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Lifelong Learning within the EU Framework

• A Report on Recommendations for a more Inclusive and Accessible LLP and the new Education and Training Programme
• Competences supporting lifelong learning and the "new skills for new jobs" initiative. Conclusions of the Council (May 2010)
• OECD Skills Strategy- Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives: A Strategic Approach to Skills Policies 2012
• Developing Key Competences at School in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy 2012
• Qualifications Systems – Bridges to Lifelong Learning - OECD
• EC-Development of statistics on education and lifelong learning (April, 2008)
• UNESCO-The Global Literacy Challenge- A profile of youth and adult literacy at the mid-point of the United Nations Literacy Decade 2003 – 2012 (2008)
• New Skills for New Jobs - Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions (December 2008)
• Key Competences in Europe: Opening Doors for Lifelong Learners across the School Curriculum and Teacher Education
• EC-Key competences for lifelong learning (December, 2006)
• EC-Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 (November, 2006)
• World Bank-Lifelong learning in the global knowledge economy- challenges for developing countries (2003)

Final Report (2009)

• Resolution on Lifelong Learning adopted by the Education Council (June, 2002)
• Communication from the Commission on Making a European Area of Lifelong Learning a Reality (November, 2001)

Lifelong learning within the Bologna Process

• First Bologna seminar on Lifelong Learning (Prague, 2003): Recommendations
• First Bologna seminar on Lifelong Learning (Prague, 2003): General Report

Building on the first Bologna seminar on LLL held in Prague in June 2003, three events addressed different aspects of lifelong learning between 2003 and the 2009 Ministerial conference :

• Slovenian Presidency event, Brdo, 10-11 March 2008: "Universities and Lifelong learning”
• EUA Autumn conference, Rotterdam, 23-25 October 2008:   “Inclusive and responsive universities: ensuring Europe’s competitiveness”
• Dutch Bologna Seminar, Amsterdam, 11-12 December 2008: "Recognition of prior learning, quality assurance and the implementation of procedures"

European Universities' Charter on Lifelong Learning

At its autumn conference in Rotterdam, EUA officially presented the new European Universities’ Charter on Lifelong Learning. The Charter, developed at the request of the French Prime Minister François Fillon, is based around a series of 10 commitments made by universities in addressing the development and implementation of lifelong learning strategies, with a set of matching commitments proposed for governments and regional partners.

• European Universities' Charter on Lifelong Learning

Recognition of non-formal and informal learning

• CEDEFOP-Recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning for VET teachers and trainers(2007)
• EC-Recognition of the value of non-formal and informal learning within the European youth field(July, 2006)
• European guidelines for validating non-formal and informal learning
• European Council Conclusions on validation of non formal and informal learning (May, 2004)
• Validation of non-formal and informal learning: Contribution of the Commission Expert Group, Progress Report (November, 2003)

Adult learning

• Global report on adult learning and education 2009
• Eurydice-Adults in Formal Education - Policies and Practices in Europe (February 2011)
• EAEA_activity_report_2011
• Enabling the low skilled to take their qualifications "one step up"
• CONFINTEA-Regional Report on the Development and State of the Art of Adult Learning and Education - South East Europe(2008)
• Report by Expert Group on New Skills for New Jobs
• ETF: Designing Adult Learning Strategies - The Case of South Eastern Europe
• ALPINE – Adult Learning Professions in Europe: A study of the current situation, trends and issues (August, 2008)
• Eurydice-Non-Vocational Adult Education in Europe (January, 2007)
• Action Plan on Adult learning: It is always a good time to learn; Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions (September, 2007)
• Communication from the European Commission on Adult Learning: It is never too late to learn (October, 2006)
• Lifelong learning (adult participation in education and training) EU Labour Force Survey
• CONFINTEA-The Hamburg Declaration on Adult Learning and Agenda for the Future(1997)

Vocational Education and Training – Copenhagen Process

Policy framework

• Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the priorities for enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training for the period 2011-2020
• Bruges Communiqué (December 2010)
• Council Conclusions on the priorities for enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training for the period 2011-2020 (Bruges review), 18-19 November 2010
• Council Conclusions on the future priorities for enhanced European cooperation in VET (Bordeaux review), 20-21 November 2008
• Council Conclusions on the future priorities for enhanced European cooperation in VET (Helsinki review), 13-14 November 2006
• Declaration of European association of training institutions (2006)
• Council Resolution on the Promotion of Enhanced European Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training, 19 December 2002
• A new impetus for European cooperation in Vocational Education and Training to support the Europe 2020 strategy
• Conference under the Swedish Presidency with the EU “The Role of VET“ (Stocholm, November, 2009)
• Bordeaux Communiqué from the Meeting between the ministers for vocational education and training and the ministers for higher education (November, 2008)
• The Helsinki Communiqué on Enhanced European Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training (December, 2006)
• Maastricht Communiqué on the future priorities of enhanced European cooperation in VET – Review of the Copenhagen Declaration (December, 2004)
• Council Conclusions on future priorities in the field of vocational education and training (Follow-up to the Copenhagen process, October, 2004)
• The Copenhagen Declaration - Declaration of the European Ministers of Vocational Education and Training, and the European Commission, on enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training (November, 2002)

Implementation

• Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the future priorities for enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training (VET)
• A new impetus for European cooperation in Vocational Education and Training to support the Europe 2020 strategy
• Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the priorities for enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training for the period 2011-2020
• European Commission's report on progress towards common European objectives in education and training 2011
• Copenhagen Declaration implementation - Stocktaking report 2003