Sustainable economic activities are complex processes: they are often driven by contradictory or conflicting goals and strategies in regard to reaching a balance between economic growth, ecological goals and social concerns. Besides acknowledging the importance of technological and organisational innovations in these dynamic processes, the sustainability discourses are increasingly concerned with human resources. They address the…

Over the years, regional and local labour market observatories have provided reliable and targeted labour market information and intelligence for regional and local decision-makers. Recent developments show that they are increasingly expected to fulfil tasks beyond mere data provision and analysis. Hence, they are emerging as interpreters, evaluators and mediators in regional and local governance…

Currently, skills shortages can be observed in different sectors and occupations and they are expected increase further. This will demand more skills, specialisation, improved education and training as the economic crisis has uncovered the existing gaps and the importance of tailored education and training. Also new jobs require innovative concepts and forms for training and…

Even though geographical mobility is relevant for regions and localities, the regional dimension does often not feature in the discourses on geographical mobility. Therefore, the Annual Meeting of the EN RLMM addressed the issue of measuring geographical mobility from the perspective of regional and local labour market monitoring. This concerns out-migration, which takes place in many rural…

Fighting youth unemployment is an important goal of many labour market actors  at regional level. An important prerequisite for systematically devising strategies and applying measures for reducing youth unemployment and the associated instability is transparency concerning the dynamics of the regional labour market. With the instruments of regional labour market monitoring, a high degree of transparency can…

Within regional labour market monitoring, information is con­tinuously generated and communicated to regional and local labour market actors. This helps them to assess current and future developments within their local situations, to adopt strategies and to devise specific measures based on a common situational interpretation. The continuing networking between local labour market actors with the aim to…

The focus of the Annual Meeting of the EN RLMM was on discussing and analysing models for identifying prospective qualification/skills needs at regional and local level. To explore regionally customised monitoring approaches, good practice examples of regional/local approaches successfully helping to identify prospective qualification/skill demands were introduced. Furthermore, successful operating systems from various European regions were compared regarding…