The project partners organised the third event foreseen by the project in Warsaw on 18 January. The workshop was an interesting opportunity to discuss about employment services availale in each partner country for those workers at risk of dismissal.
The project partners are now organising the second workshop "Benchmarking employment services for migrants and ethnic minorities". The event will be held in Bucharest on 12 November and be directed by the partner Impreuna, Agency for Community Development.
The first workshop of the project took place in Milan on Friday 29th June. It was conducted by Agenzia Regionale Istruzione Formazione Lavoro and IRS, the Institute for Social Research, and attended by representatives from public and private organisations working within the frame of employment services. Speakers were high level experts from Europe and presented the national and regional employment systems adotped in their countries and the way private and public service interact.
The Monitoring Labour Market Reforms II project is the follow up of a project carried out by the Regional Agency for Education, Training and Employment of Lombardy Region in 2006 within the frame of the calls for the "Follow-up and Dissemination Activities to the Mutual Learning Programme of the Europeam Employment Strategy". The new project started in January 2007 and it is carried out by a European partnership involving the following countries: Italy, Poland and Romania.
The activities are developed by four partners: the Regional Agency for Education, Training and Employment Lombardy Region (the coordinator), the IRS Institute for Social Research, Italy, the IMPREUNA Agency for Community Development (Romania) and the Foundation Polska-Europa-Polonia (Polonia).
The main project activities consist in three workshops and a final international conference. The overall goal of these events will be the identification of good practices in employment services public-provate partnerships, with a special focus on the services aimed at dismissed workers and at immigrants or ethnic minorities. The firs workshop will take place in June in Milan.
The European Mobility Slogan Contest is part of a project selected and cofinanced by the European Union through a call for proposals launched in October 2006. The activities are developed by three main partners: Agenzia Regionale per il Lavoro of Regione Lombardia (Italy), Job Centre Plus Scotland (United Kingdom) and Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (Portugal). The project is sponsored by Vedior. The related activities started in 2006 and ended in May 2007. For further information on the initiative and the project outputs see the links below.
The Agenzia Regionale per il Lavoro together with Job Centre Plus Scotland and Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (Portugal) are pleased to announce the winners in the European Mobility Slogan Contest.
Simona dalla Valle, a 25 year old Italian girl, is the author of the winning slogan: "European Workers' Mobility: You Move, You Improve".
The Jury also selected the second and third place winners:
2nd place : "Be Mobile, Be European!" by Hugo Pimenta, from Portugal
3rd place: "Job Mobility, your gateway to new experiences" by Justin Chircop from Malta
The European Commission organises regularly European Years on topics that are of direct concern to European citizens.
2006 has been designated the European Year for mobility of workers. The year aims to raise awareness and increase understanding of the benefits of both working abroad and in a new occupation. It is the first European year which combines the issues of mobility and workers.
There are two aspects to workers' mobility: job mobility relates to the frequency that employees change jobs; geographical mobility refers to the movement of workers from one region to another in the same country or movement between countries.
A mobility campaign should itself be mobile! That is the conclusion of EURES, the EU's job mobility service, which is organising a bus tour across Europe. The 'Mobility Roadshow' tookplace in nine cities and countries, presenting job opportunities and encouraging people to think about living and working in another EU country. The Agenzia Regionale per il Lavoro Lombardia hosted the Road Show in Milan on 16 October!
The success of the European Job Days, with 500 events in 300 European cities, has taken the Commission by surprise. The initiative attracted tens of thousands across Europe.
The Agenzia Regionale per il Lavoro Regione Lombardia in cooperation with the Placement Office of University of Bergamo organised the European Job Fair on 29 September. The Info Day took place at the University and attraced many students, who showed strong interest in the Eures services and in undetaking a working experience abroad.
