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Job-Jumping Weserbergland - Federal Republic of Germany
Source: European Union
The target group are people with responsibility for childcare who are unemployed and or who need social security. Mostly these people are unable to get a job because
The development partnership wants to create new jobs in rural areas mainly in the sector of new information and communication technologies or modern services. The employability of the target group should be improved by different training on the job. The female rate of employment is supposed to raise. For this it will be necessary to promote the compatibility of job and family.
It is the intention of the development partnership to create an comprehensive service in order to integrate the target group into the labour market.
The priority is to work out new ways of information, training and placement to improve the qualification of unemployed parents.
First there will be a short training in selected companies to check up the qualification of the target group. The second step will be a complete advising service (Job Jump) that will people integrate in labour market or special vocational training in the companies (Check In).
The adviser of Job Jump will also help interested enterprises to introduce flexible or reduced working hours and teleworking. In co operation with training institutes there will be offered a teleworking training to those employees who are planning to stay at home for a short time to educate their children. At the end of the training they will be able to start part time work as a teleworker, thus they will not loose the contact to their employer while having child raising leave. At the same time, the target group will work at the companies in form of job rotation. At the end of child raising leave, both employee an unemployed person will share a job.
To improve the compatibility of job and family, the partnership will establish an agency which helps parents, who want to go back to work, to find the right care for their children. In addition to that, there will be a half years training offered to the target group that qualifies to get a child care job at school. With that, primary schools will be able to offer fixed school times in between 7.30 in the morning and midday.
Description of Weserbergland Region
The Weserbergland Region is a rural area in the north of Germany (Lower Saxony). It consists of three administrative districts (Counties of Holzminden, Hameln Pyrmont an Schaumburg) with 411.000 inhabitants. Regionally formative is the river Weser, a hilly landscape, forestry and agricultur land.
In the last nintyth the three counties have been growing more and more together, because of their common tourism interest. Since last year, the region is in the process of creating a regional development concept. Different authorities are involved in this partnership, such as local authorities, district councils, employment administrations, chambers of education and local enterprises.
Economically predominant for the area are the producing industries in the north and rural services and health services in the middle and the south.
The rate of unemployment is higher than in the rest of Lower Saxony. Especially women workers, people who are looking for part time jobs and those who have been unemployed over a long period are not successful in getting a job. The region has a very low rate on qualified employees but a high rate on unqualified employees than the rest of Lower Saxony. Because of structural change in the last few years, the area has lost a lot of unqualified jobs in the producing industry.
There are structural problems in the rural area concerning mobility and flexibility which prevent discriminated groups finding work. Individual problems such as being single parent and having no nursery for example increase the risk of unemployment.
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