First European Education Summit
The first-ever European Education Summit with the theme of "Laying the foundations of the European Education Area: for an innovative, inclusive and values based education" takes place in Brussels today.
The Summit brings together around 500 participants to discuss the
importance of the European Education Area 2025, of basic skills and inclusive
education and the skills that will be needed in the decades to come. The
Summit's programme includes over twenty sessions with topics as varied as the
importance of values-based education, the hidden charm of STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Maths) and the role children play in helping to
transform societies. Around eighty speakers with a wide range of expertise will
intervene.
The Commission presented a Communication on Strengthening European Identity
through Education and Culture to the EU Leaders' meeting of 17 November 2017 in
Gothenburg. In this Communication, the Commission set out its vision for the
creation of a European Education Area by 2025 to harness the full potential of
education as a driver for job creation, economic growth, social fairness as
well as a means to experience European identity in all its diversity. Key aims
of the European Education Area are to make mobility a reality for all, create a
network of European Universities and promote lifelong learning. As a follow-up
to Gothenburg, on 17 January, the Commission presented its first initiatives to
boost key competences and digital skills among EU citizens, and promote common
values as well as the European dimension of education.
European Educatio
n Summit website
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