Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’

Boosting Youth Enterprising Skills in Glasgow

The Bad Idea Organisation participates in My Generation at Work URBACT project in Glasgow. Discover how their approach helps boosting youth enterprising skills through youth enterprise competitions! 

By URBACT, on May 12th, 2014 at 12:38

Jobs and Growth in the European Union? Reflections on the 2013 European Employment Forum

URBACT was heavily involved this year, for the first time, in the annual conference on Employment in Europe in Brussels on the 12th and 13th of November. Highly appropriate, as the Jobs agenda is an important part of URBACT’s  agenda, projects and capitalisation work and Urbact now has much to contribute to the job generation […]

By Prof. Mike Campbell, on November 21st, 2013 at 18:27

Shrink Smart : A Challenge for Polish Cities

While the urban population is growing extremely fast in the world, some cities are shrinking dramatically, especially in Europe. It poses a series of problems in terms of liveability, sustainability and rehabilitation. Here the URBACT National Dissemination Point in Poland presents the case of two Polish cities – Bytom and Sosnowiec – that have explored solutions […]

By Segolene Pruvot, on February 20th, 2013 at 14:01

Roma mass exclusion from the labour market

It is a combination of complex factors that are responsible for the very high and concentrated levels of Roma unemployment. Low education no qualifications; out of date skills; living in settlements with poor transport links; isolated communities with limited access to jobs or information about jobs. Individually each one is a real barrier and obstacle […]

By URBACT, on March 23rd, 2012 at 12:30