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European Training Foundation

Annual report

2000

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MISSION STATEMENT

The European Training Foundation is an agency of the European Union. It works incentral and Eastern Europe, the New Independent States and Mongolia, and with theMediterranean partners *.

Mission

The mission of the European Training Foundation is to support the reform of vocationaleducation and training and management training in the partner countries*.

Role

As a centre of expertise, the Foundation:

! provides analysis and advice on current initiatives and future needs in partnercountries;

! facilitates contacts between key actors in the vocational training field;

! disseminates information on EU best practice; and

! channels offers of cooperation from donors.

In the field of programme management, the Foundation:

! designs and implements projects;

! assists in monitoring and evaluation; and

! disseminates results.

* Within the framework of EU policy, the Foundation works directly with:

Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, CzechRepublic, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lebanon,Lithuania, Malta, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, thePalestinian Authority, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Syria,Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

The European Union supports the development of human resources in these countries through thePhare, Tacis and MEDA Programmes.


Annual Report

2000

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CONTENTS

Section 1. General...........................................................................................................5

1.1. Aims and objectives...........................................................................5

1.2. Organisational structure ...................................................................5

1.3. Advisory Forum .................................................................................6

1.4. The Foundation’s evaluation programme......................................7

Section 2. The Foundation’s activities in 2000 .........................................................9

2.1. The candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe ............9

2.2. South-Eastern Europe......................................................................11

2.3. New Independent States and Mongolia.......................................14

2.4. The Mediterranean countries and territories...............................17

2.5. Tempus ..............................................................................................19

Section 3. Co-operation with other EU agencies ...................................................23

Section 4. Financial report ..........................................................................................25

4.1. Funding sources ...............................................................................25

4.2. 2000 Budget execution.....................................................................25

4.3. Review of the European Training Foundation’sfinancial and management systems ..............................................26

4.4. Common support service................................................................27

Section 5. Personnel .....................................................................................................29

5.1. Staffing and organisation chart......................................................29

Section 6. The Governing Board ...............................................................................31

Annexes Annex 1. The Foundation’s activities in 2000 ....................................33

Annex 2. Table indicating budgetary &non-budgetary resources ......................................................42

Annex 3. Conventions table ..................................................................43

Annex 4. Tempus technical assistance conventions table ................45

Annex 5. Organigramme .......................................................................46

Annex 6. The Foundation’s Governing Board - List of members.....47

Annex 7. Events organised by the Foundation during 2000 ...........50

Annex 8. Publications list ......................................................................54

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GENERAL

1.1. Aims and objectives

The European Training Foundation is an agency of the European Unionestablished to promote the development of high quality, responsive vocationaltraining systems in the countries and territories of Central and Eastern Europe, theNew Independent States and Mongolia, and the Mediterranean area (“the partnercountries”).

As a centre of expertise in the field of human resource development theFoundation:

? provides analysis and advice on current initiatives and future needs in thepartner countries;

? facilitates contacts between key actors in the field;

? disseminates information on good practice in the European Union and MemberStates; and

? channels offers of co-operation from donors.

In addition, the Foundation manages a number of Phare and Tacis programmes onbehalf of the European Commission (“the Commission”), and provides technicalassistance to the Commission for the implementation of the Tempus programme.

In the first half of 2000 the Governing Board of the Foundation (see below)initiated strategic reflection on the future development of the Foundation. Theoutcome was a Governing Board decision to further develop the Foundation as acentre of expertise and to phase out its involvement in programme management,starting with the Phare programmes that will draw to a close by the end of 2001. Atthe same time the Foundation will become fully involved in the programmingcycle of the European Union’s external relations programmes (Phare, Tacis,MEDA and CARDS).

1.2. Organisational structure

The Foundation has a geographical approach to the needs of its partner countries,which is reflected by its four geographical departments. These cover the candidatecountries, the Western Balkans, the New Independent States and Mongolia andthe Mediterranean region. In the field of management training the activities areco-ordinated by the management training unit, a thematic unit that works inco-operation with the geographical departments. Specialised units providetechnical and administrative support to the organisation as a whole.

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The Foundation has a Governing Board chaired by the Commission, and made upof representatives from the Member States and the Commission. The GoverningBoard meets to discuss and approve the Foundation’s annual work programmeand budget, and is also consulted on proposals of major significance to themanagement of the Foundation.

An Advisory Forum, consisting of training experts from the Member States, thepartner countries, the Commission, international organisations and socialpartners, supports the work of Governing Board. It advises the Governing Boardon the annual work programme as well as meeting in sub-groups periodically todiscuss questions related to the reform of vocational education and trainingsystems.

The Director of the Foundation reports to the Governing Board and chairs theAdvisory Forum. He is supported by some 120 members of staff, who togetherimplement the work programme with an annual budget of EUR 16.2 million (2000figures).

In parallel with the strategic discussions held with the Governing Board and theCommission, the Foundation reviewed its internal staffing, organisation, andprocedures to ensure that they corresponded to the new strategic guidelines. As acomplement to the review of the technical and administrative support serviceslaunched in late 1999, which aimed at ensuring that existing support services weregeared to the needs of the operational departments, the Foundation commissionedstudies on its internal financial & management systems. The results weresubsequently incorporated into a set of recommendations, which were put intoaction in September 2000.

In addition the Foundation began work on setting new staffing targets for 2001 to2004, which were adopted by the Governing Board in autumn 2000. At the sametime, in agreement with the Commission, the Foundation launched a review of theorganisation of the technical assistance it provides to the Commission for theimplementation of the Tempus programme.

1.3. Advisory Forum

The annual meeting of the Advisory Forum took place on 15-17 June 2000 and wasattended by over 80 members. The main objective was for members to contributeto the early planning stages of the 2001 Work Programme with advice andguidance on the Foundation’s activities in each of the four regions. To this end fourregional sub-groups were organised. In addition six workshops, led byFoundation staff members, focused on the following issues:

? Continuing vocational training and its role in transition contexts;

? management training;

? increasing employability by integrating entrepreneurship in education andtraining;

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? the need for financial reform of the vocational training systems in the partnercountries;

? the labour market and vocational training; and

? regional vocational training strategies in a national context.

Workshop reports can be downloaded from the Foundation’s homepage atwww.etf.eu.int.

1.4. The Foundation’s evaluation programme

An Evaluation Steering Committee was set up in early February 2000 to advise theFoundation on its annual evaluation programme. The committee met for the firsttime in March and agreed the role and tasks of the Committee, and on the projectsto be covered in the evaluation programme of the Foundation for 2000:

1. Evaluation of the Foundation’s Multi-Annual Project “Training Needs

Analysis and Standards of Qualifications in Vocational Education and

Training”

The report was commissioned in late 1999 and delivered in June 2000. Theobjective was to take a critical look at the results achieved so far by thevarious activities implemented by the Foundation in the field ofqualifications and standards over the last five years. The report will bepresented to the next meeting of the Evaluation Steering Committee and willalso provide the basis for a discussion with experts and Foundation staff tobe held in early 2001.

2. Review of five years of activity of the Foundation’s Advisory Forum

The objective of this evaluation was to assess the outputs, outcomes andimpact, but also the processes and implementation mechanisms of theFoundation’s Advisory Forum. The draft report was discussed in theplenary session of the Advisory Forum in June and additional writtenfeedback requested. The Russian version of the report was prepared andsent out in late July. The comments and feedback received are currentlybeing incorporated and a final draft should be available in early 2001.

3. Evaluation of the Foundation’s Phare National Observatories

The evaluation of Phare National Observatories is particularly important inthe light of the increased attention on the role of the Foundation ininformation collection and analysis in the 2001 Work Programme. Launchedin October and building on the results of a mid-term assessment in 1997, thisstudy, assessed the achievements of the Phare National Observatories since1997, and proposed further measures to strengthen them in the future.Results from this evaluation will be available for the first Governing Boardmeeting in 2001. An evaluation of Tacis National Observatories will followin 2001.

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4. Review of EU Phare vocational education and training reform

programmes carried out between 1990 and 1998

Based on its experience over the last six years, the Foundation, theCommission’s Service Commun Relex (“SCR”) and DG Employment agreed tocarry out a final technical evaluation of the vocational education andtraining reform programmes managed by the Foundation. Prior to this, theFoundation also commissioned technical evaluations of each completednational Phare Programme, the results of this work feeding into the finalcross-country analysis. The purpose of this final evaluation was to analyseprogress made by Phare partner countries in reforming vocational educationand training systems as a result of the implementation of PhareProgrammes. A draft report has now been prepared for discussion in-house,and once completed will be presented to the Phare Committee in Brussels.

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THE FOUNDATION’S ACTIVITIES IN 2000

2.1. The candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe

Full details of the Foundation’s activities in the candidate countries are given inthe table on page 33. Some highlights of the work programme 2000 are detailedbelow.

1. Support to the Commission

During 2000, the Foundation continued to assist the Commission in implementingits pre-accession strategy within the candidate countries. In particular, theFoundation:

? continued to implement on behalf of the Commission, and in some casesbrought to a close, Phare reform programmes in the areas of vocationaleducation and training, management training, in-company human resourcesdevelopment and higher education in a number of candidate countries(Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania), as well as multi-countryprogrammes in distance education and higher education in all of the Pharepartner countries;

? successfully organised a series of local, regional, and national seminars (55 intotal) on the European Social Fund in the Phare candidate countries, as part ofthe Phare Special Preparatory Programme for the European Social Fund. Theprogramme culminated in a final conference in Brussels in October withhigh-level representation and support from the Commission’s DG Employmentand Social Affairs, as well as DG Enlargement. Within the Special PreparatoryProgramme, the Foundation also actively supported the development of theNational Training Institutes network, designed to help the candidate countriesin their preparations for the European Social Fund, through the provision oftargeted training and information. Among these was a final seminar aimed ataddressing the issue of sustainability of the National Training Institutes;

? provided expert advice to the Commission and the EC Delegations in thedesign of Phare programmes in the area of human resources development aswell as taking part in programming missions at the request of the Commission;

? supported specific ministries in the candidate countries on request with expertadvice on vocational education and training issues;

? updated the Foundation’s Review of Progress in Vocational Education andTraining Reform as an input to the Commission’s annual progress report on thecandidate countries’ readiness for accession;

? designed and launched a project starting in the Czech Republic, Hungary,Poland and Slovenia involving the production of country monographs on the

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vocational education and training systems and the employment services in thecandidate countries. The monograph project, which was initiated at the requestof the Commission’s DG Employment and Social Affairs, is intended tocontribute to the monitoring of the Joint Assessment Papers on employmentpolicies agreed between the Commission and the candidate countries.

2. Foundation-funded activities

The Foundation also designed and financed a number of pilot projects aimed atcomplementing or following-up Phare activities in certain candidate countries,particularly in the field of European Social Fund preparations. These includedsupport to:

? Lithuania for setting up a regional training centre;

? Eight Polish regions through a study visit programme to Germany andseminars;

? Romania for the continuation of the Constanta project in continuing trainingwith donor support from France, Italy and the Flemish Belgian Community;

? Lithuania and Latvia for teacher and trainer training with donor support fromFinland and Denmark;

? Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia through the organisation of seminarson social partner involvement in vocational education and training.

In 2000 the Foundation paid special attention to the problem of social exclusion,with particular emphasis on the Roma population in the Central Europeancandidate countries, and devised the following activities:

? a special conference with the support of the Portuguese authorities in Lisbon onthis theme and the contribution of the European Social Fund, in particular, tocombating social exclusion;

? a stocktaking exercise on good practice aimed at promoting social inclusion forthe Roma population in the candidate countries;

? a seminar on the subject of the role of training in combating social exclusion ofthe Roma population held in Sinaia (Romania) in October 2000 with the supportof the Soros Foundation.

3. Management training

Maintaining its presence in the field of management training, during the year 2000the Foundation:

? launched a regional company skills survey designed to provide information onthe skills needs of employers and to feed in to the process of developing humanresource strategies. The project contributes to candidate countries’ preparationsfor accession and eventual access to the EU structural funds, and in particularthe European Social Fund;

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? completed a joint employer’s initiative project in Bulgaria together with theGerman organisation OWZ, targeting intermediaries acting for small andmedium sized enterprises. A selected number of trainers drawn from theseintermediaries participated in a training programme that took place partly inBulgaria and partly in Germany;

? assisted the Bulgarian Government with the implementation of a managementtraining project by providing the technical expertise for the organisation,steering and monitoring of the project.

4. National Observatories

The Foundation continued to guide and support its National Observatories instrengthening their analytical capacities, promoting networking and monitoringtheir day-to-day work. Specific initiatives include:

? a project funded by the Foundation and organised with the support of anObjective 1 region in the UK. The objective was to enable NationalObservatories to understand the importance of gathering regional labourmarket information in the context of future regional European Social Fundprogramming, monitoring and evaluation. The project also aimed atdeveloping analytical skills;

? meetings in Turin providing tailor-made training and a forum for the exchangeof experiences;

? monitoring activities, giving feedback on reports and undertaking regularvisits to the partner country.

2.2. South-Eastern Europe

Full details of the Foundation’s activities in the South-Eastern Europe are given inthe table on page 35. Some highlights of the work programme 2000 are detailedbelow.


? Implementation of the 1997 Phare vocational education and trainingprogramme for Bosnia and Herzegovina was brought to a successfulcompletion with the final conference in Sarajevo at which a Green Paper onstrategy and policy for reform of Vocational Education and Training in Bosniaand Herzegovina was presented. The EC Delegation in Sarajevo also entrustedthe Foundation with a bridging programme (EUR 450,000), which started inMay and will lead to the conversion of the Green Paper into a White Paper, aswell as the implementation of the curricula developed under the 1997programme.

? In October the Foundation also concluded implementation phase of the Pharevocational education and training programme in the Former YugoslavRepublic of Macedonia.

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? Following the assignment of a member of the Foundation's staff to theCommission Task Force for the Reconstruction of Kosovo, a paper wassubmitted to the Commission in February 2000 identifying immediate post-wareducation and vocational training constraints, with proposals andrecommendations for follow-up. Specific recommendations were put forwardfor small and medium-sized enterprises skills development and managementtraining for the utilities following two workshops in Pristina involving keystakeholders in the Kosovar business environment. Finally, in cooperation withthe UNMIK Joint Administration, the Foundation supported a primary labourmarket data assembly measures with the launch of a labour market andtraining observatory.


Implementation of activities in the work programme 2000 proceeded largelyaccording to plan. Details of all of the activities are contained in the table on page33 and covered the following main areas:

Vocational education and training against social exclusion

In the field of vocational education and training against social exclusion theFoundation:

? finalised studies for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Former YugoslavRepublic of Macedonia as well as for all Phare candidate countries. Thepreliminary outcomes were presented at a meeting in May 2000;

? held a regional seminar on youth unemployment in South-Eastern Europe on19-20 June in Bulgaria and has led to a report on policy priorities for actions inthis field. The conference also led to the identification of two micro projects totest innovative means to combat youth unemployment, which were launchedin Croatia and Montenegro;

? launched a study on “examples of good practice for the integration of Romapeoples in education and the labour market through education and training”and presented the findings in a seminar in Romania in October. The studycovers all of the candidate countries (see page 33) including Turkey as well asAlbania.

Integration of work and learning

In the field of the integration of work and learning the Foundation:

? Organised in May a regional workshop for the integration of work and learningproject in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The workshop was combined with a meeting ofNational Observatories from the region. A plan for the publication andinternational dissemination of the project results was agreed.

? Began to prepare national round tables on the integration of work and learningin the countries in the region.

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Continuing vocational training

? In addition, South-Eastern European countries were represented at aconference on continuing training organised in Karlskrona, Sweden, togetherwith the candidate countries.

3. Management Training

? Work progressed on the design of a management training project for small andmedium-sized enterprises in Albania. The project should be launched in early2001.

? The Foundation launched an assessment of the current status of trainingprovision for managers in South-Eastern Europe. The assessment will focus onCroatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.


? In order to extend and strengthen the network of National Observatories in theregion, the Foundation opened new Observatories in Croatia, Montenegro, andKosovo.

5. Key role for the Foundation in Stability Pact

? The Foundation played a co-ordination role under the Stability Pact in the fieldof human resource development (HRD). As HRD is considered a cross-cuttingissue, the Foundation set up a working group consisting of representativesfrom partner and donor countries to contribute to both democracy/humanrights (Table 1, in co-operation with the Austrian Government led EnhancedGraz process) and economic reconstruction (Table 2).

? The work of the HRD Working Group included defining policy frameworksand developing project proposals, particularly in the field of small andmedium-sized enterprises support and social inclusion (see below).

? The work of the HRD Group contributed to the launch of priority projects inSouth-Eastern Europe (the so-called “Stability Pact Quick Start Measures”).

? The Foundation has also contributed to a review of the education sectorco-ordinated by the OECD and funded under the Stability Pact. The review willlead to reports on vocational education and training and employment in allSouth-Eastern European countries.

6. Advisory Forum Regional Group

The group met twice in 2000. The first meeting was held in Athens on 17-18February 2000 to:

? identify challenges and priorities for vocational education and training in thereconstruction process in South-Eastern Europe;

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? provide insight on the possible role of the Foundation in dealing with issues ofhuman resources development within the reconstruction process, and toidentify relevant activities for its Work Programme 2000 (in particular for itsprojects on vocational education and training against social exclusion and smalland medium-sized enterprises development);

? advise on the possible role of the National Observatories in the economicreconstruction process.

The second meeting of the regional group was held in the context of the annualAdvisory Forum meeting in Turin in June. The group reviewed the work of theFoundation in the region, and provided guidelines for the Foundation’s strategy inSouth-Eastern Europe 2001-2003.

2.3. New Independent States and Mongolia

Full details of the Foundation’s activities in the New Independent States andMongolia are given in the table on page 37. Some highlights of the workprogramme 2000 are detailed below.


? Within the context of the overall priorities identified for Tacis support in thenew Council Regulation for the New Independent States (NIS) and Mongolia,the Foundation contributed to the preparation of the Indicative Programmes2000-2003 by providing the Commission with written assessments on thepriorities and needs in vocational training in each of the countries. TheFoundation also provided contributions to the Action Programmes 2000-2001of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Ukraine andUzbekistan.

? The Foundation also lent its expertise to the Commission in preparing the launchof a number of Tacis projects. For example, in the case of the Tacis Training Fundfor unemployed and disadvantaged groups in Kyrgyzstan, the Foundationsupported the beneficiary, the Tacis Co-ordinating Unit and the Commission bypreparing tender documents and providing support to the Commission in contentmonitoring. The Foundation also supported the Service Commun RELEX inmonitoring the Managers’ Training Programme (MTP) by making contributions tothe inception and progress reports, to the content and methodology of the trainingand to the project proposal for the MTP Support Fund.

2. Support in the implementation of Tacis programmes

? The Foundation continued to manage a number of Tacis programmes on behalfof the Commission. The Tacis project “Reform of the Moldovan System ofVocational Education and Training” was successfully completed in February,and negotiations are underway to agree on a follow up project.

? The Foundation began work on the Tacis Project assisting vocational educationand training reform in Uzbekistan, starting with the development of curricula

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for six occupational profiles in three pilot professional colleges. With a view toimproving co-ordination among different actors in the region, the Foundationwas at pains to tie the project in with the Foundation Standards 2000 project, theGTZ project and the Asian Development Bank project.

? The Foundation continued to manage the Tacis DELPHI project. Particularemphasis was placed on the development of activities in the five Russianregions with progress being made in bringing education closer to its demand,and the development of the concept of social dialogue.

? The Foundation participated in the evaluation of the project “Capacity Buildingin Management Training in Belarus” within the Civil Society DevelopmentProgramme. The project is managed by the Foundation.


? The Foundation made progress in the second phase of the parallel-funded pilotproject on “Vocational Education and Training Reform in North-West Russia”,with further development of new curricula and teacher training atschool/sector level. There was also a strong focus on training regionaleducation and labour administrators in developing regional vocational trainingpolicy. The results of a mid-term assessment were discussed with all key actors,including France welcomed as a new partner in the project. Close links havebeen established between the regions participating in the pilot project, and theregions involved in the preparation of a new World Bank education project. TheFoundation and the World Bank have agreed on a work plan for co-operationduring the preparatory and the implementation phases.

? A similar project on vocational education and training reform started inSeptember in the Ukraine with the participation of Italy, France and theInternational Labour Organisation. The project concentrates on the sectors ofagriculture and transport in three Ukrainian regions. The first labour marketassessments have been made.

? Workshops on donor co-operation in education and training in Georgia,Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan led to agreement on recommendations for futuredonor interventions and mechanisms to improve co-ordination. The RussianMinistry of Education took the initiative to organise a donor meeting inMoscow. Both donors and beneficiaries confirmed the role of the NationalObservatories as focal points for donor co-ordination.

? The Foundation organised and funded an international workshop in Almaty,Kazakhstan on ‘Increasing employability by integrating entrepreneurship ineducation and training’ with participants from the EU, Central and EasternEurope and the New Independent States and Mongolia. A new project has beendeveloped and will be implemented in Northwest Russia and the Ukraine.

? The Standards 2000 project continued to help countries improve methodologiesfor developing consistent vocational training standards for all sectors. In eachparticipating country, pilot standards were elaborated and then discussed andanalysed in two Standards conferences in Tashkent and Minsk. A commonapproach was agreed and published in Volume IV of the Standards publications.

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? The Training for Enterprise Development in Kyrgyzstan project resulted in aunique source of information on enterprise development (the KyrgyzEnterprise Study). Some 200 enterprises in all sectors and regions of the countrywere interviewed. A practical Human Resource Development Guide that willhelp enterprises to plan the development of their staff is under preparation. Atraining package designed to address HRD needs was also developed andtested. The project was extended to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. TheFoundation now also plans joint action with the International LabourOrganisation.


As indicated above, the Foundation provided support to the Commission inimplementing the Managers’ Training Programme. In addition the Foundationfinalised a 1999 project aimed at improving and diversifying teaching and learningmaterials for management training in Novossibirsk, the Russian Federation. Theresults have been disseminated throughout the region. The Foundation alsocontinued to encourage the development of management training networks inRussia and Central Asia through its support to the Russian Association of BusinessEducation (RABE) and the Central Asian Management Development Foundation(CAMAN). In 2000 a new project was launched in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan andKyrgyzstan to strengthen partnerships between management training institutesand companies.


? The National Observatories in the region prepared new stocktaking reportsbased on an agreed revised table of contents. The reports will include keyindicators for 1998-99.

? The Foundation finalised the publication of its first New Independent StatesKey Indicators report (1995-97). With the contribution of the NationalObservatories it also published the report on “Transnational analysis ofvocational education and training in the New Independent States andMongolia”.

? The Phare and Tacis National Observatory networks forged closer links whenthe two groups came together in Turin for the annual meetings of the NationalObservatories in March. In November the Tacis National Observatory networkalso met separately in Chisinau.

? The Commission and the Foundation signed a Convention to provide Tacisfinancial support amounting to EUR 350,000 to the National Observatories for2000 and 2001. Contracting activity was expected to begin in early 2001.

? Alongside their routine tasks, many National Observatories were involved incountry-projects under the Staff Development Programme IV, Standards andEntrepreneurship in Education and Training project. These projects havehelped to increase the visibility and strengthen the role of the NationalObservatories in their own countries.

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6. Advisory Forum regional group

? At the annual meeting of the Advisory Forum, members of the regional groupfor New Independent States and Mongolia showed strong interest incontributing to the work of the Foundation, particularly the analytical reports.There was also strong support for greater collaboration between AdvisoryForum members, local experts and the National Observatories in order toimprove the flow of information, and to strengthen the network-function of theNational Observatories in the region.

2.4. The Mediterranean countries and territories

Full details of the Foundation’s activities in the Mediterranean region are given inthe table on page 40. Some highlights of the work programme 2000 are detailedbelow.

1. Increasing Foundation involvement in the Mediterranean region

Following the initial induction period begun in 1999, the Foundation consolidatedits knowledge of the Mediterranean region and expanded the scope of itsactivities. During the first months of 2000 key activities that had been started in1999 were completed:

? Following comments from the Commission, the Foundation concluded‘Overviews of Vocational Education and Training’ on Algeria, Lebanon, Malta,Cyprus, Jordan and Turkey1, and disseminated the results to relevantstakeholders.

? In February in Damascus the Foundation organised a seminar aimed atassisting policy makers in the design of apprenticeship schemes adapted to thesocio-economic realities in Syria. This successful event encouraged Syrianauthorities to further develop pilot apprenticeship schemes based on effectivepartnership with the private and public industrial sectors.


During the first half of the year the Head of the Foundation’s MediterraneanDepartment was seconded to the Commission in Brussels with a view toincreasing the Foundation’s understanding of the Commission’s needs andoperational constraints, so as to better define how the Foundation might supportthe Commission in implementing EU policies in the region. The secondmentallowed the Foundation to agree with the Commission on a set of proposalsdefining a number of challenging services to be delivered by the Foundation in2001 and beyond.

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1 Although Malta, Cyprus and Turkey are candidate countries, preliminary activities in 2000 wereincluded in the work programme for the Mediterranean Area.

Within the limit of its resources, the Foundation also tried to respond to demandsemerging from the region. By way of example, it replied to a request for expertsupport to the Presidential Commission for Education Reform in Algeria, whichwas responsible for proposing reforms for the education and training system as awhole. The Foundation also responded to Commission requests for expertise inidentifying and formulating projects for vocational training policy in Algeria, aswell as for technical advice in setting up the Euro-Med Observatory onemployment and training for the Mediterranean region. Further to anotherCommission request, the Foundation also produced draft guidelines for thedevelopment of sectoral adjustment programmes for vocational training.


? A joint conference co-funded by the World Bank and other local sponsors(Municipality and Province of Torino, Regione Piemonte, Italian Ministry ofEducation) on the development of secondary education and training in theMiddle East and North Africa took place from 7-10 May in Turin. Around 100delegates, including Ministers and senior officials from 21 countries from theMiddle East and North Africa region, the European Union and internationalorganisations took part. The conference examined trends in fields such asquality and relevance assessment and control, standards, curriculumdevelopment, financing and teacher training.

? The Foundation, together with the Algerian Ministry of Vocational Trainingand the Fond National de Développement de l’Apprentissage et de la Formation

Continue (FNAC), held a regional workshop on financing mechanisms forapprenticeship and continuing training from 25-27 September 2000 in Algeria.Around 200 people attended, including relevant Ministry representatives fromTunisia, Morocco and Libya, stakeholders from the public and private sectors inAlgeria and the European Union, and international donors.

? Plans for a seminar on innovative practices in vocational education and trainingstandards for the Mashreq region in Egypt were unveiled in November.However, due to the political situation in the Middle East, the seminar had to bepostponed until April 2001. The Foundation had already undertaken researchwork on existing practises in the development of vocational training standardsin each of the six countries initially involved in the exercise, and a case study onEgypt was to be presented during the seminar. Preparations went ahead thenew date.

? Further to the Foundation’s seminar on apprenticeship schemes in Damascusheld in February 2000, the Syrian Ministry of Education requested Foundationexpertise in launching a pilot project on apprenticeship schemes, due to beimplemented in 2001. The Foundation undertook preparatory work during 2000.

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? In the field of management training, work proceeded on a study onmanagement and entrepreneurship training for small and medium-sizedenterprises growth in the Mediterranean context, focusing on Egypt, Jordanand Lebanon. The conclusions of the study will be summarised for furtherdissemination in a report to be finalised in early 2001 that outlinesopportunities for improving management and entrepreneurship training inorder to stimulate the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises.

5. Advisory Forum regional group

? The Advisory Forum group for the Mediterranean region met in June in Turin.The discussion focused on Foundation activities in 1999 and the lessons learnt;the state of play of 2000 activities; and the Foundation’s Work Programme for2001.

2.5. Tempus

The Foundation continued to provide technical assistance to the Commission forthe implementation of the Tempus Programme, which began in 1990. Theprogramme entered its third phase, known as Tempus III, for the period 2000 –2006. The New Independent States, Mongolia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are currently eligible toparticipate.

The new phase involves a “top-down” and “bottom-up” approach throughensuring that all projects clearly correspond to national priorities and involve arange of actors including policy makers, the academic community and civil societyat large.

Expertise from the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe is stronglyencouraged in order to harness and promote the exchange of know-how andexperience to the Tacis countries and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatiaand the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. New co-operation activities havebeen introduced such as networking projects which aim to disseminate qualityTempus project outputs from on-going and completed projects to a largeraudience on a national and regional basis. With regard to Albania, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, inparticular, there is a strong emphasis on regional co-operation.

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Selection - Tempus Phare

Type of project Applications received

Joint European Projects & Networking Projects(deadline 1 March 2000 and 31 March only for Croatia)

100

Individual Mobility Grants(deadline 3 April 2000)

65of which 59 to EU

TOTAL 165

Joint European projects and networking projects

In response to the Tempus III call for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatiaand the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a total of 100 applications werereceived, registered, copied and despatched to National Tempus Offices and theCommission. The eligibility assessment of applications began on 20 March 2000and was finalised at the end of April. Selection meetings, under the chairmanshipof the Commission, were held in the partner countries enabling experts from theEU and from South-Eastern Europe to work together on-site. In the case of Croatia,the selection meeting was exceptionally held in Turin. During the second half of2000, the technical assessment of projects that were likely to be funded was carriedout. Subsequently, a number of recommendations were prepared for each of theseprojects.

Individual mobility grants

A total of 65 applications were processed covering mobility both to and fromAlbania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic ofMacedonia.

Selection - Tempus Tacis

Type of project Applications received

Joint European Projects and Networking Projects(deadline 1 March 2000)

263

Individual Mobility Grants(deadline 3 April 2000)

91of which 75 to EU

TOTAL 354

Joint European projects and networking projects

In response to the Tempus III call for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,Mongolia, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, a total of263 Joint European Project and Networking Project applications were received.The eligibility assessment of applications began on 20 March 2000 and wasfinalised by the end of April. Selection meetings, under the chairmanship of theCommission, were held in Tbilisi, Kiev and Torino. During the second half of 2000,the technical assessment of projects that were likely to be funded was carried out.Subsequently, a number of recommendations were prepared for each of theseprojects.

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Individual mobility grants

A total of 91 applications were processed covering mobility both to and from Tacispartner countries.

Project monitoring

The monitoring activities both in Tempus Phare and Tempus Tacis covered theusual main areas i.e. contract management, desk and field monitoring of over 550running projects.

The National Tempus Office representatives’ meeting took place in Turin on 20-21January. The second day was devoted to the field monitoring of the Tempus Phareprojects. At the request of the Commission, the Guide for Tempus Monitoringvisits 1999/2000 was prepared and a full day of training provided to the partnercountry participants.

During the first half of the year, the National Tempus Offices and the TempusCountry Desks made 135 field-monitoring visits to Tempus Phare projects. InTempus Tacis, the Tacis External Monitoring and Evaluation teams continued tocarry out field monitoring visits to Tacis Joint European Projects.

The financial assessment of the Annual and Final reports of Tempus Phare andTacis Joint European Projects for the contractual year 1998/99 began in February2000. During the year 2000, a total of 822 Phare reports and 137 Tacis reports weredue to be assessed.

At the same time, previous project reporting years continued to be finalised, forboth Joint European Projects and other Tempus co-operation activities, such asComplementary and Compact Measures projects, Joint European Networks andIndividual Mobility Grants. During the months of May and June, the pendingPhare Joint European Project reports for the contractual years 1993/94, 1994/95and 1995/96 were finalised and these contractual years of the Joint EuropeanProjects have been closed.

Follow-up of audit reports arising from the1999 audit campaign of 115 projectsproceeded in agreement with the Commission. At the same time, a new auditcampaign was launched for 88 Phare projects and 35 Tacis projects. The first draftreports were received in May.

Two extra staff members joined the financial monitoring team in April.

Tempus publications, information and events

A range of Tempus publications were produced in the first half of this year asindicated in the table below and others are still underway. These included:

? Tempus at Work information sheets.

? New Tempus at Work sheets were produced on the Tempus programme ingeneral (3 introductory sheets), for the Tempus Tacis countries (all countriesexcept Tajikistan), for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and former YugoslavRepublic of Macedonia, and for the EU countries.

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? The biennial Guide For Applicants was produced in 1999 and in 2000 anAddendum was produced in all EU languages and Russian providing furtherdetails on co-operation with Tajikistan, Belarus and Croatia.

With regard to events, the Foundation assisted the Commission in the organisationof the Tempus Tacis Project Representatives Meeting held in Brussels on 23-24March 2000. The meeting brought together over 140 project representatives fromnewly selected projects in the New Independent States and Mongolia.

The Tempus Department liased with the Romanian National Tempus Office inorder to identify and despatch publications and relevant materials for the meetingof the 4th Conference for Education Ministers held in Bucharest on 18-20 June. Inaddition ample Tempus materials were made available at the Regional TempusSeminar held in Sarajevo on 15-16 June.

Preparations for the development of a Tempus Project Information System beganin 2000 for development in 2001. The proposed system will take the form of anInternet deployable database and will encourage greater dissemination of Tempusoutputs together with increased possibilities for networking and on-linediscussion fora.

The Tempus Department of the Foundation provided full logistical support for theRegional Seminar on “Institution Building for Civic Society Development” whichtook place in Skopje, (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) on 24 to 25November 2000. Two members of the Tempus Department attended the meetingand acted as chair for one of the parallel workshops on Banking and Finance. Apresentation on “How to design a Tempus Institution Building Project“ was givenin the plenary session.

Publications linked to the Tempus Programme in 2000

Title Languages Media

Tempus at Work (TACIS)(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova,Mongolia, the Russian Federation,Turkmenistan, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan)

EN Paper andWWW

Tempus at Work(Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FormerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

EN Paper andWWW

Tempus CARDS Project Lists 1999 EN WWW

Tempus Tacis Project Lists 1999 EN WWW

Addendum to Guide for Applicants2000-01 & 2001-02

All EU languagesand RU

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Kiev Proceedings EN FR DE RU Paper andWWW

Reference Manual for Tempus TacisProject Practitioners – selection 1999

EN WWW

Tempus Annual Report 1999 EN

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CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER EU AGENCIES

The Foundation continued to work with other EU agencies on issues of commoninterest. The agency heads had their annual meeting with the Secretary General ofthe Commission in Brussels in February when the agencies were able to raiseissues such as enlargement, activity based budgeting and recasting the financialregulation, particularly as a result of the Kinnock reforms at the Commission.Moreover, all agency heads came together in Brussels in June for a meeting withthe European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets to present their draft budgetproposals for 2001.

The Foundation also continued to take part in the Common Support Serviceinvolving several of the agencies and other EU institutions to adapt and developSI2 as a budgetary and financial management tool.

The Foundation continued its co-operation with the CEDEFOP in Thessaloniki onvarious subjects of mutual interest, such as the Scenario project, the jointconference on financing of training in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(held in Mavrovo in June), and the project on social dialogue in vocationaleducation and training. A number of joint meetings took place during the year.

In the context of the pre-accession process, and having regard to the specific needsof the candidate countries, the two agencies together with the EuropeanCommission agreed to develop a strategy of close co-operation with a view tooptimising the gradual integration of the candidate countries into EU policydevelopments in the field of vocational education and training. This co-operationwill build on the respective mandates of the two agencies seeking to capitalise ontheir strengths and experience in a complementary way. To this end a commondocument is being jointly prepared by the two agencies and will be submitted totheir Governing Board meetings in early 2001.

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FINANCIAL REPORT

4.1. Funding sources

The Foundation receives an annual subvention from the European Communitybudget to cover its administrative costs as well as the cost of operations in theannual work programme (in 2000 the subvention amounted to EUR 16.2 million).

The Foundation also continued to manage funding from the European Union’sdifferent assistance programmes, transferred via conventions signed with theCommission for the management of Phare and Tacis programmes on behalf of theCommission. In 2000 the Foundation handled around EUR 27 million in Phare andTacis convention funds for vocational education and training projects (see page 43for further details). With regard to the technical assistance it provides to theCommission for Tempus, the Foundation managed around EUR 136 million inTempus Phare funds and EUR 97 million in Tempus Tacis funds (see page 45 forbreakdown).

4.2. 2000 Budget execution

Due to the tight budget framework for the year 2000 and to further unforeseencircumstances the Foundation proposed the following two transfers betweenchapters in Titles 1 and 2.

? With a view to being able to implement all of its Work Programme 2000activities the mission budget was increased by EUR 50 000 (the mission budgethad been cut by EUR 40 000 compared to 1999). This was rendered possiblethanks to savings in the area of recruitment and other staff costs.

? Due to attempted break-ins at the Foundation, it was necessary to increase thesecurity level. Furthermore, maintenance costs needed to be adapted to theactual annual cost. Finally, dissemination costs needed to be increased furtherto increased activities in the Mediterranean countries.

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The Governing Board approved the amending budget in November 2000. Thetable below shows the state of execution of the budget (in EUR) at 31 December2000:

2000budget

Committed PaidAutomaticcarry-over

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Title 1 10,274,250 10,266,234 9,951,603 258,371 10,209,974 99.37

Title 2 1,368,750 1,366,016 888,013 468,665 1,356,678 99.12

Title 3 4,557,000 4,545,567 2,607,969 1,920,480 4,528,449 99.37

TOTAL 16,200,000 16,177,817 13,447,585 2,647,516 16,095,101 99.35

4.3. Review of the European Training Foundation’s

financial and management systems

During spring 2000 the Financial Controller undertook a review of theFoundation’s financial and management systems. The report, delivered in April,highlighted a number of weaknesses in the financial management that is overlycomplex after many changes (in both systems and staff) with inadequateconsolidation.

In late 1999 and before the Financial Control review, the Foundationcommissioned an external company to undertake a Financial Systems

Implementation Study of the functioning of the Foundation’s budgetary accountingsystem, SI2, with a view to improving its use in the Foundation. The studyconcluded that the Foundation is not making full use of the system’s capabilities.

The Foundation prepared a Plan of Action as a response to the two reports,agreeing with most of the comments made. However, positive solutions to some ofthe remarks depend on SI2-related technical issues that are not managed by theFoundation. Development in these areas is dependent on the actions of the systemprovider (DG Budget) and is, therefore, beyond the Foundation’s direct influence.

As the Financial Controller noted in his comments in July, the Plan of Action wasfrom the outset overly ambitious and based on an ideal assumption of very fewrisk factors. However, this most optimistic scenario did not come true. First andforemost, the required installation of the new version of the computerised budgetmanagement system, SI2, was postponed from the early summer to the last weekof September, and entered into a test phase only in October. Therefore, theimplementation of many of the recommendations on financial systems have beenpostponed by about three or four months well into the first half of the year 2001.

However, work is ongoing in all areas of the Plan of Action, apart from thoseaspects awaiting new technical solutions from DG Budget or further progress inthe Commission’s administrative reform (e.g. Financial Regulation, FinancialControl, audits). The appointment of a User Manager for the FinancialManagement Systems has had a major impact on the implementation of the Plan ofAction.

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These developments in the Financial Management were in parallel supported by areview of the Foundation’s administrative and central services. Its main objectivewas to increase efficiency and co-ordination by appointing a Head ofAdministration and Central Services, and by redefining the roles of former centralservice departments into four new units. The roles of the units were defined bylooking at the workflows and linkages between the various services.

4.4. Common support service

2000 saw the second year of operation for the Inter-Agency SI2 Common SupportService, currently comprising eleven members2, to create and implement a sharedsupport and development structure for new computerised Budget and GeneralAccounting Systems. Early in 2000 it was decided to move the support centre fromthe Foundation to DG Budget, under the supervision of the SI2 Developmentteam, enabling a closer and more direct co-operation between support anddevelopment. In June 2000 chairmanship of the Consortium, including financialmanagement of the Consortium's funds, was handed over to the EuropeanFoundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin).

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2 European Training Foundation (Turin), European Environment Agency (Copenhagen),European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Bilbao) European Translation Centre for theBodies of the European Union (Luxemburg), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and DrugAddiction (Lisbon), Community Plant Variety Office (Angers), European Foundation for theImprovement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin), Economic and Social Committee andthe Committee of the Regions (Bruxelles), European Agency for Reconstruction (Kosovo),European Monitoring Centre On Racism And Xenophobia Commemorates (Vienna).

PERSONNEL

At the end of 2000 the Foundation employed some 110 temporary agents out of atotal 130 staff members provided for in the establishment plan. However, severalkey positions had been opened to recruitment in order to satisfy the requirementsof the medium-term perspective agreed by the Governing Board. Details of thegrading and nationality of staff can be found below.

5.1. Staffing and organisation chart

1. Temporary agents

Table A: The number of temporary agents in post by category and nationality on 31

December 2000

Nationality / Category A B C Total

Austria 2 2 1 5

Belgium 2 8 5 15

Denmark 2 - - 2

Finland 1 1 1 3

France 5 6 1 12

Germany 7 2 2 11

Greece 2 1 - 3

Ireland 1 3 - 4

Italy 8 8 5 21

Luxembourg - - 1 1

Netherlands 6 2 - 8

Portugal - - 1 1

Spain 2 1 - 3

Sweden - 1 1 2

United Kingdom 7 8 4 19

TOTAL 45 43 22 1103

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Table B: Change in staffing profile in 2000

GradeSituation on

31/12/1999Departure Recruitment

Situation on31/12/2000

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B 43 - 5 + 5 43

C 25 - 4 + 1 22

TOTAL 121 - 22 11 1104

Table C: The number and type of other staff employed in the Foundation at the end

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THE GOVERNING BOARD

The Governing Board exceptionally met three times in 2000 on 15 February, 14April and 27 November.

At the February meeting the Governing Board:

? took note of a progress report by the Director on the activities of theFoundation;

? gave its discharge to the Director for the 1998 accounts and took note of thepreliminary figures for 1999 expenditure;

? approved the overall budget for 2000 for an amount of EUR 16.2 million;

? approved the work plan for 2000, which adopted the same method of activitybased budgeting as used by the Commission;

? approved the proposal for a promotion and the proposed establishment plan;

? approved the creation of a supernumerary temporary agent post in theestablishment plan for the purposes of creating a User Manager for theCommon Support Service.

The Governing Board meeting in April centred on the increased importance ofhuman resource development following the conclusions of the Lisbon Summitthat had taken place in March, and consequently the need to define a clear role forthe Foundation in the context of the changing external relations policies.

The Board agreed the following concerning the role of the Foundation:

? The Foundation is first and foremost an observatory and a centre of excellencethat seeks out the most up-to-date knowledge of vocational trainingdevelopment in partner countries. This mission entails:

! publicising and promoting studies and good examples, notably from theEuropean Union;

! providing advice and assistance to interested countries;

! actively and systematically contributing to the European Union's vocationaltraining programmes and projects;

! administering projects undertaken by member or other states;

! ensuring that follow-up, evaluation, and research are carried out

? To this end, the Foundation must:

! be maintained;

! be fully involved with the Commission in the project cycle as regardsvocational training actions under the Phare, Tacis, MEDA, and CARDSprogrammes;

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! be involved in the work of the European Agency for Reconstruction;

! at the request of the Commission, assist the candidate countries’preparations for participation in the European Social Fund and thedevelopment of national employment strategies;

! co-operate closely with CEDEFOP and other centres of excellence on effortsto reach target audiences through publications and otherwise;

! operate under the political direction of the Commission and Member States,with sufficient freedom to act under the full authority of its director, whoreports to the Commission and the Governing Board.

The Governing Board adopted a 2001 budget proposal of EUR 16.8 million. Of thisfigure EUR 600,000 would be put in a reserve until the Foundation came up withproposals for the structure and level of its human resources for the 2001 workprogramme that put the emphasis on its role as a centre of expertise rather thanprogramme management, in accordance with the strategic orientations which theBoard has agreed upon.

At the third meeting of 27 November the Governing Board:

1. took note of a progress report by the Director on the activities of theFoundation;

2. gave its discharge to the Director for the 1999 accounts and took note of thepreliminary figures for 2000 expenditure;

3. approved the overall budget for 2001 for an amount of EUR 16.8 million;

4. approved the work plan for 2001, which adopted the same method ofactivity based budgeting as used by the Commission;

5. approved the preliminary draft budget for 2002 for an amount of EUR16.8 million;

6. approved a medium-term perspective on staff resources and budget for2002-2004.

Since April 2000 Commission services and the Foundation had been engaged in aprocess of “structured dialogue” to prepare the 2001 Work Programme andBudget. A further key objective had been to agree a development strategy in themedium-term for the Foundation’s budget and human resources. The Board’sdecision to adopt the medium-term perspective means that the Foundation nowhas a clear idea of the resources around which to plan its future as a centre ofexpertise as discussed in previous Board meetings.

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Annex 6: THE FOUNDATION’S GOVERNINGBOARD - LIST OF MEMBERS

European Commission

Acting Chairman

Mr Domenico LenarduzziDeputy Director General Education and CultureEuropean Commission

European Commission

Member

Ms Catherine DayDeputy Director General External RelationsEuropean Commission

European Commission

Member

Mr Matthias RueteDG EnlargementEuropean Commission

Austria

Member

Dr. Wolfgang LentschDirector GeneralBundesministerium für wirtschaftlicheAngelegenheiten

Austria

Alternate

Dr. Gottfried TauchnerHead of General Directorate for Technical andVocational Education and TrainingBundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft undKultur

Belgium

Member

Ms Micheline ScheysAfdelingshoofd Beleidscoordinatie DepartmentOnderwijsMinisterie van Onderwijs en Vorming van de VlaamseRegering

Belgium

Alternate

To be nominated

Denmark

Member

Mr Kaj HolbraadSenior Counsellor Central and Eastern Europe UnitMinistry of Education - Undervisningsministeriet

Denmark

Alternate

Ms Merete PedersenChief Advisor Department of Vocational Training andEducationMinistry of Education - Undervisningsministeriet

Finland

Member

Mr Timo LankinenGovernment Counsellor/Director for VocationalEducation and TrainingMinistry of Education

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Finland

Alternate

Mr Ossi V. LindqvistKuopion yliopistoUniversity of Kuopio

France

Member

Mr Jacques MaireDélégué aux Affaires européennes et internationalesMinistère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité

France

Alternate

Mr Jacques MazeranChargé de mission à la DRICMinistère de l’Education Nationale, de la Recherche etde la Technologie

Germany

Member

Mr Peter ThieleRegierungsdirektor - Übergeifende Fragen der EU;Bildungspolitische ZusammenarbeitBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung(BMBF)

Germany

Alternate

Mr Georg SeletzkyGruppenleiter BerufsbildungMinisterium für Schule und Weiterbildung,Wissenschaft und Forshung

Greece

Member

Mr Panagiotis MaistrosPresidentOrganisation for Vocational Education and Training(OEEK)

Greece

Alternate

Mr Haralambos LoukissasHead of the European and International AffairsDepartmentOrganisation for Vocational Education and Training(OEEK)

Ireland

Member

Mr Eugene FordePrincipal Officer Labour Force Development DivisionDepartment of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Ireland

Alternate

Mr Thomas MurrayAssistant Principal OfficerDepartment of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Italy

Member

Mr Gianpaolo ScaranteCoordinatore PecoMinistero degli Affari Esteri

Italy

Alternate

Prof Luciano GallinoDocente di Sociologia Dipartimento di Scienzedell’EducazioneUniversità di Torino

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Luxembourg

Member

Prof Gilbert EngelProfesseur-ingénieurMinistère de l’Education Nationale et de la FormationProfessionnelle

Luxembourg

Alternate

Ms Edith SteinAttaché économiqueChambre de Commerce du Grand-Duché deLuxembourg

Netherlands

Member

To be nominated

Netherlands

Alternate

Mr Arie IjzermanDeputy-Director of International PolicyMinisterie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen

Portugal

Member

Mr Francisco Caneira MadelinoInstituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional

Portugal

Alternate

Mr Armando Marques AleixoDirector do Departamento de Formação ProfissionalInstituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional

Spain

Member

Ms María José Muniozguren LazcanoTechnical Advisor to the Subdirector VocationalEducation and TrainingMinisterio de Educación y Cultura

Spain

Alternate

Ms Rosario Martín HerranzJefe del Servicio de Metodología y EvaluaciónInstituto Nacional de las CualificacionesMinisterio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales

Sweden

Member

Mr Dan FagerlundSenior Adviser National Agency of EducationMinistry of Education and Science

Sweden

Alternate

Mr Johan LindellMinistry of Education and Science

United Kingdom

Member

Mr Gordon PursgloveDepartment for Education and Employment -EC Education and Training division

United Kingdom

Alternate

Ms Melanie SpeightEU Co-ordinator Central and South-Eastern EuropeDepartmentDepartment for International Development

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Annex 7: EVENTS ORGANISED BYTHE FOUNDATION DURING 2000

Date Event Location Organiser

JAN

17-18 “Pre-accession Strategy in the fieldof Human Resource Development”

Turin, Italy MOCCA, ETF

20-21 NTO representatives' meeting Turin, Italy Tempus

27-28 Vocational training against socialexclusion

Turin, Italy ETF

FEB

1-3 Workshop on apprenticeshipschemes models adapted to theMEDA region

Damascus, Syria ETF

7-8 SPP regional seminar Lublin, Poland SPP

10-11 Working table on economicreconstruction, development andcooperation

Skopje, FYR Specialcoordinator of theStability Pact forSouth-EasternEurope

10-11 SPP local Seminar Bialystok, Poland SPP

14-15 SPP local Seminar Katowice, Poland SPP

15 Governing Board Turin, Italy ETF

17-18 Regional workshop on the role ofvocational education and trainingin the reconstruction process inSouth-Eastern Europe

Athens, Greece ETF, OEEK

17-20 Task Force - South-Eastern EuropeMeeting

Vienna, Austria

22-25 SPP-European Social Fund Prep.Mission

Slovenia SPP

MAR

2-3 SPP local seminar Petra Neamt,Romania

SPP

6-7 SPP local seminar Brasov, Romania SPP

6-7 SPP local seminar Szeged, Hungary SPP

9-10 SPP local seminar Debrecen,Hungary

SPP

9-12 Donors meeting for South-EasternEurope/ Enhanced Task Force

Graz, Austria

12-18 SPP Study Visit Denmark EURA-EU officeand Ringkjobingcounty

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16-18 SPP-EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUNDlocal seminar

Montana,Bulgaria

SPP

17 Addressing the training needs ofmanagers in the RussianExecutives' and Managers' TrainingProgramme

Turin, Italy ETF/Tacis

20-21 SPP-European Social Fundlocal seminar

Zogorje, Zasavjeregion, Slovenia

SPP

22 SPP local seminar Latgale, Latvia SPP

23-24 SPP local seminar Celje, Slovenia SPP

27-31 National Observatory meeting Turin, Italy ETF

29-31 Europe and Central Asia RegionalConference, Careers guidance andcounselling theory and practice forthe 21st Century

Budapest,Hungary

ETF, World Bank,HungarianMinistry ofEducation

APRIL

7-8 Regional Labour MarketIntelligence Conference

Turin, Italy ETF

9-11 Working group for human resourcedevelopment for economicreconstruction in South-EasternEurope

Turin, Italy ETF

9-17 European Social Fund study visit inDenmark

Copenhagen +Holestbro,Denmark

SPP

10-12 Barriers and ways to training byenterprises

Karlskrona,Sweden

ETF

13 Final Conference Phare vocationaleducation and training programme:dissemination

Sarajevo, BiH

14 Governing Board Brussels, Belgium ETF

17-18 SPP-European Social Fund localseminar 3

Slovenia SPP

17-18 SPP local seminar Karlovy vary,Czech Republic

SPP

MAY

7-10 MEDA conference Turin, Italy ETF, World Bank

8-9 SPP local seminar Estonia SPP

11-12 SPP local seminar Estonia SPP

18-19 SPP local seminar Klaipeda/Taurege,Lithuania

HFA, MGU

21-23 Budapest OECD, World Bank andETF conference

Budapest,Hungary

OECD, WorldBank, ETF

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22-25 Phare conference Lisbon, Portugal ETF, Instituto doemprego eformacaoprofissional

22-26 Tempus Academic Expertsconference

Turin, Italy Tempus

25-26 SPP local seminar Slovak Republic SPP

25-27 Dubrovnik ETF IWL Balkanworkshop

Dubrovnik ETF

29-30 SPP local seminar N.W. region Czech Republic SPP

JUNE

1-2 SPP local seminar Ostrava Mostar, Bosniaand Herzegovina

NationalObservatory

5-14 SPP training seminar Turin, Italy ITC-ILO, Turinand Brussles

7-9 SPP ESF actors, OECD, Grazprocess and other internationalactors, key actors in education

Bled, Slovenia SPP

9-13 NTI training seminar Turin

14-16 NTI training seminar Brussels,Belgium/Maastrict,Netherlands

15-16 SPP training seminar Brussels, Belgium ITC-ILO, Turinand Brussels

15-16 SPP local seminar Marijanpole Lithuania SPP

15-17 Advisory Forum meeting Turin, Italy ETF

19-20 Youth unemployment in SEE Bulgaria NationalObservatory

19-20 SPP local seminar Utena, Lithuania SPP

23-24 SPP local seminar Poiana Brasov,Romania

SPP

JULY

8-7 Brainstorming meeting/Grazprocess

Turin, Italy

28 Preparatory meeting for Tiranaseminar

Turin, Italy ETF

AUG

4 Employer's initiative project:project review meeting (mid-termreport) with contractor (IBF) andprogramme steering committee.

Turin, Italy

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SEPT

4-9 Committee of the Regions & EIPAseminar on Euro training projectwith participation of NTI

Prague,Czech Republic

11 Preparatory meeting fo socialinclusion micro-projects in Croatiaand Montenegro

Turin, Italy ETF

23-24 Phare MOCCA programme - finalconference

Portoroz, Slovenia

24-27 La formation, outil de performanceéconomique: quelles politiques definancement de la formationcontinue et de l'apprenissage?

Alger, Algeria ETF, Ministry ofEducation, FNAC

OCT

16 ETF-ASFOR-RABE meeting Turin, Italy ETF, Tacis

16-17 Vocational education and training2000 final conference

Skopje, FormerYugoslavRepublic ofMacedonia

Phare

26-27 Final SPP conference Brussels, Belgium SPP

NOV

9-10 Regional co-operation to integratehuman resource development inthe field of small andmedium-sized enterprises supportin South-Eastern Europe

Tirana, Albania ETF

12-13 Regional company skills survey Turin, Italy ETF

15-18 Training for Nobs Turin, Italy ETF

20-25 Vocational education and trainingprogramme final conference

Vilnius, Lithuania

22 Experience from ETF-managedPhare vocational education andtraining Reform programmes 94-98and conclusions for futurevocational education and traininginterventions

Turin, Italy ETF

27 Governing Board Turin, Italy ETF

DEC

4-5 Final NTI seminar Prague,Czech Republic

8-9 Integration of work and learning(IWL) meeting

Torino, Italy ETF

18 Meeting between CEDEFOP andETF

Torino, Italy ETF

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Annex 8: PUBLICATIONS LIST

General Publications

European Training Foundation Annual report 1999(DA/DE/EN/ES/FI/FR/GR/IT/NL/PT/SV)

Report on the Foundation’s activities and achievements in 1999

European Training Foundation Work programme 2000 (EN/FR/DE/IT/ES/RU)

The Work Programme 2000 provides full details of the Foundation's future actions aswell as priorities for the next three years as far as can be deciphered at present andreflects the evolutionary process that is currently influencing the scope and content ofthe Foundation's work.

Information & Statistics on vocational education and training systems

Tacis transnational report(EN/RU)

The report, the first of its kind for the Tacis countries, was compiled by the EuropeanTraining Foundation with the assistance of its network of National Observatories andits data covers the period between 1995 and 1997. The report highlights key trendsand statistics concerning vocational education and training within this region andmakes the case for supporting the reform of vocational education and training. Thereport complements the Foundation's publications Tacis Key Indicators 2000.

National Observatory reports for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe(EN)

A series of reports produced by the National Observatories of the Central and EasternEuropean candidate countries. The reports are written according to a structureestablished by the European Training Foundation and contain detailed informationon the vocational education and training systems in the countries concerned.

Key Indicators fact sheet – Central and Eastern Europe(EN)

A series of factsheets providing key information on vocational education and trainingin Central and Eastern Europe

Phare Key Indicators 2000(EN)

A series of factsheets providing key information on vocational education and trainingin Central and Eastern Europe

Tacis Key Indicators 2000(EN)

The report, the first of its kind for the Tacis countries, was compiled by the EuropeanTraining Foundation with the assistance of its network of National Observatories andits data covers the period between 1995 and 1997. The report highlights key trendsand statistics concerning vocational education and training within this region.

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Vocational education and training and labour market

Third in the series of standards manuals(EN/RU)

This is the third manual in a series published by the European Training Foundationdevoted to the issue of standards. The new manual considers three basis questions inthe approach to ensuring relevancy.

. How should changes and trends within the labour market be evaluated?

. How should vocational education and training systems respond to these changingneeds?

. How can we ensure that attempts to make standards relevant have been effective?

The central message of the report is that vocational education and training has tobecome more broadly based and more flexible in order to ensure that it reacts quicklyand flexibly to labour market needs and to the needs of business.

An international manual of standards development(EN)

The International Manual for Linking Vocational Education and Training Standardsand Employment Requirements promotes the methodology (model) for theestablishment of a more relevant, transparent and user-friendly vocational standardthat is clear and accessible to employers, employees, trainers, students and parentsand that can be recognised internationally.

Background studies for Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and the Slovak Republic(EN)

This second group of five studies (the first were published in 1999), compiled by theEuropean Training Foundation with support from the European Commission,provide some of the most up to date information and analysis on the current state oflabour markets in the EU candidate countries. They also provide a comprehensiveassessment as to the readiness of the current candidate countries to participate in theEU single market in the fields of employment and training.

Conference summary of ‘Knowledge and skills for development: The role ofsecondary education and training in the Middle East and North Africa’(EN/FR)

Representatives from nineteen countries and territories from the Middle East andNorth African region that work in the field of vocational education and traininggathered in Turin May 2000 to discuss the important challenges facing the region withregard to secondary education and training.

The overall aim of the conference was to provide public administrators, managers andtrainers in this region with examples of good practice and projects in the field ofvocational education and training and to promote greater intra-regional dialogue. Thereport provides full details of the deliberations.

Labour market information in the context of European Social Fund programming(EN)

Report providing working examples of European Social Fund programmes thatoperate within the regional context and that demonstrate the process of institutionaland partnership development. The report also highlights the essential role of labourmarket information within the process.

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Management training

Entrepreneurial training for the growth of small and medium sized enterprises(EN)

The report has two main objectives:

. To provide concrete guidance, practical models and solutions to entrepreneurialtraining providers, agencies and other organisations offering assistance to smalland medium-sized enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe;

. To provide a useful tool for policy makers at national, regional and local levels aswell as for all those organisations directly and indirectly involved in small andmedium-size enterprise development.

Assessing management training needs in Central and Eastern Europe(EN)

A series of reports prepared as an integral part of an international research projectlooking at the current training situation in several countries, the chain of managementbusiness challenges and strategic responses, current management capabilities andrelated training needs/processes. The initial project research was carried out in fivecountries, in selected manufacturing and service sector enterprises, resulting in:

. Country reports for Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russian Federation(Moscow and Ural region)

. A ‘Cross-country’ comparative analysis report.

The project was implemented by the Central and East European ManagementDevelopment Association (CEEMAN), in co-operation with the European TrainingFoundation.

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The European Training Foundation - Annual report 2000

Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities

2001 - 60 pp. - 21.0 x 29.7 cm

ISBN 92-9157-279-9

Documents

Annual report - ETF - European Training FoundationFile/Annualrep-2000_EN.pdf · 2005-06-02 · Common support service ... He is supported by some 120 members of staff, who together