Dr. Blanca Miedes UgarteAssociated Professor of Applied Economy

Observatorio Local de Empleowww.ole.uhu.es

Universidad de Huelva (Spain)miedes@uhu.es

Research-Action Line “Governance” European Network of Territorial Intelligence

www.territorial-intelligence.eu

axis B {job systems}Territorial job systems, innovation

and governance for creating and adapting jobs in the socio-ecological transition

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Introduction

• Fabrizio BARCA’s Report (2009) about the reform in the European Cohesion Policy insists on the

need of fostering a result oriented placed-based policy of development in order to deal with social cohesion,

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Introduction

• In order to this results oriented place-based policy to increase its quantitative and qualitative impact on employment creation and adaptation, territorial actors and policy makers shall need:

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Needs:

• New paradigms and concepts about the labour market system functioning,

– a renovate approach which stress the labour market multidimensional and territorial dimensions

– and which allows a comparative analyze of its structure and performance in different contexts,

– in the short, medium and large term.

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Needs:

• It would be also needed to innovate in designing – new territorial governance frameworks

which are more adapted to the local employment needs in different welfare contexts,

– identifying appropriate and adapted methods and tools for monitoring and assessing territorial policies and projects;

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Needs:

• From a prospective point of view it will be necessary – to detect and discuss the “laboratories” of socio-

ecological innovation which are actually been carried out by territorial actors

– by exploring their potentialities and weakness facing the challenge of creating more and better jobs on the context of socioecological transition.

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Objectives:

• Axis B main objective is to contribute to this renovation, - Ideas about labor market functioning- Employment governance frameworks- Social an ecological Innovation

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Expected Results

• To generate a better understanding of the functioning of territorial dynamics of creation and adaptation of employment in rural and urban contexts, by – identifying main processes and actors involved in

the evolution of jobs in the short, medium (2015) and large term (2025).

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Expected Results

• To anticipate futures skills and competences according with the identified employment territorial dynamics, focusing in the study of potentialities and weakness of the “green jobs”.

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Expected Results

• To address the impacts of this territorial dynamics on people’s employment life cycle – focusing on the results on women and more

disfavoured workers.

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Expected Results

• To identify emergent innovating social and ecological experiences in order to study and discuss their possibilities of extension to the general system of production and consumption.

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Expected Results

• To establish main recommendations to policy makers in order to foster this innovating projects.

• To identify different models of local employment governance studying their impacts on employment creation and its quality.

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Expected Results

• To discuss the way in which European strategy of “flexicurity” can be translated into local policies of employment development and its potentials effects on the life cycle of employment in the territory.

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Results

• To identify, select and conceptualize most suitable participative methods and tools in monitoring employment multisectorial projects and in assessing territorial employment policies and projects in order to foster territorial actors competences and territorial intelligence.

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Axis B WPs:

• WPBSY [systems]• WPBGO [governance]• WPBIN [innovation]

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Comparative approach considering different areas representing different welfare regimes in Europe: Nordic, Continental, Liberal, MediterraneanComparative approach considering different areas representing different welfare regimes in Europe: Nordic, Continental, Liberal, Mediterranean

Axis B WPs: WPBSY [systems]

• WPBSY [systems] Territorial job systems and multi sector projects monitoring in sustainable development

• It shall identify in selected territories different trends of jobs creation and adaptation in the framework of the socioecological transition.

• It sahll establish a multidimensional and participatory methodology of conceptualizing, analyzing and monitoring local labour systems and clusters.

• The evolution of the so called “green jobs” emerging from socioecological transition will be specially addressed.

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Axis B WPs: WPBGO [governance]

• WPBGO [governance] Employment territorial governance, new territorial political frameworks

• It shall analyze and discuss the characteristics of territorial governance systems potentially favorable to the creation and the adaptation of jobs in this new context,

• current practices of territorial employment evaluation and • the role of stakeholders in defining territorial sustainable

development policies which are specially driven to get better jobs for a better life.

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Axis B WPs: WPBIN [innovation]

• WPBIN [innovation] Socio-ecological innovation towards corporate citizenship

• It shall study positive experiences of social and ecological innovation in territorial areas and the conditions which must be given in order them to extend and to foster the socio-ecological transition at global level.

• This WP will be draft an inventory of existing experiences and a list of argumentations specially addressed to policy makers, entrepreneurs and social civil encouraging them to innovate in this same way.

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Axis B Task

• WPBSY [systems]:– <Articulation> (animated by Serge Schmitz of ULG)– <Environment> (animated by Zoltan Whilhem of

PTE)– <Monitoring> (animated by Celia Sánchez of

UHU).

• WPBGO [governance]• WPBIN [innovation]

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Axis B Task

• WPBSY [systems]• WPBGO [governance]:

– <Models> (animated by Mihai Pascaru of UAB).– <Evaluation> (animated by Dolores Redondo of

UHU).– <Lobbying> (animated by Catherine Baumont of

University of Bourgone).

• WPBIN [innovation]

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Axis B Task

• WPBSY [systems]• WPBGO [governance]• WPBIN [innovation]:

– <Proposals> (animated by Jean-GuY HENCKEL of Reseau Cocagne).

– <Widening> (animated by Julia FERNÁNDEZ QUINTANILLA of ACCEM).

– <Projects> (animated by Evlyne BRUNO of Relais Employ):

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WPBSY: Synthesis

• During the project all these results will be confronted with a selected panel of policy makers and stakeholders in different territorial context.

• A Synthesis report summarizing and articulating main conclusions of the three tasks “Monitoring Territorial Employment Systems in Europe” will be presented at the end of the project (Month 47).

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WPBGO: Synthesis

• Synthesis report : New territorial political frameworks fostering better jobs for a better life (Month 47).

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WPBIN: Synthesis

• A Synthesis report : Recommendations to implement innovating social and ecological practices to manage sustainable development tensions by political, economic, and social actors (Month 47).

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WPBSY <Articulation> • <Articulation> (animated by Serge Schmitz of ULG) shall deal with

territorial systems of employment analysis using a comparative approach. The idea is that the pluridisciplinar and plurisectorial group of researchers and actors involved in WPBSY to select some local areas in Spain, Italy, France, England, Hungary, Belgium, Rumania and Finland and to compare their local employment systems structure and evolution stressing regional and rural-urban differences.

• The final deliverable would be a report (Month 11), which will be specially addressed to territorial actors and policy makers, including a methodology for the analysis, diagnosis and prospection of local labor markets by taking in account these different situations.

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WPBSY <Environment> • <Environment> (animated by Zoltan Whilhem of PTE) shall take as

departing point the same selected local areas as in the task <articulation>. This task will consist on a comparative approach of different evolutions of “green jobs” depending on the nature and functioning of the territorial employment system. A wider focus should require going beyond the narrow concept of “green jobs” which are exclusively referred to environmental matters and including a wider set of sectors as those referring to a larger vision of sustainability as social cohesion and cultural development (cf. WPALQ).

• The final deliverable will be a Report prospecting this evolution in the short, medium and large term, by main involved sectors, according to different regional characteristics (Month 23).

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WPBSY <Monitoring> • <Monitoring> (animated by Celia Sánchez of UHU). Actors and researchers

focus will consists on the designing of a model of territorial employment observatories by identifying, selecting and conceptualizing most suitable indicators and participative methods and tools in monitoring employment multisectorial projects taking in account social, economic and environmental dynamics which are at the same time cause and effect of labor systems dynamics.

• The final deliverable will be a Report describing the methodology of Territorial Intelligence Employment Observatories (Month 35).

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WPBSY: Synthesis

• During the project all these results will be confronted with a selected panel of policy makers and stakeholders in different territorial context. A Synthesis report summarizing and articulating main conclusions of the three tasks will be presented at the end of the project (Month 47).

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WPBGO: Synthesis

• During the project all these results will be confronted with a selected group of policy makers and stakeholders in different territorial context. A Synthesis report summarizing and articulating main conclusions of the three tasks will be presented at the end of the project: New territorial political frameworks fostering better jobs for a better life (Month 47).

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WPBIN: Synthesis

• A Synthesis report : Recommendations to implement innovating social and ecological practices to manage sustainable development tensions by political, economic, and social stake-holders (Month 47).

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WPBGO <Models>• <Models> (animated by Mihai Pascaru of UAB). It shall compare different

systems of vertical and horizontal local governance and their influence in jobs creation and adaptation in the context of sociological transition.

• Partners shall use an international comparative approach taking as references different territories representing the different models of welfare state. It is preview to take same areas as in WPBSY assuring the coherence of whole axis B.

• Bibliographic, legislative and documental revision will be combined with qualitative participatory methods giving place to gather local experts’ opinion.

• Final deliverable of this task will be the report: Effects in job creation an adaptation of different European models of territorial employment governance (Month 11).

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WPBGO <Evaluation>• <Evaluation> (animated by Dolores Redondo of UHU). Using as comparative basis

same areas as in <Models> this task shall analyze different methodologies and tools used by European territorial policy makers studying the influence of their results in the decision making processes.

• In this case more pertinent bibliographie will be reviewed and it will be confronted with habitual local actor’s practices explored by a panel made of policy makers of different governmental levels in each selected area. The analysis will use qualitative techniques such as structured in deep interviews and discussion groups, this data will be confronted with some other ones about institutional and legal frameworks (output of tasks <Models>) and local labor system indicators (output of task <Articulation>) in order to establish a relationship between kind of labor system, model of territorial governance and evaluation an assessment practices.

• Final deliverable in this task will be the Report: Recommendations about participatory assessment of territorial employment policies in different European territorial and political contexts (Month 23).

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WPBGO <Lobbying>• <Lobbying> (animated by Catherine Baumont of University of Bourgone). By using

a similar methodology as in <Evaluation> this task will dealt with analysis of lobbying efforts in urban growth control decisions and their impact on the local labor market systems. Main relevant questions here are: How urban policy makers take care of socio-ecological transitions in their urban planning policies (ecological-districts, green areas, sustainable housing…) and economic development policies (ecological development, “green” firms and “green” jobs attractiveness)? How lobbying groups (citizens involved in socio-ecological associations, homeowners, workers and managers in the socio-ecological sectors) manage to influence and turn urban policy makers towards an increasing part of “job for a better life” in local labor markets? To which extent do they achieve this last objective in different institutional and socioeconomic contexts?

• Main deliverable in this task will be the report. Lobbying action of main stakeholders of territorial employment policy and their impacts in jobs creation and adaptation (Month 35)

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WPBGO: Synthesis

• During the project all these results will be confronted with a selected group of policy makers and stakeholders in different territorial context. A Synthesis report summarizing and articulating main conclusions of the three tasks will be presented at the end of the project: New territorial political frameworks fostering better jobs for a better life (Month 47).

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WPBIN <Proposals>

• <Proposals> (animated by Jean-GuY HENCKEL of Reseau Cocagne). This task will consist in reviewing national, European and International documents and proposals, and then in debating these proposals relevance and innovating nature (international debates will celebrates in WP meetings and Annual International Conferences, but participants will assure this debate to extend to its territorial networks).

• Main deliverable of this task will be the report: Inventory and updating of the proposals for an innovating entrepreneurship able to generate future jobs (Month 11)

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WPBIN <Widening>

• <Widening> (animated by Julia FERNÁNDEZ QUINTANILLA of ACCEM). Taking as departing point the report of task <Proposals>, this task will consist in identifying the means through which to convince civil societies, economical and political stake-holders to get involved in the development of social and ecological innovating actions.

• Main deliverable of this task will be the Report: Arguments programs to promote these proposals within the economical, social and political fields (Month 23)

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WPBIN <Projects>

• <Projects> (animated by Evlyne BRUNO of Relais Employ): this task will consist in defining an innovating project and then in making a repertory of the European innovating projects. It will began at the starting point of the project and will bea deatl with during the first three years.

• Main deliverable of this task will be the report: Repertory of the innovating social, economical and environmental experiences and practices and of their impact on future jobs creation (Month 35)

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WPBIN: Synthesis

• A Synthesis report summarizing and articulating main conclusions of the three tasks will be presented at the end of the project: Recommendations to implement innovating social and environmental practices in the management of tensions linked to sustainable development by political, economical and social stake-holders (Month 47).

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Dr. Blanca Miedes UgarteAssociated Professor of Applied Economy

Observatorio Local de Empleowww.ole.uhu.es

Universidad de Huelva (Spain)miedes@uhu.es

Research-Action Line “Governance” European Network of Territorial Intelligence

www.territorial-intelligence.eu

axis B {job systems}Territorial job systems, innovation

and governance for creating and adapting jobs in the socio-ecological transition

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