Regionaldirektion Baden-Wuerttemberg

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EURES-T Upper Rhine was founded to promote labour mobility and create a unique labour market in the cross-border region between Germany, France and Switzerland (Alsace, Southern Palatinate, Baden and North-western Switzerland). It also aims to overcome mobility obstacles. Currently, there are 97 000 cross-border workers. 26 000 french workers in Baden Germany (for 1000 german cross-border workers in France). 35 500 german and 33 000 french cross-border workers work in Switzerland. EURES-T Upper Rhine is composed of 21 partners all represented in the steering committee and other bodies of the partnership (finance committee). EURES-T Upper Rhine is currently financed via EaSI (2014-2020) until the end of 2021. There a several actions like the One-stop-shop, the labour monitoring tool, the EURES advisers giving counselling interviews, workshops and information events, but also several trainings with external experts to cover the demand of the cross-border jobseekers in the Upper Rhine region. The main challenges and aspects in the future are bottleneck professions, skills shortage, digitalization, and green jobs.