New ETF project supports lifelong learning in Eastern Europe
Thematic Area: Lifelong Learning
Year/Date: 25/02/2011
We live in a fast-changing world. What you learn at the age of eighteen may be of little use when you are thirty. That’s why continuous building of skills and knowledge throughout one’s life becomes so important. The ETF has started today a new project that aims at improving opportunities for lifelong learning in Eastern Europe.
‘Possibility of learning, upgrading skills throughout one’s life is important from the perspective of labour market, for social reasons, but also for personal development,’ says Siria Taurelli, ETF expert who will lead the new project entitled Lifelong Learning in Eastern Europe.
Ms Taurelli said the Torino Process i.e., a policy review done by ETF in all countries of the region, provided useful data on the situation and the challenges in education, training and employment. Based on these findings, the new initiative aims to:
- improve training, retraining and skill upgrading of workers and unemployed;
- broaden possibilities of non-academic education after the secondary school;
- make qualification that people obtain in education and training more transparent.
ETF project will bring together ministries of education and labour, trade unions, employers’ organisations, employment agencies and experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. It will serve as a platform to build a common understanding of policy and to formulate useful policy options.
‘We think that these seven countries can learn from each other, so the project is not about the ETF offering solutions’, says Ms Taurelli. ‘We want to identify good practices that already exist in the region, but which are often not well known even within one country. And then we want to help our partners to share these practices and learn together.’
The project will last three years. The ETF will design methods and tools for mutual learning activities, and will provide necessary expertise. The ETF will organise network meetings and it will support visits, where partners will learn from each other.
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Listen to the interview with Siria Taurelli, ETF project leader for Lifelong Learning in Eastern Europe
Topics
Lifelong learning
Put simply, lifelong learning means that people can – and should have the opportunity to – learn throughout their lives.
Equality in education
Across the world, certain groups of people are still hard pressed to get the most out of their education and training system.
Education and business
Partnership between the worlds of work and education is a process that is set to become an integral part of how we go about developing education.
Employment
“Employment”: a better guidance contributes to broader economic and social well-being by easing the functioning of labour markets.
Skills recognition
Making qualifications transparent and easily readable, even across international frontiers, is a high priority for the ETF.
School and teacher development
Teachers are a critical factor in education reforms. The ETF takes therefore the role of schools and teachers seriously throughout its work.
Key competences
Focusing on key competences is one of the surest ways of keeping education and training relevant in a fast-changing environment.
VET Governance
Governance modes and models have a high correlation with the overall performance of education and training policies, influencing their strategic formulation and implementation.
Projects
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