Age Work Balance: Balanced Approaches for an Ageing Workforce in Metropolitan Areas
European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Length: 18 months.
Starting date: October – 2011
Resolution Number: VS/2011/0163
www.age-work-balance.metropolisnet.eu
Partner entities |
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MET. MetropolisNet. European Network of Local Development Partnerships in Metropolitan Areas: |
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General description |
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Within this project we want to concentrate on existing measures targeted to older long term unemployed people over 50 in metropolitan areas. We want to find out what constitutes an innovative measure in order to integrate them into sustainable employment. So the project goal is to find out the best balanced relationship between a particular approach and the network – structure for a successful integration of the target group into the labour market in order to implement the transferable results into a mainstream strategy. |
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Target audience |
Unemployed people over 50 in metropolitan areas. |
Methodology |
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For achieving these goals we will analyze within the MetropolisNet 7 existing measures located in Dublin, Tampere, Berlin & Hamburg, Santander, London and Vienna, 5 of them apply a specific approach and 2 of them as control group apply non target-group-specific measures. An important part of the project is its dissemination and mainstreaming strategy. The planned strategy is divided into a dissemination part and into a mainstreaming part. We follow the definition of the European Union and define the two terms as follows: 1. Dissemination: sharing information, raising awareness of the work done in the project, of the results achieved. 2. Mainstreaming: transferring of these results and taking up in every day policy and standard practice. As the development of transferable models/elements, a coherent strategy and the development of a practical handbook is planned, we focus on horizontal mainstreaming, which is often used when mainstreaming a practice. We will use a dual approach: 1. – Working to change the mainstream. 2. – Using of existing networks to maintain visibility and to keep the issue alive. The project will be developed in three phases: |
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Aims |
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Our two overall goals will be reached by carrying several concrete activities: 2. And to implement the transferable results into a mainstream strategy |
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Outcomes |
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With this project we expect first of all an increased cooperation between different stakeholders (policy makers, NGOs and researchers). The Peer review local city workshops support the mutual learning process between them on a local and national level. The results will be: In addition to that we expect different results on a European scale: Important outputs of the action will be: |