EBLIDA információ- Policy, Practice and Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning - Summary report, April 2004

[Dr. Vasas Livia]

Kedves Kollegák, 
Az EBLIDA listáról továbbítom az élethosszig tartó tanulással kapcsolatos legfrissebb anyagokat
Üdvözlettel
Vasas Lívia

Announcement
Policy, Practice and Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning (2-3 June 2003) 
Conference Summary Report (Chisholm, Lynne: Getting to work on lifelong
learning: policy, practice and partnership: summary conference report / Cedefop. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004). 
http://www2.trainingvillage.gr/etv/publication/download/panorama/4033_en
.pdf,

The summary report of Cedefop's June 2003 lifelong learning conference has now been published and copies are available free of charge via info at cedefop.eu.int (Cedefop publication stock number 4033 EN). Translations into French and German will be available in due course.

This summary report presents the main issues and outcomes of the conference and sets these into the flow of current policy development at European level.

This report is also available for free downloading in pdf-format from the European Training Village (ETV) at: www.trainingvillage.gr, where you will similarly find pdf versions of the full-length conference proceedings and the initial report on the 2003 Lifelong Learning Eurobarometer results (Lifelong Learning - Citizens' views, in EN, DE and FR; Cedefop publication stock number 4025).

In early 2004, the first joint interim report (Education and Training
2010: the success of the Lisbon strategy hinges on urgent reforms, 2004) from the European Council and the European Commission on progress towards the Lisbon goals for education and training was adopted (see http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/2010/et_2010_en.html). The report argues that implementing lifelong learning is a priority area for immediate action: "There is a need for coherent and comprehensive national lifelong learning strategies. . Nearly 20% of young people fail to acquire key competences. . Too few adults participate in lifelong learning." 

The 2004 report also aims for a fully integrated Education and Training 2010 agenda by 2006, when the second interim report will be delivered. This means that the follow-up to the Future objectives of education and training systems in Europe report, the Copenhagen Declaration on enhanced cooperation in vocational education and training, the Commission Communication Making Lifelong Learning a Reality for All and the European Parliament and Council's 2001 Recommendation on mobility within the Community for students, persons undergoing training, volunteers, teachers and trainers should all dovetail into a coordinated work programme, supported by the new generation of Community action programmes in education, training and youth that are due to begin in 2007 (The new generation of Community education and training programmes after 2006).

Little real progress has been made since the large-scale consultation process (Cedefop, 2002; European Training Foundation, 2001) that was launched following the publication of the Commission's 2000 Memorandum on Lifelong Learning. All countries in Europe have to take some action to make lifelong learning a concrete reality.

The Conference proceedings (November 2003), broken down in four smaller files, thematic reports associated with the conference workshops and the citizens' Views - LLL Eurobarometer Survey (June 2003) are also available for free downloading.