New Skills for New Jobs

Lars Vildbrad, Deputy Director

Regional Development, Central Denmark Region

Challenges and Partnerships in Central Denmark Region

Local government reform

The new regions19

Region Sealand805.954

Region South Denmark1.183.823

Central Denmark Region1.212.988 – 22% of the Danish population

Region North Jutland577.005

Aalborg

Viborg

Vejle

Hillerød

Sorø

Region Greater Copenhagen1.631.537

East - West

Regional tasks

Health health service, hospitals, GPs and medical specialists

Psychiatry and social care

Regional development regional spatial planning and regional development: Business development, education, employment, culture, and tourism.

Structure

Regional Council41 members

Executive committee19 members

Committees

GrowthForum

20 members

Coordinative Committee

Chairmanand 19 mayors

Regional administration

Growth Forum – strategic focus

Education and skills development Innovation and it Entrepreneurship and business development Rural development Internationalisation

Clusters Energy and environment Foods Business/Health

New Challenges

A growing (national) need for qualifications

More young people must seek education at a higher level than primary and secondary lower level - 20% do not!!

An active adult and further educational system which can continuously educate people to match the demand for new qualifications.

“Lifelong learning” as an important focus area for the companies in Denmark in order to meet the challenges in a globalised knowledge economy.

The necessary interaction between educational institutions and companies

Primary school

Secondary school(38)

Business college(20)

Technical college(20)

Adult educational center

(11)

VIA University College

2.000 employees

15.000 full-time students several thousand part time students

Aarhus University10.000 employees

28.000 students

Labou

r mar

ketPrivate sector

Public sector

Youth education and adult education and training

So what have we done in Central Denmark Region?

It is a regional task to enable the relevant match between qualifications demanded and supplied

“KompetenceMidt”: A network and partnership organization – 1 board and 6 partnerships

Marketplace for highly educated employees Entrepreneurship – part of the education How to integrate the foreign students – and

make them stay in Denmark Scientific and engineering

Job center Other

networks

Business bureau

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Technical College

Business College

Adult education

center

Social and health care

school

Languageschool

Education Center

Labour market Representatives

Job center

Job center

KompetenceMidt

Market place for highly educated employees

Focus on demand as well as supply Canvassing SMEs regarding their possible need

for highly educated employees (using student internships/projects as an ”ice breaker”)

Initiatives on universities aimed at increasing student’s interest in SMEs as their future workplace

Broad scope, not only engineers and business economists!

Some of the positive results:

A single entrance to further education in Central Denmark

6 well-functioning partnerships (they present to the companies the entire range of education offers)

A cooperation between the consultants of the business service system and the consultants of the educational institutions

A well-functioning corps of educational consultants organized in partnerships

Key messages

The Danish Flexicurity Model – encouragement to seek education

One entrance – for companies and for employees - to new qualifications

Flexibility – possibility to adapt the educational supply in order til meet the demand

Focus – the importance of regional focus and partnerships