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EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING SOCIAL COHESION INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEURISM INTERNATIONALISATION GREEN ECONOMY Catalonia 2020 Strategy

1. Executive summary 2. Bases for growth 3. Framework of reference and background 3. 1. The Europe 2020 Strategy

5. 1. Employment and training 5. 2. Social cohesion 5. 3. Innovation and knowledge 5. 4. Entrepreneurism

6. 2. Improving the performance of the employment market 6. 3. Facilitating business access to finance

1. Executive summary In accordance with the new framework established by the European Union in its Europe 2020 Strategy,

employment, establishing a roadmap for economic recovery whilst preserving the model of social cohesion ECAT 2020 establishes objectives

employment and training; social cohesion; innovation and knowledge entrepreneurism; internationalisation; and the green economy ECAT 2020 is organised around eight strategic lines of action.

implementing policies to improve competitiveness and employment In many spheres, however, the effective and efficient implementation

public authorities, employersâ€ organisations, companies, trade unions workersâ€ associations, etc..The purpose of ECAT 2020 is to provide

through a transparent, open system and a promotion and communication plan that will help to identify this initiative as a

employment, finance, productivity and confidence The CAREC report stresses that the strategy for the competitiveness of the Catalan

potential for job creation and encourage new, emerging knowledge-based sectors -Eliminating the barriers and rigidity that prevent the Catalan economy from

employment, R&d climate change and energy, education, and combating poverty and social exclusion Within the framework established by the Europe 2020 Strategy,

required to launch initiatives aimed at generating growth and employment through the so-called National Reform Programmes.

-Fostering a high-employment economy that can ensure economic, social and territorial cohesion (inclusive growth ECAT 2020 follows the roadmap laid down by the Europe 2020 Strategy,

signed the Strategic Agreement for the Internationalisation, Quality of Employment and Competitiveness of the Catalan Economy.

employment and social cohesion When this agreement expired, the signatories decided to revise its content

particularly important initiative in this context is the Catalan Employment Strategy whose main goal is to reduce unemployment.

This Strategy is structured into three large blocks: job creation; employability; and improving the labour market The current situation of economic crisis and public spending restrictions requires

appropriate, effective and efficient economic policy measures. The Government is responsible for designing, planning and implementing such policies,

but in many cases they can only be put into effect in cooperation with other stakeholders (other public

authorities, employersâ€ organisations, companies, trade unions, workersâ€ associations etc Catalonia 2020 Strategy 13 4. The Catalonia 2020 Strategy (ECAT 2020) and

competitiveness of the Catalan economy and employment. ECAT 2020 takes its inspiration from the Europe 2020 Strategy,

promotion and communication plan 10. As in the two previous agreements, ECAT 2020 encourages participation and dialogue through commissions formed by

if appropriate, outside experts Catalonia 2020 Strategy 16 5. The six priority areas of action

5. 1. Employment and training The greatest challenge facing the Catalan economy is to create employment.

The Government must provide a stable, reliable environment in order to restart the production system and economic growth, an essential condition for generating jobs and

potential for job creation. These sectors include, for example: the energy industry energy efficiency and renewable energy sources;

jobs Employment and training Inclusive growthyouth on the move European platform against poverty Social cohesion Resource-efficient Europe Green economy Sustainable growth

however, that workers in these sectors require specific training and skills which the education system should provide

It is necessary to improve the way the labour market works, correcting certain structural problems. For instance, in order to foster economic growth based on increased

productivity and quality job creation, it is necessary to improve mechanisms for professional mediation, information and guidance so as to adjust supply to demand in

the labour market. Policies promoting a culture of mobility with regard to employment and training are also crucial to improving employability

Within its responsibilities, the Catalan Government should promote job quality and adopt measures to combat the informal economy and undeclared work.

A commitment should also be made to reducing segmentation and establishing a labour relations model that fosters the maintenance of employment and the modernisation of labour

organisations. Economic and social stakeholders should also play a major role in this sphere In order to ensure that the labour market operate adequately,

the results achieved by the education system must also be improved, and this means a reduction in school

dropout rates and equipping human capital with improved skills. Professional profiles and training provisions should also be adapted to the real needs of the production

quality vocational training model, one that offers lifelong, flexible education and is adapted to the needs of the production system.

unemployment have caused a substantial increase in situations of social inequality and poverty. Today, unemployment is the main cause of poverty amongst the working-age

population. For this reason, measures promoting social cohesion focus on integrating unemployed people into the labour market and on improving job-seeking skills

Promoting the social economy is a basic means of correcting inequalities. In the present economic climate, public spending caps greatly restrict the public authoritiesâ€

activities and job creation and reduces dependency on imports of goods and raw materials The green economy offers great economic opportunities to industry, the energy sector

2. Improving the performance of the labour market 3. Facilitating companiesâ€ access to finance 4. Promoting the strategic adaptation of businesses

employment and training; social cohesion; innovation and knowledge; entrepreneurism; internationalisation; and the green economy Targets, budgets and monitoring indicators for each product

need in order to find a place in the labour market and adapt to a rapidly changing world.

In the present context of severe economic crisis and high unemployment, it is particularly important to improve employability as a way of working towards a change to

2020 emphasises the importance of the new Catalan 2012-2020 Employment Strategy and the current Plan for the Development of Active Policies

Providing more effective, active policies with regard to the labour market and making a decisive contribution to improving employability are two of the challenges facing the

played by career guidance in integration into employment Career information and guidance services provide support for people who need to take

decisions with regard to training and employment, helping to ensure that they make appropriate choices about their professional career and training needs.

Consequently a strategic element in improving employability is to ensure that everybody, especially the unemployed, has appropriate, personalised access to career guidance services

6. 1. 2. Helping young people gain access to the labour market The dramatic situation young people face in the labour market requires society to

redouble its efforts in this area. The Government has identified as a major priority the challenge of lowering the unemployment rate and,

-Making vocational training more flexible in order to adapt the professional skills taught to current and future needs of the production system

-Enabling people to accredit skills learned through professional experience -Substantially increasing the number of young people taking vocational training

courses, and -Increasing personalised career guidance services Catalonia 2020 Strategy 24 6. 1. 3. Promoting new niches of employment

To foster job creation, Government measures need to focus on new employment niches and to train workers for the emerging sectors with potentially high future

demand, such as personal care services, sustainability and multimedia content Promoting such emerging industries is essential

in order to reduce the high structural unemployment generated by sectors in decline and to establish a model for economic

growth that is more balanced than previous models 6. 1. 4. Matching vocational training to labour market requirements

Serious imbalances exist between supply and demand in the Catalan labour market especially as regards vocational training.

Vocational training should be a tool for professionalising people and helping them to find and retain jobs, and provisions need

to be brought more in line with the actual needs of production The Government promotes an integrated vocational training system with the following

objectives: to provide a single vocational training service that is adapted to the needs of the labour market;

to develop a model for dual vocational training in cooperation with companies and production industries; to introduce a model for the recognition of work

experience and to accredit professional skills; and to establish integrated career information and guidance services

6. 1. 5. Raising rates of school success In order to reduce the high school dropout rate in Catalonia,

action is needed with regard to the basic skills taught at primary school. This action should focus on the basic

skills, particularly by encouraging reading and increasing the number of hours devoted to mathematics. With regard to reading, the aim is to improve habits and skills amongst

6. 1. 8. Increasing integration into labour market of people from groups at risk of social exclusion

Unemployment is the main cause of poverty amongst the working-age population. For this reason, the Government promotes measures to foster integration into the labour

market amongst groups at risk of social exclusion. These measures include particularly: the provision of training;

employment incentives; awareness-raising programmes; and career guidance services. Support is provided particularly for the integration into employment of people receiving the minimum income allowance

immigrants and ex-convicts 6. 1. 9. Using ICTS to promote equal opportunities and improve vocational skills

ensure that sufficient opportunities exist for highly-qualified workers. In this respect, the Catalonia 2020 Strategy 26

those wishing to obtain professional qualifications abroad. Measures to promote such mobility include providing more information about job offers in other European

6. 2. Improving labour market performance The Catalan labour market has some structural shortcomings that require correction in

order to reduce the high levels of unemployment and to generate economic growth through increased productivity and the creation of quality jobs.

The Catalan Governmentâ€ s powers in this field are limited. Several of the measures established in ECAT 2020 are contained in the Interprofessional agreement of Catalonia,

which was signed by trade union organisations and employersâ€ organisations in November 2011 Operational objective Em

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1. 2. Helping young people to gain access to the labour market 1. 3. Promoting new niches of employment

1. 4. Matching vocational training to labour market requirements 1. 5. Raising rates of school success 1. 6. Promoting full comprehension of English as a third language

1. 7. Introducing a new university model based on excellence and internationalisation 1. 8. Increasing integration into the labour market of people from groups at risk of social

exclusion 1. 9. Using ICTS to promote equal opportunities and improve vocational skills 1. 10. Attracting and retaining talent

6. 2. 1. Improving efficiency and information with regard to employment media -tion mechanisms For the labour market to operate well,

it is essential to ensure smooth communications between those looking for jobs and companies requiring workers.

To this end, it is vital to improve public employment services, to strengthen company mediation services and

to enhance and increase the information available to job seekers The Government should also promote strategies to encourage Catalan businesses to

implement measures at improving employability through open agreements that, for example, encourage companies to hire trainees

6. 2. 2. Promoting a model of labour relations aimed at increasing productivity and maintaining jobs

favourable to job creation and to enabling companies to increase productivity and become more competitive. However, to guarantee job quality and security, collective

Permanent social mediation bodies should contribute to building a labour relations model that can serve as a tool to promote productivity and job quality, as well as

6. 2. 3. Improving job quality and conditions of employment In order to foster sustained economic growth based on productivity, it is crucial to

A quality working environment and secure conditions of employment are key factors in persuading workers to commit to company

projects and contribute to improving competitiveness Government measures in this regard should be supported by economic and social

6. 2. 4. Preventing fraud connected to undeclared work and undue reception of benefits Undeclared work leaves workers unprotected, reduces public revenues and causes

unfair competition with firms that do comply with the law. In order to prevent fraud connected to undeclared work,

the Catalan Government undertakes regular inspections of companies to ensure that immigration laws are breached not.

STRATEGIC LINE 2. Improving labour market performance 2. 1. Improving efficiency and information with regard to employment mediation

mechanisms 2. 2. Promoting a model of labour relations aimed at increasing productivity and maintaining jobs

2. 3. Improving job quality and conditions of employment 2. 4. Preventing fraud connected to undeclared work and undue reception of benefits

Catalonia 2020 Strategy 29 needs (for example, microcredits, direct loans, mediated loans in association with financial institutions, guarantees, capital risk funds, co-investment, etc..

It is also important to promote channels of access to finance and to ensure that companies

particularly SMES and self-employed workers, are aware of all financing options open to them The Catalan Government also promotes other measures to provide access to finance

particularly in the case of SMES and self-employed workers. These include refundable contributions and advisory services

and to generate employment. The â€oecatalunya emprã nâ€ programme pursues these objectives and seeks to promote a

and vocational training), throughout society and in public opinion in order to foster entrepreneurship, which can help to increase the will to set up businesses.

6. 5. 2. Promoting business initiative, cooperatives and self-employed work In order to drive the creation of new businesses,

cooperatives and self-employed work. These are sectors of great economic and social importance in Catalonia that create wealth,

generate employment and improve social cohesion 6. 5. 3. Promoting regional economic development Policies must take Cataloniaâ€ s great territorial diversity into account.

5. 2. Promoting business initiative, cooperatives and self-employed work 5. 3. Promoting regional economic development

Renewable energy sources generate business opportunities and employment and contribute to modernising the production system,

intervention that fosters business initiative and job creation whilst preserving the rights and duties of citizens and companies and minimising transaction costs.

and efficiency of the work carried out by the justice administration 6. 8. Promoting strategic infrastructure

Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation_ An Introduction.pdf.txt

publication in a few intense days of work I trust that you will find this book as refreshing,

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leading Open Universityâ€ s work in the European Project CATALYST, and the EPSRCÂ€ s EDV project,

that filtering now works on the basis of marketing strategies and through invisible technologies, as it segregates internet users into small-scale groups

the institutional and working conditions of potential users which might influence the time available for participation;

Participation in work-related communities such as Linkedin groups and other professional networks can trigger different motivations.

collectives work, from sharing social norms to producing the technology they use, from colla -boration to competition, is the subject of much research

different disciplines who divide their work by exploring specific disciplinary topics without crossing their disciplinary boundaries

Experimentation (FIRE) of the 2013 Work Programme. Finally, CAPS are an important topic for internet science, a research domain dedicated to the understanding of techno

growth and employment, environment, climate change health and education, inclusive societies, well-being, etc Making a project to tackle societal needs implies framing the needs

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forms of collaborative production, mainly in the domain of knowledge work, have emerged Yochai Benkler (2006) defined such modes of production as commons-based peer

The way Assembl works allows large numbers of people to discuss and debate in a manner that elevates the intelligence of the group.

networks of citizen experts around client's needs 16. Elgg http://elgg. org Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine

and experts that come together around the joint commitment of enabling more sustainable lifestyles 20. GNUNET https://gnunet. org GNUNET is a framework for secure peer-to-peer

groups, require promotion to start the raising awareness process. Making sense of the issue is a preliminary requirement for people developing an interest in, and motivation

collaborative work, public and even tangible feedback are examples of strategies that have been evaluated to promote engagement

who were not able to contribute to this book sprint will provide their expert views in the

Work. pp. 107-114 Eden, C. 1999)' Using Cognitive Mapping for Strategic Options Development and

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Compelling issues for adoption of e-Health, Dr. Roberto J. Rodrigues 2008.pdf.txt

consumer-oriented information, and health promotion Ëoe The requirement for custom-built products and services (individualisation of care) and real-time delivery

Strengthening health systems through ICT works for greater equity, solidarity, quality of life and health and ultimately contributes to the goal of poverty reduction.

Planning must also include the managerial issues and changes in work patterns and procedures which are

Ëoe Promotion of education, training, and national planning capacity in information systems and technology Ëoe Convening groups for the implementation of standards

-response collaborative technical work, and the concomitant political, regulatory, and managerial tasks International co-operation

challenges to developing countries of ï ight of capital, tax evasion and employment reduction by oï €shoring

Conference_Documentation_Museums in the Digital Age.pdf.txt

As key components of NEMO's work for museums and museum professionals of Europe these topics also significantly shaped the issues

data centres, external companies and experts 3. Obtain Museums today must not only create digital objects themselves, but also obtain the

discrete area of work, but to look at a whole organisation and consider how it can be

which drives a museum's work â€¢The policies and plans a museum has in

â€¢Staff-mobile technologies in museums require staff to'think digitally 'and to apply this mindset across all aspects of their work

â€¢Sustainability-each project must be sustainable in the long term. Thus, it is often best if the project is part of a wider

programme of work Planning for success In addition to creating an engagement strategy there are several other factors museums must

2. Marketing and promotion-whatever a museum produces, it will be wasting its time and resources if it does not actively engage

the right method of promotion is used and the right message delivered Only by building on these strategic

such as orphan works and privacy, offers possible solutions and takes a look at how these issues will play out on the EU

â€¢Orphan works regulation-is being finalised at the EU level and will significantly affect

EU Directive on orphan works is currently being adopted by the Member States. Greece's

works in the digital environment in the next years. Depending upon the definition of 'orphan work'used, more than 50%of content

owned by museums can be considered orphan works, and under this assumption, the digitisation, dissemination and further exploit

-ation of this content in the digital environment will be prominent. Thus, the current develop -ments at the EU level will help to prevent such

unknown','orphan work'and'rights reserved 'are understood by users. These are issues and terms that will be addressed in the near future

work with strong, like-minded partners such as Wikimedia to make all specifically licensed for -reuse content available on the platforms where

such as compensation, orphan works and unforeseen costs A different way of doing things Museums today must accept the Web 2. 0

However, a lot of work is needed to change the way things are done and this will not be easy

orphan works, not least because they do not have enough information regarding to whom and in what circumstances they need to pay

the local Leipzig employment centre, which provided temporary staff for over fifteen years Digitising the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig

Volker Rodekamp 31 32 The entire process of collection management has now been changed and is centrally

another six to eight years and additional staff to perform retrospective documentation It has become clear that the broadened

additional staff and technical equipment however, it will be a challenge to adequately serve these new requests and keep the pace of

-ication or good cultural promotion. As Dirk Houtgraaf (2012) writes,'s lowly but inevitably we will move into an era of co-creation and

of staff personally contacted their colleagues friends, associations and local communities -schools, families, people taking part in the

planned, staff could be motivated and, most importantly, so that partial results could be communicated in a transparent and efficient

work of community building that it had carried out since 2009. Since 2009, the museum had

massive amount of work carried out through the online community. All of these had paved the way for the success of the crowdfunding

promotion of know-how; edu -cation; and the digital community 2. Sustainable development-the'green 'economy;

3. Inclusive growth-enlarged labour market and specialisation; war against poverty; a high employment economy delivering social

and territorial cohesion Tracking the progress of growth within each priority area will be evaluated against five

â€¢Employment-raising the employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 to 75

and job creation, and the word'culture'is hardly mentioned in the EU 2020 Strategy, will

short-term approach to work, to politics and even to private life. For too long society has

unemployment is dramatically impacting large groups of younger generations that find increasing challenges in building their future

and traditional job descriptions are becoming scarce Most of these conditions are irreversible. There is no going back.

Scientific Director of the Executive Master Course in European Museology, IULM University, Milan He is an independent temporary exhibition specialist and an active lecturer on industrial

that works with a network of 23,000 museums to open up their collections for discovery and use

traditional labour work in the 20th century. He is a member of multiple scientific organisations and

professional associations such as the Institut fã r sã¤chsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e. V.,the Kulturstiftung Leipzig and the Stiftung VÃ lkerschlachtdenkmal Leipzig

has also been an Executive Board member of NEMO since 2008 and since 2012, a jury member of

She is one of the European Museum Academy experts and a member of ICTOP (ICOM Committee Training Personnel

management of intellectual property rights of digital works, and digitisation of cultural heritage. He has authored more than seventy research papers

Jorge Wagensberg has published over a hundred research works in fields as wide-ranging as biophysics, entomology, mathematics, microbiology, palaeontology, philosophy of science

Expert Network on Culture and an appointed expert on culture and adult education by the European commission.

Consultation on the EU strategic work programme 2016-2017.pdf.txt

Horizon 2020 dedicated Expert Advisory Group on Innovation in SMES Consultation on the EU Strategic Work Programme 2016â€ 17

Final Report to the European commission July 2014 Horizon 2020 Expert Advisory Group â€oeinnovation in SMESÂ€:

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