Non-formal and informal adult learning in the
2020 EU Strategy.
Grundtvig contact seminar
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Bratislava, Slovak Republic
December 9 – 12, 2010
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AINova, www.ainova.sk
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Content
Characteristics of types of education
 Europe 2020 Strategy
 The role of education in the New Europe 2020
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for
Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
 Education and Training 2020 (2009)
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Formal education
Is the hierarchically structured, chronologically graded
'education system', running from primary school through
the university and including, in addition to general
academic studies, a variety of specialised programmes
and institutions for full-time technical and professional
training.
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Non-formal education
Is any organised educational activity outside the
established formal system - whether operating
separately or as an important feature of some broader
activity - that is intended to serve identifiable learning
clientele and learning objectives.
“It is never too late to learn”
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Informal education
Is the truly lifelong process whereby every individual
acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from
daily experience and the educative influences and
resources in his or her environment - from family and
neighbours, from work and play, from the market place,
the library and the mass media.
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Europe 2020 Strategy
In June 2010, the European Council formally adopted
the new economic strategy of the European Union:
“Europe 2020 - A European strategy for smart,
sustainable and inclusive growth. “
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Europe 2020 - a new economic strategy
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The strategy builds on what has been achieved and the
lessons learned. The first priority must be to hasten the exit
from the crisis, but the strategy must also provide the
building blocks for growth that will be sustainable in the
future.
Europe is recognised the world over for its high quality of life,
underpinned by a unique social model. The strategy should
ensure that these benefits are sustained and even further
enhanced, while employment, productivity and social
cohesion are optimised.
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Europe 2020 Strategy - priorities
Smart growth:
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developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation.
Sustainable growth:
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promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more
competitive economy.
Inclusive growth:
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fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and
territorial cohesion.
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Europe 2020 Strategy
These three mutually reinforcing priorities should help the EU
and the Member States deliver high levels of employment,
productivity and social cohesion.
The Union has set five ambitious objectives - on employment,
innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy - to
be reached by 2020.
Each Member State will adopt its own national targets in each
of these areas. Concrete actions at EU and national levels will
support the strategy.
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EU Wide targets
1. Employment - 75% of the 20-64-year-olds to be employed
2. R&D / innovation - 3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in
R&D/innovation
3. Climate change / energy
– greenhouse gas emissions 20% lower than 1990
– 20% of energy from renewables
– 20% increase in energy efficiency
4. Education
– reducing school drop-out rates below 10%
– at least 40% of 30-34–year-olds completing third level
education
5. Poverty / social exclusion
– at least 20 million fewer people in or at risk of poverty and
social exclusion
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How will the EU boost the progress?
Through 7 flagship initiatives:
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“Innovation Union”
“Youth on the move”
“A digital agenda for Europe”
“Resource efficient Europe”
“An industrial policy for the globalisation era”
“An industrial agenda for new skills and jobs”
“European platform against poverty”
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National targets
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To ensure each EU country implements the Europe 2020
Strategy in a way that fits its particular situation, the 5 EUlevel targets are being translated into national targets, to
reflect the level of ambition, each is able to make to the
wider EU effort.
This will happen in a dialogue with the Commission in
order to check consistency with the EU headline targets.
Each country will then set its final national targets in its
national reform programme at the end of 2010.
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Guidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy.
On their basis the member states will draw up National Reform
Programme.
Part II of the Europe 2020 Integrated Guidelines relates to
employment issues.
 Guideline 7: Increasing labour market participation and reducing
structural unemployment
 Guideline 8: Developing a skilled workforce responding to labour
market needs, promoting job quality and lifelong learning
 Guideline 9: Improving the performance of education and training
systems at all levels and increasing participation in tertiary
education
 Guideline 10: Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty
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Guidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy
Based on the Guideline 8: Developing a skilled workforce
responding to labour market needs, promoting job quality
and lifelong learning, Member states should focus on:
 promoting productivity and employability through an
adequate supply of skills
 complementing education and vocational training with
effective incentives for lifelong learning
 developing systems for recognising acquired competences
 promoting the acquisition of transversal competences and
creativity
 aiming their efforts particularly at supporting those with low
skills and increasing the employability of older workers
 enhancing the training, skills and experience of highly
skilled workers, including researchers
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Guidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy
in cooperation with social partners and business
 improving access to training, strengthening career guidance
combined with systematic information on new job openings
and opportunities
 promoting entrepreneurship and enhanced anticipation of
skill needs through joint financial contributions from
governments, individuals and employers
 promoting investment in human resource development, upskilling and participation in lifelong learning schemes
 enacting schemes to help recent graduates find initial
employment or further education and training opportunities,
including apprenticeships
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The role of education in the New Europe 2020
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for
Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
Education is an essential tool for achieving the objectives
of Europe 2020.
Two of the strategy’s three priorities, smart growth, based
on knowledge and innovation, and an inclusive highemployment society,
as well as three of its seven flagship initiatives (Innovation
Union, Youth on the Move, and An Agenda for New
Skills and Jobs) depend critically on education and
training.
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The role of education in the New Europe 2020
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for
Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
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Moving out of the crisis is the immediate challenge
Yet innovation is a widely recognised necessity. Leading companies
and public and private bodies have long spoken for innovation to be
given all the importance it deserves.
Europe 2020, the European Union’s new strategy for growth and
social cohesion, centres on innovation and creativity
The interdependence between education, research and innovation –
often referred to as the knowledge triangle – is a key element of
European innovation policy.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) – which
is just now becoming fully operational – was a first step in
establishing the best conditions for developing and strengthening
these relationships.
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The role of education in the New Europe 2020
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for
Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
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Youth on the Move is set to build on successful programmes like
Erasmus to enhance the effectiveness and international
attractiveness of Europe’s higher-education system
The Agenda for New Skills and Jobs means empowering people to
adapt to new conditions through the acquisition of new skills. It will
give an impetus to the strategic framework that we have put in place
for European co-operation in education and training over the coming
decade.
Advanced innovation systems in Europe are characterised by rich
lifelong learning opportunities
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The role of education in the New Europe 2020
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for
Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
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Digital literacy has become an essential key competence, and its
uneven distribution – the so-called digital divide – is fast becoming
a 21st-century form of social exclusion.
A. Vassiliou plans to mobilise another important innovation tool:
culture, including the cultural and creative industries sector, which
is a strong European asset, both on its own terms and as a factor
in broader economic activity
Creative partnerships are increasingly used by business as well as
by education to unlock creative talent and innovation capacities.
Creativity and imaginative thinking are at the source of innovation
in all sectors.
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EU education and training policy 2020
has been given added impetus since the adoption of the
- Lisbon Strategy 2000
- Education and Training 2010 Programme (2002)
- Education and Training 2020 (2009)
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EU education and training policy 2020
“Education and Training 2020” (ET 2020) is a new
strategic framework for European cooperation in
education and training that builds on its predecessor,
the “Education and Training 2010” (ET 2010) work
programme.
It provides common strategic objectives for Member
States, including a set of principles for achieving these
objectives, as well as common working methods with
priority areas for each periodic work cycle.
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The new strategic vision and framework 'ET
2020' addresses four strategic objectives:
Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality;
2. Improving the quality and efficiency of education and
training;
3. Promoting equality, social cohesion and active
citizenship;
4. Enhancing creativity and innovation, including
entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and
training.
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Strategic objective 1:
Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality
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To update and develop skills in line with changing economic and social circumstances
To implement coherent and comprehensive lifelong learning strategies
To develop national qualifications frameworks based on relevant learning outcomes
To speak for greater openness towards non-formal and informal learning and making
periods of learning abroad
To increase transparency and recognition of learning outcomes
To promote adult learning, to increase the quality of guidance systems, and to make
learning more attractive in general
To develop new forms of learning and the use of new teaching and learning
technologies
To expand mobility for learners, teachers and teacher trainers
To achieve this will require renewed efforts on the part of all concerned, for instance
with regard to securing adequate funding.
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Strategic objective 2:
Improving the quality and efficiency of education and
training
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To raise the level of basic skills such as literacy and numeracy,
To make mathematics, science and technology more attractive
To strengthen linguistic competences
To ensure high quality teaching
To provide adequate initial teacher education, continuous professional
development for teachers and trainers, and to make teaching an attractive
career-choice
To improve the governance and leadership of education and training institution
To develop effective quality assurance systems.
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Strategic objective 3:
Promoting equity, social cohesion and active
citizenship
To enable all citizens, irrespective of their personal, social or economic
circumstances, to acquire, update and develop over a lifetime both job-specific
skills and the key competences needed for their employability and to support
further learning, active citizenship and intercultural dialogue
To promote intercultural competences, democratic values and respect for
fundamental rights and the environment, as well as to combat all forms of
discrimination, equipping all young people to interact positively with their peers
from diverse backgrounds.
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Strategic objective 4: Enhancing creativity and
innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels
of education and training
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Creativity and innovation are crucial to enterprise development and to
Europe's ability to compete internationally
A first challenge is to promote the acquisition by all citizens of transversal key
competences such as digital competence, learning to learn, a sense of
initiative and entrepreneurship, and cultural awareness
A second challenge is to ensure a fully functioning knowledge triangle of
education-research-innovation.
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OPEN METHOD OF COORDINATION / OMC
The OMC is a relatively new and intergovernmental means of governance
in the European Union, based on the voluntary cooperation of its
member states.
The OMC should draw on:
- the four strategic objectives for European cooperation outlined above,
- common reference tools and approaches,
- peer learning and the exchange of good practice, including the
dissemination of outcomes,
- periodic monitoring and reporting,
- evidence and data from all relevant European agencies, European
networks, and international organisations,
- making full use of the opportunities available under Community
programmes,
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Lifelong Learning Prgramme post-2013
Main problems identified
1/ implementation of LLP principles not even across EU
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2/ mobility actions not reaching enough young people
3/ level and efficiency not responding to the needs
4/ problems related to demographic changes
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Lifelong Learning Prgramme post-2013
To ensure reaching objectives – operational objectives
are set up:
1/ systems to reach critical mass of target groups
2/ ensure the recognition of reached qualification
3/ identify possibilities of further (co)funding
4/ simplify the management and administrative
processes of the programme
5/ simplify the structure of the programme
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Sources of information
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www.ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm
http://www.nuffic.nl/international-organizations/international-educationmonitor/nuffic-blog/europe-2020-the-importance-of-higher-education-foreurope2019s-smart-sustainable-and-inclusive-economy-1
http://www.innovationeu.org/news/innovation-eu-vol2-1/0189-the-role-ofeducation-in-the-new-europe-2020.html
http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2009:119:0002:0010:en
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http://www.learningteacher.eu/news/2009/05/strategic-frameworkeuropean-cooperation-education-and-training-et-2020
http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:308:0046:0051:E
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