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Entrepreneurship Education Is Paramount To Combat Youth Unemployment

In the wake of the global economic downtown trends have emerged that are threatening the future workforce. There are 75 million who are currently unemployed and more than 200 million youth who are earning less than $US2 per day. Yet 1/3 of businesses are still unable to fill vacancies due to skills gap. Therefore educational systems are not preparing young people properly to enter the labor market.

Local authorities and economic development in 2013 – can local dynamism counter a national low growth economy?

We are now over five years since the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-08 plunged the world (and UK) economy into recession, and just over half way through the five year term of the UK coalition government that began in May 2010. In this period the previously-accepted orthodox local economic development models – international, national and local – have been super-ceded by new agendas and approaches. However, a return to long-run sustainable growth and development seems elusive, and the optimum role and functions of LAs in this process remains ‘work-in-progress’.

Bielefeld follows up on Learning Report

Bielefeld, one of the cities participating in PIE, has been innovative in commissioning a Learning Report for the city prepared by the Bertelsmann Foundation and SOFI (Gottingen University) that adapted methodology derived by the Bertelsmann Foundation from the Canadian Composite Learning Index of the Canadian Council on Learning. This was used in the 2010 European Lifelong Learning Indicators (ELLI) report by the Foundation.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - January 2013

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

Active ageing: closing ceremony of European Year 2012 looks to the future

The European Year 2012 has mobilised a wide range of stakeholders  across Europe to take action with the aim of creating better  opportunities for active ageing and strengthening solidarity between  generations. It has given rise to hundreds of new initiatives and  events at European, national, regional or local level dealing with  employment, social participation and independent living of older  people, many of which will be of long-term benefit.

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