PROGRAMME

Date: March 11th 2002
Time: 8.00 a.m. (7.30 early birds` breakfast)
Location: Leipzig Trade Fair
Presented by: Jutta Roitsch (Editor, Frankfurter Rundschau)

7.30 a.m. Early birds` breakfast
8.00 a.m. Opening ceremony by Wolfgang Tiefensee, Lord Mayor of Leipzig
8.05 a.m. Keynote speaker Sergio Arzeni, Head, OECD LEED Programme

Case studies: 4 international experts, examples of best practice
Young Entrepreneurs: Scotland, Great Britain - Carol Soutar
The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust (www.psybt.org.uk)

Women entrepreneurs: Slovenia - Marta Turk
Slovenian Association of Women Entrepreneurs, GIZ Podjetnost (www.podjetnost.org)

Age and the Job Market: United States - Robert Lerman, The Urban Institute (www.urban.org)

PISA Picking Up the Knowledge: OECD - Dr. Claudia Tamassia
OECD Center for Education, Research and Innovation (CERI) (www.pisa.oecd.org)
Moderation: Jutta Roitsch

9.30 a.m. Coffee break
10.00 a.m. Podium and discussion
11.45 a.m. Signing Ceremony: The City of Leipzig joins the LEED Partners Club
12.15 a.m. Lunchbreak
- Multilateral contact, exchange of knowledge

1.30 p.m. 4 different workshops:

- Young entrepreneurs (Strategies for young unemployed persons)
Presented by: Dr. Sigrid Blehle, Executive Vize President JC Germany

- Women (Strategies for the integration of women into the 1st job market)
Presented by: Marta Turk, Slovenian Association of Women Entrepreneurs

- Age and the job market (Employment strategies for the over 50s)
Presented by: Hartmut Siemon, Head of Betrieb für Beschäftigungsförderung (bfb), Leipzig

- Picking up the knowledge
Presented by: Rudolf Reichenauer, BMW Group

3.30 p.m. Coffee break

3.45 p.m. Reports from the OECD-Raporteurs

4.45 p.m. Follow up discussion
- Consequences for Leipzig
- Essential modifications to Leipzig`s way of thinking

Version: February 06th, 2002
For all OECD-participants a detailed information programme about the current situation of the Leipzig job market
will take place the previous weekend, starting on Friday, March 08th 2002.
An informative talk with the chamber of commerce-committees innovation and future, service, retail, industry and foreign trade is also planned on same day at 4.00 p.m.
An informal gathering is to take place on March 10th 2002.

This conference will be simultaneous translated into German and English.

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