Halász Gábor National Institute for Public Education Budapesrt

1. The development of education and the structural policy of the European UnionBudapest - 2004 October 25 Halász Gábor National Institute for Public Education Budapesrt

2. Questions to be treated • Structural policy and educational development in the EU: the background • The emergence of a European lifelong learning (LLL) policy in the nineties • The increasing importance of learning in employment and structural policies • Perspectives for new and old member countries

3. Structural policy and educational development: the background • The origins: limited possibilities for using structural funds for educational development • Examples of structural funds being used successfully for educational development in a few countries (e.g. Ireland, Portugal) in the nineties • the condition of success: connecting educational development strongly to social, economic and territorial development • The emergence of the European LLL policy changes the scene

4. The emergence of the European LLL policy and the European Employment Strategy/1 • Global trendsshaping EU policies on learning • The great „breakthrough”: the 1993 Delors report on growth, employment and competitiveness • The emergence of a new European LLL policy • The 1995 White Book on „Teaching and Learning” and the European LLL year (1996) • The LLL Memorandum (2000) and the communication on „Making a European area of lifelong learning a reality” (2001)

5. Learning in employment asnd structural policy/1 • The late nineties: • The emergence of the new European Employment Strategy(EES) • A key feture of EES: improving the adaptability of working force through LLL • Employment becomes increasingly linked with structural policy (ESF becomes the instrument of the new EES) • The implications for the education sector: education increasingly connected with structural policy through EES

6. Learning in employment asnd structural policy/2 • Valorising learning in the European Employment Strategy • Defining common LLL goals: the guidelines • Reporting on national LLL policies: LLL policy evaluation in the the NAPs and the Joint reports • Related education sector measures • Growing impact on structural policy and on the regulation of structural funds

7. Learning in employment asnd structural policy /3 • The objectives of structural policy in the 2000-2006 period –the three objectives • The new (2000-2006) third objective: developing education and training and investing into human resources • Education and training in structural policy after 2006 – possible scenarios • Lisbon process as a strong common political priority • The outcome of policy coordination between member states (OMC) • The improvement of inter-sectoral cooperation • Expectations and attitudes of new member countries

8. Perspectives • A question to be answered by the education sector: „How to harness structural policy for educational development?” • New opportunities (new resources) but also new challenges (greater) interdependence with other sectors) • What should the education sector do: • Exploring better linkages between national education policy priorities and those of EU structural policy • Strengthening cooperation between education and other sectors (employment, social affaires, territorial development, public management reform) • Sharing successful practices between countries

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