Transcript REGION MIDTJYLLAND UNDER DANNELSE

New Skills for New Jobs
Challenges and Partnerships in Central Denmark Region
Lars Vildbrad, Deputy Director
Regional Development, Central Denmark Region
Region North Jutland
577.005
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Aalborg
Local government reform
n Viborg
Central Denmark Region
1.212.988 – 22% of the Danish
population
Region Greater Copenhagen
1.631.537
n
Hillerød
Vejle n
Region Sealand
805.954
n Sorø
Region South Denmark
1.183.823
The new regions
19
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 Council
41 members
Growth
Forum
Executive committee
19 members
Coordinative
Committee
Chairman
and 19 mayors
20 members
Committees
Regional administration
Growth Forum – strategic focus
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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
Aarhus University
10.000 employees
Private sector
28.000 students
VIA
University College
2.000 employees
Public sector
15.000 full-time students
several thousand part time students
Youth education and adult education and training
Secondary school
(38)
Business college
(20)
Technical college
(20)
Primary school
Adult
educational center
(11)
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
KompetenceMidt
Job center
Labour market
Representatives
Business
College
Other
networks
Adult
education
center
Job center
Social and
health care
school
Language
school
Technical College
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Education
Center
Job center
Business
bureau
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