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The European Commission finances projects enabling national, regional and local administrations, social and economic partners and other organisations to develop and deliver new services, develop and assess new policies and exchange good practices in the fields of employment, working conditions and social protection and inclusion. To facilitate the dissemination of the achieved results this report reviews good practice examples of projects supported by the European Programme PROGRESS in the years 2011-2012. For example, one group of projects in the field of employment focused on the development of public-private partnerships in employment services to enhance their quality and efficiency. The other group of projects contributed to the collection and exchange of good practices among European partner countries on career guidance services and vocational orientation to facilitate the transition of young people from education to work. Finally, projects in the area of social protection and inclusion focused on the promotion and development of national policies for healthy, active and dignified ageing. All projects collected a solid and comparative knowledge base, good practice examples from different [European Union] EU countries and policy recommendations, which may be interesting to policy-makers designing or implementing policy interventions in the respective policy areas. The projects covered by this report are good practice examples of public-private partnerships in employment, community involvement and skills forecasting in emerging economy sectors.

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