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Rennes Metropole is using social clauses in public procurement for its waste management activities to tackle long term unemployment among low skilled people.
Glasgow gives employment opportunities in the green sector to people with a low employability profile through a traineeship scheme with the city council.
In Brussels Capital Region, micro-grants have been used to support the growth of green businesses in disadvantaged areas, and encourage new and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Successful collaboration between a team specialising in the employment of people with disabilities and the municipal park company has helped provide support to individual employees and made the company itself more responsive to their needs.
Antwerp is running an advice and demonstration centre for residents to improve energy efficiency of homes.
Amsterdam uses public procurement to support its young people at risk of exclusion to obtain a formal engineering qualification and work experience. It combines training measures with creating job placements specifically for this target group.
Through building partnerships between the public and private sectors, the city of Newcastle has improved the energy efficiency of its housing stock, decreased fuel poverty and created jobs and training opportunities for vulnerable young people.
22@ Barcelona is an urban transformation project with the aim of creating a new innovation district.
The Madrid Río project aims at converting the zone alongside the Manzanares River into green areas to make the city eco friendlier.