This Thematic Review Paper discusses how the European Public Employment Services (PES) can develop and improve Human Resource Management (HRM) strategies, procedures and tools to support and motivate their staff to meet evolving customer and stakeholder expectations in a changing labour market....

Digital technologies have been used by public employment services (PES) for about half a century now. In the 1960s the first mainframe computers arrived to first support processing and computational work. Ever since, the developments in the digital domain have gone quickly; after mainframe...

This technical guidance document has been prepared for DG Climate Action, to support the EU Member States in complying with the 'LULUCF Regulation', Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals...

The report includes the literature overview in relation to Service Request EASME/EMFF/2017/038 "Study to support investment for the sustainable development of the blue economy". The report has been prepared in the time period April, 2018 - May, 2018 and provides only high level overview on...

The study is part of the ongoing Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law, focusing on the Consumer Sales and Guarantees (CSG) Directive 1999/44/EC which is a minimum harmonisation Directive. The study assessed the costs and benefits of Member States going beyond the minimum rules laid...

The study is part of the ongoing Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law, focusing on the Consumer Sales and Guarantees (CSG) Directive 1999/44/EC which is a minimum harmonisation Directive. The study assessed the costs and benefits of extending certain consumer rights under the...

Effective performance management is key to improving the practices and outcomes of European PES. This paper aims to extend existing research undertaken through the PES to PES Dialogue and PES Mutual Learning programmes in three dimensions. First, it presents findings on recent reforms and...

This report synthesises the feedback provided in national implementation reports submitted by national authorities as part of the mid-term evaluation of Erasmus+ and ex-post evaluation of predecessor programmes.

It was agreed with the Commission to include a specific standalone work package on the Student Loan Guarantee Facility (SLGF) as part of the mid-term evaluation of Erasmus+ and ex post evaluation of predecessor programmes. The SLGF is a totally new scheme under Erasmus+ (with a maximum initial...

Erasmus+ remains the flagship programme of the EU. The findings of this evaluation confirm the continued relevance, effectiveness and popularity of the programme. The programme delivers high EU added value to direct beneficiaries (learners and practitioners) but also organisations and indirectly...