Economica (Nov 2017)
ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION STRATEGY ON EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Abstract
Vocational education and training is a vital goal in both economic and social contexts. The opportunities that the European Union and its Member States offer to their citizens for living conditions, studies and jobs are major contributions, which together with the understanding and realization of a social culture of every citizen is a priority. Each year, more than one million citizens, of all ages, benefit from vocational education and training in national programs. Cooperation between Member States has taken a momentum in 2010 when programs have been established integrating a range of young people and people of other ages into the path of intellecttual development, education and training in line with the program adopted in 2009 by the European Council and Targeting measures by 2020. There is a set of measures under 4 strategic objecttives that address education and which include long-term learning and mobility. The second is to improve the quality and efficiency of education and training, then to promote social equality, the cohesion and active involvement of citizens in social and economic life, and last but not least, creation and innovation, which must be respected at all levels Training of the population.
