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Project factsheets
Strategic workforce planning (SWP) for the ports of Strasbourg and Kehl
In order to arrive at this action plan, the exercise’s final objective, which
will be developed with companies, a process composed of several
stages has been carried out, whose deliverables are available on the
website of the Strasbourg Jobs and Training Centre:
Ì Ì benchmarking of experiences of port area/multi-sector/territorial/
cross-border SWP exercises in France and Europe
Ì Ì interviews with around 30 “head of network” players, both
institutional and private, in the ports of Strasbourg and Kehl,
conducted by the ADEUS around seven key questions condensed
into the form of seven factsheet-tools (“What are the main issues
for the future of the ports?”; “Changes in the sectors present in
the ports”; “How are firms expecting their sectors to change?”;
“Medium- and long-term skills needs”; “What will the professions
of the future be?”; “Professions under threat?”; “What are the
training priorities to meet current and future needs?”)
Ì Ì a presentation of the economic fabric and professions of the port
area, including a mapping of the firms, jobs and professions in
the port of Strasbourg, as well as a forward-looking presentation
of professions up to 2020
Ì Ì a discussion among institutional players that took place on 25
November 2013 in Kehl in the form of three roundtables on issues
relating to jobs in the port areas of Strasbourg and Kehl.
What are the priorities for
action and objectives over
the short term?
The interviews conducted with the
institutional players have made it possible to
determine four priority areas for action in
the ports of Strasbourg and Kehl:
- managing the impact of deindustrialisation in terms of jobs
(stepping up support for job-seekers who are unemployed as a
result of restructuring)
- optimising the existing training infrastructure (focusing
technical training on mastering tools, strengthening linguistic
competence, recognition of qualifications, etc.)
- promoting technical career paths (mainly in France, by
fostering apprenticeships)
- supporting retraining (through the strengthening of in-service
training and short training courses).
In addition, the cross-border SWP exercise is linked to short-term
schemes aimed at young people. One of these is the project called REVE
(Rapprochement Entre Voisins pour l’Emploi – Bringing Neighbours Closer
Together for Jobs) run by the Strasbourg Jobs and Training Centre. In
2013, it organised a series of visits to German firms based in the port
of Kehl that needed new staff and were offering apprenticeships in the
professions where they had staff shortages.
To what extent can this good practice be
adopted in other cross-border territories?
The Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict is not the only cross-border
territory with a shared economic sector on both sides of the border:
Saarland and Lorraine both have a specialisation in the automotive
sector, the French and Spanish Basque Country in agri-food, the
French-Belgian border region in the textile industry, etc. Depending
on the degree of complementarity between the economic fabrics
on either side of the border and the common outlook for change in
the sector, a similar exercise might prove to be beneficial in order to
better anticipate future needs and work out a coordinated response.
It is also interesting to note that the territorial SWP exercise
combines the issues concerning economic activity (companies) and
those concerning jobs/training (employees). As a result, it constitutes
a structuring process of economic development that is helping to
jointly develop the different sectors, professions and the range of
available training.
For more information:
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Contact:
Project manager in the sectors of the Ports of Strasbourg/Kehl and of
industry
Maison de l’Emploi et de la Formation de Strasbourg