1 Non-formal and informal adult learning in the 2020 EU Strategy. Grundtvig contact seminar Traditional handcrafts Bratislava, Slovak Republic December

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Non-formal and informal adult learning in the Non-formal and informal adult learning in the 2020 EU Strategy.2020 EU Strategy.

Grundtvig contact seminar

Traditional handcrafts

Bratislava, Slovak Republic

December 9 – 12, 2010

Zuzana Stefanikova, [email protected]

Jana Bytcanekova, [email protected]

AINova, www.ainova.sk

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ContentContent

Characteristics of types of education Europe 2020 Strategy The role of education in the New Europe 2020

Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

Education and Training 2020 (2009)

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Formal educationFormal education

Is the hierarchically structured, chronologically graded 'education system', running from primary school through the university and including, in addition to general academic studies, a variety of specialised programmes and institutions for full-time technical and professional training.

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Non-formal education Non-formal education

Is any organised educational activity outside the established formal system - whether operating separately or as an important feature of some broader activity - that is intended to serve identifiable learning clientele and learning objectives.

“It is never too late to learn”

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Informal educationInformal education

Is the truly lifelong process whereby every individual acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from daily experience and the educative influences and resources in his or her environment - from family and neighbours, from work and play, from the market place, the library and the mass media.

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Europe 2020 StrategyEurope 2020 Strategy

In June 2010, the European Council formally adopted the new economic strategy of the European Union:

“Europe 2020 - A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. “

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Europe 2020 - a new economic strategyEurope 2020 - a new economic strategy

The strategy builds on what has been achieved and the lessons learned. The first priority must be to hasten the exit from the crisis, but the strategy must also provide the building blocks for growth that will be sustainable in the future.

Europe is recognised the world over for its high quality of life, underpinned by a unique social model. The strategy should ensure that these benefits are sustained and even further enhanced, while employment, productivity and social cohesion are optimised.

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Europe 2020 Strategy - prioritiesEurope 2020 Strategy - priorities

Smart growth: • developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation.

Sustainable growth:• promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more

competitive economy.

Inclusive growth:• fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and

territorial cohesion.

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Europe 2020 StrategyEurope 2020 Strategy

These three mutually reinforcing priorities should help the EU and the Member States deliver high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion.

The Union has set five ambitious objectives - on employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy - to be reached by 2020.

Each Member State will adopt its own national targets in each of these areas. Concrete actions at EU and national levels will support the strategy.

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EU Wide targetsEU Wide targets

1. Employment - 75% of the 20-64-year-olds to be employed 2. R&D / innovation - 3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in

R&D/innovation 3. Climate change / energy

– greenhouse gas emissions 20% lower than 1990 – 20% of energy from renewables – 20% increase in energy efficiency

4. Education – reducing school drop-out rates below 10% – at least 40% of 30-34–year-olds completing third level

education 5. Poverty / social exclusion

– at least 20 million fewer people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion

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How will the EU boost the progress?How will the EU boost the progress?

Through 7 flagship initiatives:

- “Innovation Union”- “Youth on the move”- “A digital agenda for Europe”- “Resource efficient Europe”- “An industrial policy for the globalisation era”- “An industrial agenda for new skills and jobs” - “European platform against poverty”

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National targetsNational targets

To ensure each EU country implements the Europe 2020 Strategy in a way that fits its particular situation, the 5 EU-level targets are being translated into national targets, to reflect the level of ambition, each is able to make to the wider EU effort.

This will happen in a dialogue with the Commission in order to check consistency with the EU headline targets.

Each country will then set its final national targets in its national reform programme at the end of 2010.

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GGuidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy.uidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy.

On their basis the member states will draw up National Reform Programme.

Part II of the Europe 2020 Integrated Guidelines relates to employment issues.

Guideline 7: Increasing labour market participation and reducing structural unemployment

Guideline 8: Developing a skilled workforce responding to labour market needs, promoting job quality and lifelong learning

Guideline 9: Improving the performance of education and training systems at all levels and increasing participation in tertiary education

Guideline 10: Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty

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GGuidelines for the Europe 2020 strategyuidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy

Based on the Guideline 8: Developing a skilled workforce responding to labour market needs, promoting job quality and lifelong learning, Member states should focus on:

promoting productivity and employability through an adequate supply of skills

complementing education and vocational training with effective incentives for lifelong learning

developing systems for recognising acquired competences promoting the acquisition of transversal competences and

creativity aiming their efforts particularly at supporting those with low

skills and increasing the employability of older workers enhancing the training, skills and experience of highly

skilled workers, including researchers

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GGuidelines for the Europe 2020 strategyuidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy

in cooperation with social partners and business improving access to training, strengthening career guidance

combined with systematic information on new job openings and opportunities

promoting entrepreneurship and enhanced anticipation of skill needs through joint financial contributions from governments, individuals and employers

promoting investment in human resource development, up-skilling and participation in lifelong learning schemes

enacting schemes to help recent graduates find initial employment or further education and training opportunities, including apprenticeships

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The role of education in the New Europe 2020The role of education in the New Europe 2020Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and YouthEducation, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

Education is an essential tool for achieving the objectives of Europe 2020.

Two of the strategy’s three priorities, smart growth, based on knowledge and innovation, and an inclusive high- employment society,

as well as three of its seven flagship initiatives (Innovation Union, Youth on the Move, and An Agenda for New Skills and Jobs) depend critically on education and training.

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Moving out of the crisis is the immediate challenge Yet innovation is a widely recognised necessity. Leading companies

and public and private bodies have long spoken for innovation to be given all the importance it deserves.

Europe 2020, the European Union’s new strategy for growth and social cohesion, centres on innovation and creativity

The interdependence between education, research and innovation – often referred to as the knowledge triangle – is a key element of European innovation policy.

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) – which is just now becoming fully operational – was a first step in establishing the best conditions for developing and strengthening these relationships.

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Youth on the Move is set to build on successful programmes like Erasmus to enhance the effectiveness and international attractiveness of Europe’s higher-education system

The Agenda for New Skills and Jobs means empowering people to adapt to new conditions through the acquisition of new skills. It will give an impetus to the strategic framework that we have put in place for European co-operation in education and training over the coming decade.

Advanced innovation systems in Europe are characterised by rich lifelong learning opportunities

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Digital literacy has become an essential key competence, and its uneven distribution – the so-called digital divide – is fast becoming a 21st-century form of social exclusion.

A. Vassiliou plans to mobilise another important innovation tool: culture, including the cultural and creative industries sector, which is a strong European asset, both on its own terms and as a factor in broader economic activity

Creative partnerships are increasingly used by business as well as by education to unlock creative talent and innovation capacities.

Creativity and imaginative thinking are at the source of innovation in all sectors.

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EU education and training policy 2020EU education and training policy 2020

has been given added impetus since the adoption of the- Lisbon Strategy 2000 - Education and Training 2010 Programme (2002)- Education and Training 2020 (2009)

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EU education and training policy 2020EU education and training policy 2020

“Education and Training 2020” (ET 2020) is a new strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training that builds on its predecessor, the “Education and Training 2010” (ET 2010) work programme.

It provides common strategic objectives for Member States, including a set of principles for achieving these objectives, as well as common working methods with priority areas for each periodic work cycle.

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The new strategic vision and framework 'ET The new strategic vision and framework 'ET 2020' addresses four strategic objectives2020' addresses four strategic objectives::

1. Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality;2. Improving the quality and efficiency of education and

training;3. Promoting equality, social cohesion and active

citizenship;4. Enhancing creativity and innovation, including

entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training.

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Strategic objective 1: Strategic objective 1:

Making lifelong learning and mobility a realityMaking lifelong learning and mobility a reality – To update and develop skills in line with changing economic and social

circumstances - To implement coherent and comprehensive lifelong learning strategies- To develop national qualifications frameworks based on relevant learning outcomes - To speak for greater openness towards non-formal and informal learning and making

periods of learning abroad - To increase transparency and recognition of learning outcomes - To promote adult learning, to increase the quality of guidance systems, and to make

learning more attractive in general - To develop new forms of learning and the use of new teaching and learning

technologies- To expand mobility for learners, teachers and teacher trainers - To achieve this will require renewed efforts on the part of all concerned, for instance

with regard to securing adequate funding.

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Strategic objective 2:Strategic objective 2:Improving the quality and efficiency of education and Improving the quality and efficiency of education and trainingtraining

- To raise the level of basic skills such as literacy and numeracy,- To make mathematics, science and technology more attractive- To strengthen linguistic competences - To ensure high quality teaching- To provide adequate initial teacher education, continuous professional

development for teachers and trainers, and to make teaching an attractive career-choice

- To improve the governance and leadership of education and training institution - To develop effective quality assurance systems.

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Strategic objective 3:Strategic objective 3: Promoting equity, social cohesion and active Promoting equity, social cohesion and active citizenshipcitizenship

To enable all citizens, irrespective of their personal, social or economic circumstances, to acquire, update and develop over a lifetime both job-specific skills and the key competences needed for their employability and to support further learning, active citizenship and intercultural dialogue

To promote intercultural competences, democratic values and respect for fundamental rights and the environment, as well as to combat all forms of discrimination, equipping all young people to interact positively with their peers from diverse backgrounds.

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Strategic objective 4: EStrategic objective 4: Enhancing creativity and nhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and trainingof education and training

- Creativity and innovation are crucial to enterprise development and to Europe's ability to compete internationally

- A first challenge is to promote the acquisition by all citizens of transversal key competences such as digital competence, learning to learn, a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, and cultural awareness

- A second challenge is to ensure a fully functioning knowledge triangle of education-research-innovation.

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OPEN METHOD OF COORDINATION / OMCOPEN METHOD OF COORDINATION / OMC

The OMC is a relatively new and intergovernmental means of governance in the European Union, based on the voluntary cooperation of its member states.

The OMC should draw on:

- the four strategic objectives for European cooperation outlined above,

- common reference tools and approaches,

- peer learning and the exchange of good practice, including the dissemination of outcomes,

- periodic monitoring and reporting,

- evidence and data from all relevant European agencies, European networks, and international organisations,

- making full use of the opportunities available under Community programmes,

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Lifelong Learning Prgramme post-2013Lifelong Learning Prgramme post-2013

Main problems identified

1/ implementation of LLP principles not even across EU MS

2/ mobility actions not reaching enough young people

3/ level and efficiency not responding to the needs

4/ problems related to demographic changes

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Lifelong Learning Prgramme post-2013Lifelong Learning Prgramme post-2013

To ensure reaching objectives – operational objectives are set up:

1/ systems to reach critical mass of target groups

2/ ensure the recognition of reached qualification

3/ identify possibilities of further (co)funding

4/ simplify the management and administrative processes of the programme

5/ simplify the structure of the programme

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Sources of informationSources of information www.ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm http://www.nuffic.nl/international-organizations/international-education-

monitor/nuffic-blog/europe-2020-the-importance-of-higher-education-for-europe2019s-smart-sustainable-and-inclusive-economy-1

http://www.innovationeu.org/news/innovation-eu-vol2-1/0189-the-role-of-education-in-the-new-europe-2020.html

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2009:119:0002:0010:en:PDF

http://www.learningteacher.eu/news/2009/05/strategic-framework-european-cooperation-education-and-training-et-2020

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:308:0046:0051:EN:PDF

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1 Non-formal and informal adult learning in the 2020 EU Strategy. Grundtvig contact seminar Traditional handcrafts Bratislava, Slovak Republic December