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Jobtown Final Handbook Now Available!

Edited on

23 June 2015
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This document sets out to review the overall experience and achievements of JobTown, as well as the main learning and insights that might be relevant to others pursuing similar goals and partnerships, and the Policy Recommendations made to the European Parliament and Commission, on the basis of three years of this network’s efforts, in the field, in support of employment and local development.

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The document contains a selection of interviews with different key participants in JobTown giving their more personal views on how they’ve experienced JobTown and on their local approaches and priorities for supporting employment and economic development in their communities.

This is followed by a series of ‘posters’ highlighting the different localities top achievements in the JobTown project. Then, the reader is walked through a review of the main learning and insights gained through the process of participation in and developing JobTown.

Following that, the reader is offered the complete set of Policy Recommendations, as they were presented at the JobTown final conference in Brussels, March 2015, to participating Members of the European Parliament and European Commission officials from DG Regional and Urban Policy and DG Employment.

In closing, we present a synthesis of conclusions of all previous JobTown publications and some closing remarks about going forward in our collective efforts to tackle youth unemploy-ment and poor employment.

The Final Handbook is available on the Jobtown Library