Cet ouvrage, qui se propose plus généralement comme une contribution à l'analyse des politiques publiques locales, permet aujourd'hui de se faire une idée précise de ces politiques régionales de formation professionnelle continue: il en dresse en effet le premier bilan systématique à partir d'une approche à la fois "en surface" (l'ensemble des régions) et "en profondeur " (situation des trois régions-tests).

In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills, but uncertainty and mutual distrust among companies doom many policy initiatives to failure. Higher skills benefit society as a whole, so national governments want to foster them. However, business firms often will not invest in training that makes their workers more attractive to other employers, even though they would prefer having better-skilled workers.Culpepper sees in European training programs a challenge typical of contemporary problems of public policy: success increasingly depends on the ability of governments to convince private actors to cooperate with each other. In the United States as in Europe, he argues, policy-makers can achieve this goal only by incorporating the insights of private information into public policy. Culpepper demonstrates that the lessons of decentralized cooperation extend to industrial and environmental policies. In the final chapter, he examines regional innovation programs in the United Kingdom and the clean-up of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States--a domestic problem that required the coordination of disparate agencies and stakeholders.

Par étapes successives, la décentralisation de la formation professionnelle vient modifier la donne de l'action publique : nouveaux acteurs et nouveau partage des responsabilités, frontières mouvantes entre formation initiale, continue, orientation professionnelle, action pour l'emploi, émergence d'autres outils de pilotage et de régulation du système. Des contributions qui examinent les multiples facettes de la décentralisation et les évolutions des années 1990 pour mieux comprendre la période qui s'ouvre.

The Agora Thessaloniki project was established by Cedefop in 1997. The purpose of an Agora, three of which take place in Thessaloniki each year, is to provide a space for researchers to engage in debate with political/government representatives and social partners about a current topic ... Agora XI dealing with the learning region is to be jointly organised by Cedra and Agora teams ... Proposed issues to be debated at Agora XI 'Promoting the learning region - education and training agencies taking a leading role in promoting innovation on a regional basis.