Making Inclusion Work: How work-based learning can bring excluded groups closer to the labour market.
IPPR and J.P. Morgan have commissioned a collection of case studies from across Europe looking at how work-based learning can help bring marginalised groups into the workplace.
As a result of this work we have identified a range of common themes and learning that will strengthen work-based learning programmes across Europe.
This conference, hosted in partnership with the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will explore the learning from the collection in more detail and look at what is needed to ensure work-based learning can bring excluded groups closer to the labour market.
J.P. Morgan has supported this work as part of its New Skills at Work programme.
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Proposed Agenda (all times local to Brussels):
13:30 Registration and Refreshments
14:00 Opening and Welcome
14.10 Presentation from Dr Manuel Souto-Otero, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
14:20 Keynote speech from Dorthe Andersen, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee (Employers' Group, Denmark); Chief Adviser at the Danish Employers' Confederation
14:40 Questions
15:00 Plenary session one: Working across sectors to ensure successful work-based learning systems
Clara Bassols, Director, Fundación Bertelsmann
Ben Butters, Policy Director, EUROCHAMBRES
Belén Otegui, Coordinación del Área de Programas, Pinardi
Chair: Clare McNeil, Associate Director for Work and Families, IPPR
16.00 Plenary session two: Integrating soft skills into work based learning
Sarah Stimson, Chief Executive, Taylor Bennett Foundation
Patrick Werquin, Professor, CNAM (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers – French Tertiary Education and Research Institution
Martina Dlabajová MEP (invited)
Chair: Joe Dromey, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR
17.00 Plenary session three: Designing work based learning around target groups
Arnaldo Abruzzini, CEO, EUROCHAMBRES
Dorthe Andersen, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee (Employers' Group, Denmark); Chief Adviser at the Danish Employers' Confederation
Agnes Roman, Advisor on Education & Training Policy, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
Giancarlo Dente, Programme Manager, Fondazione Giocomo Brodolini
Chair: Clare McNeil, Associate Director for Work and Families, IPPR
18:00 Closing – Tom Kibasi, Director, IPPR
18.15 END and drinks reception
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