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Cooperation of Public Employment Services, Private Service Providers, and Clients within Activation Policies in Germany The Ministry of Labour, Integration, Youth and Social Affairs of the State of Hessen (HMSI) has commissioned a consortium comprising the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Kultur e. V., Frankfurt am Main (GEWAK), the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture at Goethe Uni-versity Frankfurt (IWAK) and Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Work, to carry out the research and transfer project ‘Make it Work. Quality Processes within the Ser-vice-Triangle of Active Labour Market Policies’ on the function of cooperation between em-ployment agencies/job centres, commissioned third parties (private providers of employment services) and clients as job seekers entitled to benefits under SGB II, to identify key problems and develop opportunities for improvement. This research was conducted in three sub-projects with each partner responsible for one of these. The main policy recommendations have been authored jointly. A summary version of the reports of the sub-projects and the joint policy-recommendations are published in Schulze-Böing et al. (2026). 1,023 KB
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Make it Work. Quality Processes within the Service Triangle of Active Labpur Market Policies Summary version of the report of a joint reserach project by GEWAK (Frankfurt), Hochschule Fulde (Fulda University of Applied Sciences) and IWAK (Goethe-University Frankfurt). Subject of the research is the cooperation between Public employment services, private providers of employment services and, last not least, the clients resp. jobseekers. The report is advocating a relational approach of the implementation of active labour market and work integration policies. Project completed December 2025 4 MB
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Public Employment-Services in Germany. Policies, Practices, Perspectives An overview over public employment services in Germany. Commissioned by Korea Tech University, published in Korean 2025 6 MB
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Public Employment-Services in Germany. Policies, Practices, Perspectives An overview over public employment services in Germany. Commissioned by Korea Tech University, to be published in Korea 2025 6 MB
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Towards an "Outcome Revolution" in social and employment policies? Paper on outcome oriented management of social and active labour market policiy-measures. Will be published in NDV 6/2025 (in German) 1 MB
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Project Cooperate, Reach Out, Integrate Services (CRIS) - Final Report The CRIS-Project has been completed sucessfully in December 2024, one of 9 projects selected by the EU-Commission for funding under the EaSI-strand of ESF 2021-2024. Report by the transnational coordinator (Matthias Schulze-Böing). It was an inspiring experience and there were significant outcomes in terms of social innovation and improvement of quality and effectiveness of social services. 10 MB
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Final Conference of EaSI-Call "Holistic Approaches..." 23-24 April 2024, Brussels Presentation to the Conference of the EU-Commission, EaSI-Call, Minimum Income, 23-24-April 2024, Brussels 3 MB
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CRIS - Achievements and Failures of a Transnational Project under EaSI CRIS stands for Cooperate, Reach-Out, Integrate Services. It is the acronym of a transnational project, funded under EaSI/Progress by the European Commission. A transnational consortium including the City of Offenbach (as lead partner), People in Need (a NGO in Slovakia), the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Municipality of the 7th district of Budapest, Artémisszio (a NGO in Budapest) and the Budapest-Institute is exploring new ways of approaching vulnerable groups in the labour market. 925 KB
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Sanctions under the SGB-II-scheme of basic protection for jobseekers and suspended unemployment benefits under SGB-III (unemployment insurance) Sanctions under SGB II are a controversial issue in in the debate on social policy in Germany. They are a core element of activation policies. Recent reforms have loosened conditionality of the basic protection benefits and thus weakended the impact of the activation approach. Preliminary evidence shows a decrease of the performance of employment policies under the SGB-II-scheme. As a complement the recent available data for the equivalent of sanctions under the SGB-III-scheme of unemployment benefits, suspension of benefits, are presented as well. 797 KB
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Cooperation,Partnership and Ecosystems in Employment Services – the Case of Germany Presentation on the seminar "Public-Private-Partnerships for Better Employment Services", conducted by Korea-Tech-University 15-16 February 2024, Seoul. The seminar provided presentations on the models of PPP in employment services in Australia, UK, Germany and South Korea. See also: https://n.news.naver.com/article/001/0014508106 3 MB
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A Matrix of Performance and Quality Measures within the German System of Basic Income (SGB II) Impact is key, when it comes to the implementation of minimum-income and activation policies. The German system SGB II has a well developed framework of measurement of performance of the operational units of delivery as well as of the quality of services. This matrix is explaining the indicators and the data used for their calculation. 434 KB
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No Shift of Paradigm - The Buergergeld-Reform of Basic-Protection in Germany A comment. Germany has recently put in force a reform its basic social protection system SGB II, also know as "Hartz 4". Its now labelled "Bürgergeld" (citizens allowance). All in all it is not a shift a paradigm, but a re-branding of a successful system of integrated support, of course with some substantial changes, but also with continuity with regard to core principles. 1 MB
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Minimum Income Guarantees Germany in a European Perspective A lecture on the German system in a European perspective at Fulda University of Applied Sciences 2 MB
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Upskilling the Hard-to-Reach Presentation in a digital conference of the Slovak Business-Center on the "needs of the NEET" (those not in employment, education or training). 1 MB
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Improving the workflow between contract-providers of social services and public authorities - a digital solution developed and implemented by MainArbeit-Jobcentre Offenbach Delivering holistic social services it is of key importance to secure an effective collaborative workflow among private service providers, NGO´s and public bodies, be it jobcentres or social authorities. MainArbeit, the municipal jobcentre of the City of Offenbach has developed and implemented a digital tool allowing for a seamless workflow between contract providers of services and the jobcentre. Collaboration now can take place in real time. 703 KB
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CRIS – COOPERATE, REACH OUT, INTEGRATE SERVICES Fiche on a transnational project for the development of holistic methodologies to approach vulnerable target-groups farthest from the labor market. The project is funded by the EU under the program EaSI (Enployment and Social Innovation). I am the coordinator of the transnational consortium. 1 MB
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Holistic Social Services for the most vulnerable groups in the labour market Cooperate, Reach Out, Integrate Services (CRIS) A transnational project to enhance inclusion and foster employment of the most vulnerable on the labour market. Presentation at the Kick-Off-Meeting of EaSI Social Innovation Projects, 25-26 January 2022 1 MB
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The System of Basic Protection SGB II in Germany. Historical Background, Structure, Process, and Current Developments This paper is a contribution to the research-project "A case study of unemployment assistance delivery systems in the UK and Germany" at Korea University of Technology and Education, funded by the Ministry of Employment and Labour of the Republic of Korea. 1 MB
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Unemployment, Social Protection and Activation Policies in Germany Presentation prepared for a transnational on the impact of Corona on the labour market, poverty and active inclusion policies in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. The presentation also covers the issue of managing the Covid-19-Challenge in Jobcenters. 1 MB
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Acelerando la integración de refugiados en el empleo GIZ Colombia - SI FRONTERA, Estrategias nacionales y municipales para la integración - Viaje de estudios virtual, 1 de octubre de 2021 2 MB
