News
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05/06/2020
PES Network Board agrees flexible response to the ongoing challenges of Covid
The PES Network Board’s online meeting of June 2020 not only reflected on the measures taken by PES to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, but agreed flexible solutions for the ongoing work of the Network in supporting PES through the recovery phase.
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08/05/2020
Can PES activate the inactive?
Read the thematic paper of the European Network of Public Employment Services (PES) on a new ‘PES initiative to support the activation of inactive groups’.
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30/01/2020
Quality management in practice: the case of the Austrian PES
Public Employment Services (PES) from seven EU Member States came together in November 2019 to share their experience on quality management. This was the topic of the ninth and last PES Network ‘Thematic Learning Dialogue’ (TLD) of 2019, hosted by the Austrian PES, the Arbeitsmarktservice (AMS), on 5-6 November in Vienna.
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30/01/2020
European PES learning how to use key performance indicators more effectively
Public Employment Services (PES) have been exchanging about how new types of key performance indicator (KPI) and target setting can deliver on a broader understanding of performance in the sector. PES representatives from six EU countries came together on 22-23 October 2019 for a PES Network ‘thematic learning dialogue’ on improved performance management hosted by the German PES, Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) in Nuremberg.
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30/01/2020
The Danish PES shares its expertise on evidence-based decision-making
Data on performance and outcomes plays a crucial role in the Danish public employment service (PES), 'STAR'. PES from five European countries came to Denmark to learn from their colleagues' experience on the topic during a learning dialogue on 'evidence-based services/decisions' on 17-18 September in Copenhagen.
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30/01/2020
How to effectively anticipate labour market changes
Transnational exchanges via the PES Network’s Mutual Assistance Project in Spain have highlighted some of the key ways that PES can respond to the increasingly complex and challenging short and medium-term perspectives they face.
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30/01/2020
PES Network learning on improved customer profiling
The PES Network’s sixth and seventh thematic learning dialogues both focused on recent practices and the latest thinking in the appropriate and effective use of improved profiling in the delivery of public employment services. They were hosted by the French and German PES respectively.
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30/01/2020
PES Network concludes landmark year
2019 was a landmark year for the European PES Network, with five years of valuable PES collaboration recognised by a formal evaluation and a European Commission proposal to continue the Network until 2027.
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30/01/2020
Updated EU skills profile tool for third country nationals
Public Employment Services (PES) can benefit from a newly updated online tool intended to help map the skills, qualifications and work experiences of asylum seekers, refugees and other third country nationals in order to facilitate their integration into the labour market and wider society.
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30/01/2020
A pilot ‘PES EU Innovation Lab’ launching in 2020
The PES Network is ready to take up the next level of cooperation, developing new ideas and solutions together with partners in a PES EU Innovation Lab. Inspired by successful examples in France and Flanders, an EU-wide PES innovation lab is being launched.