Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges REGIONS FOR ECONOMIC CHANGE – SHARING EXCELLENCE The Age Alliance Network Working for Older Workers “ JobMentoring for Unemployed 50 + The Western Mecklenburg Experience

The Transnational Experience:   Focussed on the same target: (Integration of disadvantaged target groups)   JobMentoring as joint Tool   Study Visits with strategic partners were very beneficial (Key Players of the employment agency and business-manager were involved) Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK

All National Projects Have Contributed to the Network NTI has in Particular:   Developed the Innovation-Team Concept; merging employed with unemployed worker and trained them   Applied and Developed the Role of Job Mentors; connection between companies and jobseeker   Introduced the Idea of Patchworking, “new” for Western Mecklenburg Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK

Mainstreaming from the Network   Dissemination of the idea of JobMentoring in the region   Take Account of Age Alliance Mentoring Experience   “National network age management” Germany   Implementation and application of the method in the RegioVision GmbH Schwerin 2007   Integration of: ARGE (Employment Agency), Municipality of Schwerin Entrepreneurs’ Assoc., Ministry of Economy   Extension of the application field to the other ARGE in the region of Western Mecklenburg Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK

Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK Challenges and Successes in the Policy Arena   Sensitization of the management of employment agencies; funding increase for “50+” projects   Sensitization of employers; knowledge of best practice in other counties   Improvement of further education measures; changing in vocational training   Improvement in the integration of people 50plus; employment rates increased in the last two years

Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK Challenges for the Future   Geographic enlargement of the field of activities to Europe; particularly the new member states in the east   Broadening of target groups – 12% of Migrants are unemployed in my hometown Schwerin   Improvement of methods - knowledge exchange; transfer of best practice among EQUAL-Partnerships (Germany and Europe)

Working Together To Address Demographic Challenges THE AGE ALLIANCE NETWORK Contact Jürgen Brandt RegioVision GmbH Schwerin