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‘Education and Training 2010’

At its meeting in Lisbon in March 2000, the European Council (the Heads of State or Government of the EU countries) acknowledged that the European Union was confronted with fundamental changes resulting from globalisation and the knowledge-driven economy, and agreed a strategic target for 2010:

To become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.

These changes required not only a radical transformation of the European economy, but also a challenging programme for the modernisation of social welfare and education systems. The European Council called on the Education Council and the European Commission to undertake a general reflection on the concrete objectives of education systems, focusing on common concerns while respecting national diversity.

This provided the initial impetus and the political means for the preparation and adoption of the work programme on the future objectives of education and training systems on 14 February 2002.

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On 14 February 2002 the ministers in charge of education and training in EU countries and the European Commission set themselves the following goals to be achieved by 2010 ‘for the benefit of citizens and the European Union as a whole’:

• the highest quality will be achieved in education and training and Europe will be recognised as a worldwide reference for the quality and relevance of its education and training systems and institutions;

• education and training systems in Europe will be compatible enough to allow citizens to move between them and take advantage of their diversity;

• holders of qualifications, knowledge and skills acquired anywhere in the EU will be able to get them effectively validated throughout the Union for the purpose of career and further learning;

• Europeans, at all ages, will have access to lifelong learning;

• Europe will be open to cooperation for mutual benefits with all other regions and should be the most-favoured destination of students, scholars and researchers from other world regions.

These are ambitious, but realistic goals. They mark the beginning of a new phase in the development of education and training in the European Union context, based on diverse systems sharing common goals.

The work programme is organised around the three strategic objectives that were identified in the report on the future concrete objectives of education and training systems. In the detailed work programme these three strategic objectives are broken down into 13 objectives that need to be addressed to achieve them and cover the wide spectrum of areas related to education and training. For each of these 13 objectives, the pages that follow set out the key issues that need to be addressed and an indicative list of the main instruments that will be used to foster and monitor progress.

‘Education & Training 2010’ - three strategic objectives

Strategic objective 1: Improving the quality and effectiveness of education and training systems in the EU.

 1.1.: Improving education and training for teachers and trainers
 1.2.: Developing skills for the knowledge society
 1.3.: Ensuring access to ICT for everyone
 1.4.: Increasing recruitment to scientific and technical studies
 1.5.: Making the best use of resources

Strategic objective 2: Facilitating the access of all to education and training systems

 2.1.: Creating an open learning environment
 2.2.: Making learning more attractive
 2.3.: Supporting active citizenship, equal opportunities and social cohesion

Strategic objective 3: Opening up education and training systems to the wider world.

 3.1.: Strengthening the links with work and research and society at large
 3.2.: Developing the spirit of enterprise
 3.3.: Improving foreign language learning
 3.4.: Increasing mobility and exchange
 3.5.: Strengthening European cooperation

The objectives are the following:

Strategic objective 1: Improving the quality and effectiveness of education and training systems in the EU, in the light of the new requirements of the knowledge society and the changing patterns of teaching and lerning.

The first strategic objective includes five objectives:

Objective 1.1.: Improving education and training for teachers and trainers
• identifying the skills that teachers and trainers should have, given their changing roles in a knowledge society;
• providing the conditions which adequately support teachers and trainers as they respond to the challenges of the knowledge society, including through initial and in-service training in the perspective of lifelong learning;
• securing a sufficient level of entry to the teaching profession, across all subjects and levels, as well as providing for the long-term needs of the profession by making teaching and training more attractive;
• attracting recruits to teaching and training who have professional experience in other fields.

Objective 1.2.: Developing skills for the knowledge society
• identifying new basic skills, and how these skills together with the traditional basic skills can be better integrated in the curricula, learned and maintained through life;
• making attainment of basic skills genuinely available to everyone, including those less advantaged, those with special needs, school drop-outs and to adult learners;
• promoting official validation of basic skills, in order to facilitate ongoing education and training and employability.

Objective 1.3.: Ensuring access to ICT for everyone
• providing adequate equipment and educational software so that ICT and e-learning can be applied effectively in teaching and training practices;
• encouraging the best use of innovative teaching and learning techniques based on ICT.

Objective 1.4.: Increasing recruitment to scientific and technical studies
• increasing the interest in mathematics, science and technology from an early age;
• motivating more young people to choose studies and careers in the fields of mathematics, science and technology in particular research careers and scientific disciplines where there are shortages of qualified personnel, in a short and medium term perspective, in particular through the design of strategies for educational and vocational guidance and counselling;
• improving gender balance among people learning mathematics, science and technology;
• securing a sufficient numbers of qualified teachers in mathematics and scientific and technical subjects.

Objective 1.5.: Making the best use of resources
• increasing investment in human resources while ensuring an equitable and effective distribution of available means in order to facilitate general access to and enhance the quality of education and training;
• supporting the development of compatible quality assurance systems respecting diversity across Europe;
• developing the potential of public-private partnerships.

Strategic objective 2: Facilitating the access of all to education and training systems, in the light of the guiding principle of lifelong learning, fostering employability and career development as well as active citizenship,
equal opportunities and social cohesion:

The second srtategic objective includes three objectives:

Objective 2.1.: Creating an open learning environment
• broadening access to lifelong learning by providing information, advice and guidance, on the full range of learning opportunities available;
• delivering education and training so that adults can effectively participate and combine their participation in learning with other responsibilities and activities;
• ensuring that learning is accessible for all, in order to better respond to the challenges of the knowledge society;
• promoting flexible learning paths for all;
• promoting networks of education and training institutions at various levels in the context of lifelong learning

Objective 2.2.: Making learning more attractive
• encouraging young people to remain in education or training after the end of compulsory education;
and motivating and enabling adults to participate in learning through later life;
• developing ways of officially validating non-formal learning experiences.
• finding ways of making learning more attractive, both within the formal education and training systems and outside them;
• fostering a culture of learning for all and raising the awareness of potential learners of the social and economic benefits of learning

Objective 2.3.: Supporting active citizenship, equal opportunities and social cohesion
• ensuring that the learning of democratic values and democratic participation by all school partners is effectively promoted in order to prepare people for active citizenship;
• integrating fully equal opportunity considerations in the objectives and functioning of education and training;
• ensuring fair access to acquisition of skills for the less privileged or those currently less well served and motivating them to participate in learning.

Strategic objective 3: Opening up education and training systems to the wider world, in the light of the fundamental need to foster relevance to work and society and to meet the challenges resulting from globalisation:

The third strategic objective includes five objectives:

Objective 3.1.: Strengthening the links with work and research and society at large
• promoting close cooperation between education and training systems and society at large;
• establishing partnerships between all types of education and training institutions, firms and research facilities for their mutual benefit;
• promoting the involvement of relevant stakeholders in the development of training, including initial training and learning at the workplace.
Active citizenship, equal opportunities and social cohesion
Objective 3.2.: Developing the spirit of enterprise
• promoting the sense of initiative and creativity throughout the education and training system in order to develop the spirit of enterprise (‘entrepreneurship’);
• facilitating the acquisition of skills needed to set up and run a business.

Objective 3.3.: Improving foreign language learning
• encouraging everyone to learn two, or where appropriate, more languages in addition to their mother tongues, and increasing awareness of the importance of foreign language learning at all ages;
• encouraging schools and training institutions in using efficient teaching and training methods and motivating continuation of language learning at a later stage of life.

Objective 3.4.: Increasing mobility and exchange
• providing the widest access to mobility to individuals and to education and training organisations, including those serving a less privileged public and reducing the remaining obstacles to mobility;
• monitoring the volume, directions, participation rates as well as qualitative aspects of mobility flows across Europe;
• facilitating validation and recognition of competencies acquired during mobility;
• promoting the presence and recognition of European education and training in the world as well as
their attractiveness to students, academics and researchers from other world regions.

Objective 3.5.: Strengthening European cooperation
• enhancing the effectiveness and timeliness of recognition processes for the purpose of further study, training and employment throughout Europe;
• promoting cooperation between responsible organisations and authorities in view of more compatibility in quality assurance and accreditation;
• promoting transparency of information on education and training opportunities and structures in view of the creation of an open European area for education;
• promotion of the European dimension of teaching and training.

The time horizon for the whole work programme is the decade until 2010. It is a realistic timeframe, because reforms in education tend to produce their effect
in the medium term.