“Benchlearning” Concept within the PES Network

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

ICON-INSTITUT assisted the Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) in enhancing the cooperation between Public Employment Services (PES) in the 27 EU Member States, Iceland and Norway, through activities that contributed notably to strengthen the PES ‘Benchaction’. Thereby, 2019 marked the beginning of the third cycle of the PES Benchlearning (BL) initiative, period during which PES were involved in research, mutual learning and assessment activities which leveraged their service delivery. All activities and results were in line with the Europe 2020 strategy.

The main subject of this project is the continuous implementation of the Benchlearning initiative in its third cycle, supported by ICON-INSTITUT. Benchlearning is an innovative concept to define evidence-based learning by combining quantitative and qualitative benchmarking, mutual learning and support to implementation of good PES practices. In order to provide evidence for recommendations to the Public Employment Services, an assessment of the PES performance and a comparative analysis of PES data is conducted.

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