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Section 3: EU Policy Developments

• Innovation Union promotes excellence in educa- • The participation of adults in lifelong learning
tion and skills development in order to ensure to be increased to an average of at least 15%
future growth from innovation in products, ser- by 2020 (against a 2010 benchmark of 12.5%).
vices and business models in a Europe faced
with an ageing population. It urges member- The Communiqué The Bologna Process 2020 – The
states to ensure a sufficient supply of science, European Higher Education Area in the New Decade,
mathematics and engineering graduates. adopted at a Conference in Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve
• The European Platform against Poverty and Social on 28–29 April 2009, emphasises that ‘student-cen-
Exclusion emphasises reducing early school- tred learning requires empowering individual learn-
leaving. ers and effective support and guidance structures in
• The Agenda for New Skills and Jobs states that higher education’.
people should acquire the skills needed for The Bruges Communiqué (Communiqué of the
further learning and the labour market through European Ministers for Vocational Education and
adult learning, as well as through general, voca- Training, the European Social Partners and the Euro-
tional and higher education, to enable the cur- pean Commission, meeting in Bruges on 7 December
rent and future workforce to be adapted to 2010) on Enhanced European Co-operation in Vocational
the new economic conditions. This should be Education and Training for the Period 2011–20 calls for:
achieved through a strong impetus to the stra-
tegic framework for co-operation in education • ‘Close co-operation’ between Public Employ-
and training (ET 2020). ment Services and education and training
guidance systems, leading to more integrated
ET 2020, adopted in May 2009, constitutes the guidance and counselling services.
roadmap of Europe in the field of education and • Career management skills development and a
training until 2020. One of its four priorities is the ‘tasting approach’, providing young people with
quality and efficiency of education, which will be an opportunity to become acquainted with dif-
measured with supplementary benchmarks to be ferent career possibilities.
Policy
attained by 2020: • Accessible and targeted guidance services pro-
viding additional support at key transitions
• At least 95% of children between the age of four points, especially for learners at risk of under-
and the age for starting compulsory primary achievement.
education to participate in early childhood
education. Within the Employment Strategy, the four Inte-
• The share of 15-year-olds with insufficient abil- grated Guidelines for Implementing the Europe 2020
ities in reading, mathematics and science to be Strategy (GL 7, 8, 9, 10) ask the member-states:
less than 15%.
• The number of mathematics, science and tech- • To implement flexicurity policies (which com-
nology graduates to be increased by at least bine flexibility and security within an integrated
15% over the 2000 level. approach) and ‘to strengthen Public Employ-
• By 2020, 20% of all university graduates to ment Services with personalised services and
have undertaken learning mobility as part of active and preventive labour market measures
their university education. at an early stage’. Such services and measures
should be open to all, including young people,

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