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URBACT Info Day Spain 25th November 2014, Madrid
“The youth and Jobs Challenge”
The Youth and Jobs challenge: City headlines
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• Fewer jobs The Crisis Globalisation Automation/ICT
• Skills mismatch
• Talent/brain drain
• Demographic squeeze
• Labour market regulations
How cities are using URBACT to respond
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PREVENT(Nantes)
MG@W(Rotterdam)
Jobtown(Cesena)
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Distilling key messages…URBACT workstreams
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• Need for supply side innovation & risk taking
• Value of having young people involved in decision-making
• Importance of better market intelligence
• Placing employers at the centre of city plans
Through URBACT, cities are addressing the youth/jobs issue through…› Having resources and space to innovate
› Learning by doing – peer to peer collaboration
› Seeing is believing (access to good practice examples)
› Building stakeholder capacity (through USU, NTS etc)
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