LOCAL SKILLS MATTER

LOCAL SKILLS MATTER – A Journey through Entrepreneurial Communities

A country-wide survey of the application of tools for territorial governance of VET systems, based on the experience of countries covered by the Entrepreneurial Communities initiative.

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As part of its work on multilevel VET governance, in 2013 the ETF launched its Entrepreneurial Communities initiative to identify and acknowledge local partnerships that foster skills, entrepreneurship and job creation. The goal was to explore and learn from partner country practices in order to understand how these partnerships are formed, the impact they can have on communities and how they can inform policy.

Entrepreneurial communities are forward-thinking territorial partnerships that build on their collaborative advantage to stimulate the development of human capital, and so promote growth in the areas of employment, entrepreneurship and the private sector. Such local partnerships exist in all partner countries and are born and develop out of the specific needs and visions of local actors. They arise both in contexts where policies do not support good governance principles and where administrative capacity is limited at the local level, as well as where the VET governance model takes into account, or even moves towards, a multilevel governance approach. Where policies are supportive, and the governance model recognises and promotes actors at the local level, entrepreneurial communities not only achieve their vision and goals, but influence transformational change and impact the wider system.

The ETFinitiative identified and explored 10 concrete cases of Entrepreneurial Communities in 10 ETF partner countries, namely Algeria, Belarus, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia.

You may see the video reports for each country here.