Relevance of ALO project to EU Agenda for Adult Leaning

Martina Ní CheallaighDG Employment, Social Affairsand Inclusion

Governance

Supply and take up

Flexibility and access

Quality

European Agenda for Adult Learning

Priorities2015-20

ET2020 Policy FrameworkMaking LLL a reality for all; increasing participation(15%) especially low qualified, raising awareness, motivating, improving systems and knowledge base

Upskilling Pathways:New Opps for Adults

Labour force

survey 2017Participation rate in EU

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EU benchmark of 15%

Good news!

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• participation of adult

Europeans in learning is

increasing

• 2007 – 56.8%

• 2016 – 73.4%

• increase in all age groups

• lowest participation rate

is registered among the

oldest citizens

AES:Participation rate in EU (all types of learning)

More non-formal learning

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40.3

45.1

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formaleducationand training

non-formaleducationand training

formal andnon-formaleducationand training

• general participation rate

in formal and non-formal

learning is constantly

increasing

• rate of formal learning is

slightly decreasing

• rate of non-formal

learning has significantly

increased

• 20 out of 28 EU countries

registered an increase in

participation rate

AES:Participation rate in EU (formal and non-formal)

Adults like informal learning!

AES:Participation rate in EU

• 60.5% of adult Europeans

took part in informal

learning in 2016

• there is a significant

increase (by 24.4%) in

participation rate among

low-qualified adults

• most popular are:• learning by using computers,

• learning from family

members, friends,

colleagues

• learning by using printed

material

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ISCED 5-8

ISCED 3-4

ISCED 0-2

2016 2007

Hidden potential?

AES:Participation rate in EU

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informal learning formal and non-formal learning

We need more motivation!

AES: Reasons for not

participating

• of all adult Europeans

who didn’t participate in

education and training,

almost 81% don’t

want to participate

(2016)

• rate is stable since last

survey

Wanted to participated in

E&T but encountered

difficulties (personal reasons)

7%

Wanted to participated in

E&T but encountered

difficulties (not personal reasons)

12%

Did not want to participate in E&T

81%

Awareness and motivation!

AES:Obstacles to participation

• no need for (further)

education and training -

main obstacle for most adult

Europeans in all MSs except

Greece

• no access to computer or

internet is an obstacle for

only 3.3% of Europeans

• obstacles quite stable over

the years

Training - yes, but …… for limited number of employees!

CVTS:Participation

• In 2015, 72.2% of

companies provided CVT

but only for 40.8% of

employees

• number of companies in

Europe providing CVT is

constantly growing

• number of European

employees participating in

CVT is also growing but

more slowly than number

of companies that provide

CVT

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Companies providing CVT

Employees taking part in CVT