The Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. is a member of the Local Partnership for Employment of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and it is the body in charge of the process of preparation and implementation of the Human Resources Development Strategy of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. Thus, on 30 March 2011, the Code of Local Partnerships for Employment of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the Partnership Agreement signed by 22 members were adopted. Today, LPZ has 26 members. The legal representative of the LPZ is Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The membership structure is as follows:
– Public sector 31%
– civil sector 38%
– private sector 19%
– Supporting institutions 12%
The members of the LPZ are:
- Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (PGC)
- City of Rijeka
- Croatian Chamber of Economy – Rijeka County Chamber (HGK)
- Croatian Employment Service, Regional Office Rijeka (HZZ)
- Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (HOK)
- University of Rijeka
- Croatian Employers' Association, Regional Office Rijeka (HUP)
- National University, Institute for Education and Culture, Rijeka
- Local Development Agency PINS d.o.o., Skrad
- Entrepreneurial center Vinodol, Novi Vinodolski
- Centre of Technical Culture Rijeka (CTK)
- Association UMKI, Rijeka
- Association for Civil Society Development SMART, Rijeka
- Lovran College - Adult Education Institution, Lovran
- Centre for Education Rijeka
- Nexus d.o.o. Rijeka
- Centaroprema RE&ZIN d.o.o. Rijeka
- Association for Family Protection UZOR, Rijeka
- Society of Physically Disabled Persons of the City of Rijeka, Rijeka
- Association of Autonomous Trade Unions of Rijeka, Office of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Rijeka
- Republic Union of Workers of Croatia, Rijeka
- Family Center of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Rijeka
- Cooperative PUT, Rijeka
- Secular Franciscan Order, Local Fraternity Trsat, Rijeka
- Association Moj otok, Punat
- Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. (RRA PORIN)
The Local Partnership for Employment of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (LPZ) is therefore the body for the preparation of the Human Resources Development Strategy at the county level, and the main tasks relate to:
The main tasks of the LPZ under the Partnership Agreement relate to:
– identifying problems, ideas, growing clusters and any other employment policy issues;
– engaging all available sources in favour of an integrated strategy accepted by all partners, based on the needs of the county and established by a formal mandatory LPZ;
improving the coordination of measures related to employment, with the aim of developing the county strategy of the LFS, as part of and elements for encouraging it,
-Support the implementation of case-related measures in line with the LSP strategy.
Membership of the LPZ has the obligation to actively participate in all its activities and to provide the necessary and agreed contributions to:
- developing the RLJP strategy in cooperation with the bodies responsible for the development of the new County Development Strategy, the CES and the stakeholder group,
- developing an action plan, describing the process of implementing the PSLF strategy in line with possible sources of funding;
- thematic working groups, established in the LPZ and chaired by its appointed member,
- organization of project consortia and encourage the development of quality projects under certain calls for proposals and the use of other EU, national and community programmes,
- the functioning of the LPZ itself by enabling similar contributions and ensuring the active participation of responsible persons,
- making recommendations in defining the enrolment policy and school programs of educational institutions in the area of PGC.
The tasks referred to in the LPZ Code are:
- a) LPZ is the most appropriate body for the preparation and implementation of County Human Development Strategies
Potentials (GDPs) that support the county's development strategy on the basis of consensus
its partners/stakeholders as an umbrella organisation covering all local/regional
Competence and initiatives for labour market development:
- programming, developing a coordinated strategy, advising on the county development of the RLJP; liaising with the Regional Partnership Council;
- creating its own programmes at county level – in line with the development strategy and organising their implementation, using all sources of funding;
- Encouraging and ensuring the involvement of stakeholders in the process of planning and implementing the LSD policy.
- b) during the organisation and implementation of the activities, the LPZ will apply the working principles of the partnership; and
transparency, both internally and externally;
- c) LPZ's work is public.
The Local Partnership for Employment has the Assembly, the Management Board and the Secretariat, as well as three thematic working groups: for improving partnership relations and activation measures in the labour market (TRS 1), for the inclusion of socially excluded persons (TRS 2) and for improving the quality of education and science (TRS 3).
The LPZ operates through regular annual sessions of the Assembly, the Management Board and the DSB, where it discusses the implementation of the strategy, evaluating project ideas and monitoring the implementation of various projects, presenting new initiatives for projects and activities that contribute to the implementation of strategic objectives, and others.
The Local Partnership for Employment of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County was adopted on 29 January 2015. Human Resources Development Strategy of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County 2015-2020
Link to Human Resources Development Strategy 2014-2020:
