
Manuel Hubert, DG EMPL
Informing sector skills councils
Katerina Rüdiger, UKCES, UK
Discussion |
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Chair: Gerard Walker, Forfas, Ireland
Rapporteur: Lucie Davoine, DG EAC
Working group II.3: Partnership for skills and employment: best practices of partnerships at national and regional level
The role of forecast in national policy making: Czech experience
Vera Czesaná and Jiri Branka, National Training Fund, National Observatory of Employment & Training, Czech Republic
The role of regional observatories in France to anticipate and match skills and jobs
Christine Bruniaux, Observatoire régional de l'emploi et de la formation, France
Discussion |
| 18.30 |
Conference buffet on Cedefop's roof terrace
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Friday, 12 June 2009
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Matching skills and jobs: the next steps
Chair: Torsten Dunkel, Cedefop
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| 09.30-10.30 |
Working group reports
Summary reports from the parallel sessions
Discussion |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Beyond 2010: What role for New Skills for New Jobs?
Xavier Prats-Monné, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission
Discussion |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Tea/Coffee break |
| 11.30-12.30 |
Matching skills and jobs: key policy challenges (roundtable discussion)
Chair: Ioanna Nezi, Cedefop |
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Manfred Tessaring, Cedefop
Arnold Jonk, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences, the Netherlands
Gordon Clark, DG Education and Culture, European Commission
Bruno Coquet, EMCO - Employment Committee
Anders Vind, LO - The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, Denmark
Dorthe Andersen, Confederation of Danish Employers, Denmark
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| 12.30-.13.00 |
Conclusions: the way forward
Xavier Prats-Monné, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission
Aviana Bulgarelli, Director of Cedefop |
| 13.00 |
End of conference & lunch |
| 15.00 |
Excursion to Petralona and Nea Kallikratia |
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Agenda
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