Skills Acquisition through Mobility

• Study – Assessing the impact of ongoing reforms in education and training on adult learning (2009)
• Study on Key competences for adult learning professionals (2009), including a Competence Profile for adult learning professionals; discussion of the profile at four regional meetings
• European Inventory of good outreach practices, with case studies; accompanying analytical report, Enabling the low skilled to take their qualifications "one step up", 2010
• Cedefop publication on older workers (2010)
• Study on European Terminology in Adult Learning for a common language and common understanding and monitoring of the sector, 2010
   

• European Guidelines on validation of non-formal and informal learning (2009)
• Joint Interim Report 2010 includes a section reporting on the development of lifelong learning strategies and key competences for adults
• Council conclusions on social inclusion, May 2010; Basic skills provision for adults: Policy and practice guidelines (2010)
• European Commission, An Agenda for new skills and jobs: A European contribution towards full employment, 2010
• European Commission, New Skills for New Jobs, Policy initiatives in the field of education: Short overview of the current sitution in Europe, November 2010
   

In response to the “New Skills for New Jobs Initiative”  the European Commission funded a monitoring system to work as an “early warning tool” under the “Monitoring Labour".

Two publications are publishing on a quarterly basis, the European Job Mobility Bulletin (EJMB) - the European Vacancy Monitor (EVM).  The EVM is more comprehensive and targeted at a broader audience. It seeks to contribute to policy development and the functioning of labour markets. It provides an up-to-date, dynamic picture of developments in the demand for labour, using a wide range of sources to produce the relevant data on job vacancies, job-finders and hiring will also provide,  insight into areas with recruitment difficulties and skills shortages.

The European Job Mobility Bulletin (EJMB)  is an analysis of the data on the EURES Job Mobility portal.

• CEDEFOP:  VET in Europe - Country reports. Compare and learn more about the European national vocational education and training systems VET in Europe - Country reports are a product of the VET in Europe project and review vocational education and training systems in Member States, Iceland and Norway. They are prepared and updated by ReferNet, according to a common structure provided by Cedefop.
• EURYDICE. The Eurydice Network provides information on and analyses of European education systems and policies. As from 2011 it consists of 37 national units based in all 33 countries participating in the EU's Lifelong Learning programme (EU Member States, EFTA countries, Croatia and Turkey). It is co-ordinated and managed by the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in Brussels, which drafts its studies and provides a range of online resources.
• Better Matching Skills and Jobs
• Restructuring forum - Sectors' New Skills for New Jobs
• European CommissionEmployment, Social Affairs and Equal OpportunitiesWhat's new
• Cedefop

Since the launch of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) in 2007, hundreds of good projects have been funded in the field of school, higher or adult education and in vocational training. Financed by the European Commission, networks of national programme agencies for the LLP organise thematic monitoring and networking activities to better exploit the results of these projects and draw lessons and good practices from these experiences.

Subject areas currently being explored include:

•Further training of teachers and training staff: the "City-M" project
•Upgrading and matching skills to labour market needs: the "New Skills Network"
•Working with under-represented and disadvantaged groups: the "INCLUSION" project
•Quality assurance in vocational education and training and in adult education: the "QALLL" project
•Working together to understand and implement ECVET : "NetECVET"

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