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Press release - Despite changing attitudes, employers are not yet prepared for an ageing workforce
Attitudes toward what used to be called “the demographic time bomb” are improving: Europe’s ageing workforce is increasingly seen as a factor of growth and innovation. Yet while employers are fully aware that the workforce is ageing, they do little to prepare for this change, and certainly not enough to make the best of it.
Strategies for improving participation in and awareness of adult learning - European guide
New website promoting Health Ageing
Cedefop presents its findings at opening conference of European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations
Active ageing is about getting more out of life as you grow older - at work, private life or in the community. Cedefop studies how guidance and training can encourage older people to stay on at work - and how the workplace can make the best use of their skills and experience. It is presenting its findings at the Danish Presidency conference launching the Year of Active Ageing on 18-19 January.
Council Resolution on a renewed European agenda for adult learning
Flexible learning pathways for a better educated European workforce
To ensure Europe's global competitiveness, the European Union's Member States need to provide their citizens with a wide range of combinable learning options. What are the challenges for policy-makers in charge of developing progression routes in education and training systems?
Managing demographic challenges through better reconciliation of work and family life - Council Conclusions
Press release - The right approach to training can help companies get the best out of an ageing workforce
Music and arts classes have been shown to improve wellbeing and life satisfaction at an older age. Yet formal training does not have the same effect. What is formal training doing wrong? Is it ill adapted to the needs of older workers? An international seminar takes a close look at what is needed to make the best use of an ageing workforce.
Investing in an ageing workforce – why and how?
Few companies are adapting their human resource practices to the ageing of the workforce. What can policy-makers do to encourage workers, employers and educators to take action? Last week's international seminar in Brussels, jointly organised by Cedefop and the European Commission, examined the impact of investing in an ageing workforce.
Country reports on the Action Plan on Adult Learning

Event

Fostering innovation through workplace learning: Linking innovation and training policies
European Conference: One Step Up in later life: learning for active ageing and intergenerational solidarity
In-company trainers: competence requirements, certification and validation
Participants from 14 countries discussed the competences of in-company trainers in their countries and throughout Europe.
High level conference on healthy ageing across the lifecycle
Generations Ageing Together - A conference on intergenerational solidarity
Empowering vulnerable adults to tackle labour-market challenges
Opening conference for the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012
European Employment Forum - a perspective on the new labour market reality
An annual conference and exhibition focusing on the major social and economic issues surrounding employment and creating an effective discussion and meeting forum.
Innovation and learning in enterprises
FUTURAGE - A road map for ageing research

Publication

Empowering vulnerable adults to tackle labour market challenges
4122 EN 30/04/2013 Euro 0
Trainers in continuing VET: emerging competence profile
4126 EN 16/04/2013 Euro 0
Learning while working
3060 EN 17/02/2011 Euro 0
The right skills for silver workers
5508 EN 04/11/2010 Euro 0
Working and ageing
3053 EN 22/07/2010 Euro 0
Briefing note - Encouraging continuing training by enterprises – time for a rethink?
9022 EN 23/03/2010 Euro 0

Bibliography

Lifelong Learning - Bibliography
Lifelong Learning - Bibliography
Electronic Journals
ePer is the library's collection of electronic journals related to education and training. Currently, over 500 on-line journals are described. The journals can
VET-ePer : electronic journals and periodicals
VET-ePer : electronic journals and periodicals

Extranet

Europass Implementation
The purpose of this Virtual Community is to support the implementation of the Europass initiative in Member States.
Quality Assurance in VET
The VC is one of the eight communities set up by Cedefop to fulfil two of its missions, namely to exploit and disseminate information on VET and to provide a forum for debate and exchanges of ideas.
Non-formal and Informal Learning
This Virtual Community is provided by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) in order to support the development and implementation of methods and systems for identification and validation of non-formal learning.
European Qualifications Framework - Credit Transfer In VET
The VC is supporting the work of the European Commission on a European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) and on the establishment of a European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
Cedefop Governing Board
The purpose of this site is to provide an information tool for the members of Cedefop's Governing Board.
Sectoral approaches to LLL
This VC was set up to support the work on development of sectoral qualifications in line with the Copenhagen Process.
European eSkills Forum
The goals are to promote the implementation of the recommendations of the European e-Skills Forum and to facilitate dialogue between all relevant stakeholders.
Training of Trainers Network

Job Vacancy

Expert in the Field of Adult Learning (Area Enhanced Cooperation in VET and LLL)
Internal/Inter-Institutional/Inter-Agency/External Notice of Vacancy

Procurement Call

Analysis of the Continuing Vocational Training and Adult Education Surveys
Guidance in employers’ age management strategies – Supporting longer working lives of older workers
Guidance for active age management – Supporting longer working lives of older workers
Call for tenders: Return to Work – Work-based learning and the reintegration of unemployed adults into the labour market
Adult learning in the workplace: skill development to promote innovation in enterprises
The use of validation by enterprises for human resource and career development purposes
Data collection skills obsolescence among ageing workers
Lifelong Learning programme Call for proposals 2008
Study on European terminology in adult learning and monitoring of the sector
DG EAC 35/06 - Adult learning professions in Europe

Article

New publication: Trainers in continuing VET: emerging competence profile
Cedefop has long tracked the changing roles and professional development of teachers and trainers in vocational education and training. In this publication, it analyses 19 Member State initiatives which aim to set out competence requirements for trainers in adult learning and continuing training. The analysis, which also covers validation of non-formal and informal learning, forms the basis of a proposed emerging competence profile for trainers.
Portugal: programme for public employment service reform
The goal of this programme is to keep job-seekers as close to the labour market as possible and to help improve their employability by directing specific groups of subsidised unemployed people (aged 45 and above or unemployed for six months or more) to training or occupational programmes.
Portugal: adult education survey 2011
Of the population aged 18 to 69, 46% participated in some kind of education or training in 2011.
Sweden: the Swedish government's ‘youth package’ for more pathways to jobs
The goal of the Swedish government is full employment. An important part of achieving this goal is to create wider pathways to jobs for groups with a weak foothold in the labour market. The labour market situation for young people (20-24 years) causes extra concern. The youth unemployment rate has increased for a long time and has since the beginning of the 2000s remained at high levels. Due to the European economic crisis Sweden is also entering into a recession with many layoffs and job cuts as a result.
Portugal: adult education new website
Spain: Training for youth employment
With a budget of nearly EUR 42 million, a statewide training programme is now being implemented for its second year addressed to improve the skills and employability of young people under 30.
Silver workers - golden opportunities
The European workforce is getting older. By 2060 there will be only two people of working age (15-64 years) in the European Union for every person aged over 65 years, compared to four to one today. Many EU countries, in response are increasing retirement ages.
Briefing note - Silver workers – golden opportunities
It is a well-known fact that the European workforce is getting older. Instead of being seen as a demographic time bomb with very negative consequences, Europe’s ageing workforce is increasingly talked about as ‘the silver economy’ that may energise development and bring new opportunities for economic growth.
Luxembourg: the economically-active population and lifelong learning - State of play
In 2010, the Luxembourg Training Observatory launched a survey ( ) to evaluate the economically-active population’s perception of lifelong learning. Results of this survey were extremely valuable. Of respondents, 90% see continuous training as a solution to improve their skills and increase their working value.
Austrian: Open Access Journal for Adult Education celebrates its fifth anniversary
Soaring number of readers since 2007, now with English abstracts

Project

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Quality assurance in VET is a key priority at EU level to promote increased transparency of VET policy developments between Member States, thereby enhancing mutual trust, mobility of workers and learners, and lifelong learning. In cooperation with the European Commission, Cedefop supports the implementation of the EQARF Recommendation at EU, national and sectoral level.
Forecasting skill demand and supply - Members only
Skill supply and demand forecasts provide comprehensive information on the future labour market trends using skills as the key parameter. The forecasts aim to help different labour market actors - employees, employers, students and parents, social partners, policy makers - to take informed decisions and appropriate action concerning the labour market. The forecast acts as an early warning mechanism to improve interaction between education and training systems (covering all types and at all levels) and the labour market and to avoid potential skill imbalances.
 
Continuing earlier activities on older workers and lifelong learning, this project aims to increase understanding of and provide new insights into ageing and work through new research. Its purpose is to support evidence-based active ageing policies in the context of widespread population ageing in many western societies.
 
Understanding the contribution of VET to individuals’ career, employability and social inclusion as well as its impact on economic growth and productivity is important for assessing investment in VET compared to other types of education or learning. Demonstrating economic and social returns to training may also inform and guide enterprise and individual investment in training.
 
Cedefop supports the development of a European adult learning policy as part of the lifelong learning strategy by following up the Council’s conclusions and the European Commission’s action plan on adult learning. Cedefop monitors and reviews adult learning trends and policy developments such as wider access to and adult participation in education and training, strengthening the quality of provision and upgrading the qualifications of the adult population.
 
VET in Europe is the most comprehensive information resource on vocational education and training (VET) systems in Europe. ReferNet, Cedefop’s European network, provides descriptions of national VET systems in the European Union, Norway and Iceland based on a common template designed by Cedefop.
 
The Cedefop Research Arena aims to develop new thinking regarding the learning processes for adults in work environments. In order to achieve this goal Cedra forms small European research networks to engage in European development work on a work...
First research report: Background report
To strengthen the evidence base for policy-making in the Copenhagen process, Cedefop has gathered research to examine VET policy priorities in its fourth report on VET research ‘Modernising vocational education and training’.
 
This project is dedicated to the social partners and anyone interested in labour relations in general. It is an information platform for supporting the main stakeholders in lifelong learning policies at European, national, regional and sectoral level...

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Detailed thematic analysis provide an in-depth description of a chosen VET theme for each Member STate plus Norway and Iceland, thus allowing comparative analysis across countries.
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The establishment of the Commission Expert Group on Lifelong Guidance is part of the implementation of the Resolution of the Education Council on Enhanced European Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training and the Commission’s Communication on Lifelong Learning and is intended to support the integrated follow-up of the Report on the Objectives of Education and Training Systems.

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