International strategies of key importance to education and training
The EU Strategy - Education and Training 2020
On 12 May the Council of the European Union adopted a new strategic framework for co-operation between EU Member States to reform their education and training systems ('ET 2020'). The conclusions identify both immediate priorities for 2009-11 and long-term challenges for the decade ahead. The tools used to meet them include new education and training benchmarks for monitoring progress across Europe.
The new strategic vision and framework 'ET 2020' addresses four strategic objectives:
- Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality;
- Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training;
- Promoting equality, social cohesion and active citizenship;
- Enhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of eduaction and training.
Read more about ET 2020
The Strategic Framework of ET 2020 (pdf)
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Education for Sustaianble Development (ESD) comprises the social, ecological and economical dimesions, which are interlinked.
ESD supports five fundamental types of learning to provide quality education and foster sustainable human development:
* Learning to know; * Learning to be; * Learning to live together; * Learning to do; * Learning to transform oneself and society
The United Nations har proclaimed the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), which promotes ESD and calls for education and training to make these issues a priority.
Read more about ESD and the Decade
2010 - The European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
The European Commission has designated 2010 as the "European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion". The 2010 European Year aims to reach EU citizens and all public, social and economic stakeholders.
Read more about the European Year 2010
Read more on the European Commission’s site
The European Year for combating poverty and social exclusion (pdf)
Année européenne de lutte contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale (pdf)
Das Europäische Jahr zur Bekämpfung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung (pdf)
