BEST Project: Award Winner of eTwinning Prize Netherlands 2008! For the report, see: http://web.kennisnet2.nl/thema/etwinning/erkenning/nl_prijzen

Worldconnector Tineke Lambooy meets the students of Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum in Leiden during a live video connection on Tuesday 4 December. In the second live streaming video session from 09.30 to 10.30, you can watch Lambooy in a discussion with students about Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Global Citizenship.

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After this session you can watch the video with Tineke Lambooy in the archive. This connection is part of ‘Learning Circle’ and ‘Expert on a distance’. In this project students meet international experts and talk with them about MDGs and Global Citizenship through video and web conferencing. More information on www.expertopafstand.nl.

Tineke Lambooy is the author of the book “Een Wereld te Winnen. Zestien visies op Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen” (‘A world to gain: sixteen views on corporate social responsibility’), a multidisciplinary study on corporate social responsibility (Kluwer 2006). Tineke focuses on this area in her work as a lawyer and university lecturer/researcher.

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Between summer 2006 and summer 2007 the number of jobs in the European Union has  increased by three million. In total there are 222 million jobs. Europe has about 500 million citizens of which 325 million are employed aged 15-64.

The job increase is especially established by economic growth in Germany, Poland and Spain.

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The creation of new jobs is the strongest in Eastern European countries.

In Q3  the unemployment rate has decreased in almost all EU countries to, on average, 7.1 percent.  Poland has the strongest decrease: with 4.2 percent (to 9.1 percent of the working population.) In 2005 8.7% of the labour force was unemployed,  compared with 5.1% in the United States.

The development of the unemployment rates in Europe equals figures in the United States and Japan, respectively 4.6 and 3.8 percent in Q3.

More than a half of the European employees between 20 and the 39 years consider a job change.

According to 39 per cent switching to another job is to blame to their employer. Employers insufficiently  support employees to realise their potential.

This is the outcome of the research report ‘ Dream job or Career Nightmare?’ of the international consultancy OPP. The investigation has been conducted under 3,000 fulltime employees in 6 European countries, in the age category 20-69 years.

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36 per cent said that a better salary was the main reason for changing jobs in the past. But it is not only money. Besides lack of challenge, insufficient career perspective and dissatisfaction are the given answers.

Dutch employees are more satisfied than colleagues from France, United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland and Belgium. However one of every three employees questioned, say that the organisation lacks  structured evaluation and feedback.

The so-called career nomads have financial consequences for organisations, like extra costs for hiring new experienced staff and expensive training costs. Moreover, the loss of knowledge is an expense  that is open to estimation. Retaining personnel can only be realised when organisations pay more structural attention to the support and development of its employees. 

Download the research report

The When We Connect Project! Polish-Dutch Divide? What’s the connection? 
When We Connect was set up for Dutch and Polish high school students.
Students learn about each other and their countries throughout the school year,
and hold a conference on European issues in The Hague in May of 2008. 
When We Connect would love to see a follow-up conference in Poland in 2009, but needs your support!
See: http://www.europeesplatform.nl/polen/

In Lisbon, October 2007, the Comenius Mobil ID Project was launched. This project is about European and Global Citizenship. Mobil ID stands for mobility and identity. Young citizens of Europe use their mobile and are far more mobile than European citizens have ever been. Social networking and a ‘nodes-and-ties’ structure are patterns of European life of today and the future. How flexible do we need to be to be in constant dialogue with rapidly changing values? See http://mobilid09.googlepages.com/