Aviana Bulgarelli

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Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Vocational
Training17-18 November 2005, Brussels

• Aviana Bulgarelli
• Director of Cedefop

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Cedefops role and tasks

• The aim of the Centre is to assist the Commission
  in encouraging, at Community level, the promotion
  and development of vocational education training
  and of in-service training.
• As the European Unions reference centre for
  vocational education and training, Cedefop
  provides policy-makers, researchers and
  practitioners with information to allow them to
  have a clearer understanding of developments in
  VET and to take well-informed decisions on future
  action.

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Cedefops role and task

• Cedefop promotes the European and international
  dimensions of education and training systems by
  encouraging and facilitating mutual learning
  (between countries, researchers and professional
  communities)

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Cedefops role and tasks

• Cedefops statutory role is to provide
  information and to report on and analyse
  developments in Member States and at European
  level. In accordance with Article 2 of Cedefops
  founding Regulation, its main tasks are to
• contribute to developing and coordinating
  research
• exploit and disseminate useful information
• encourage and support a concerted approach to
  vocational education and training problems
• compile selected documentation and analysis of
  data
• provide a forum for all those concerned.

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Serving its partners

• Cedefop supplies its products and services to the
  following stakeholders
• the European Commission, European Parliament and
  other European institutions
• the Member States
• social partners
• other policy-makers, including local and regional
  authorities
• vocational education and training researchers and
  practitioners
• associated countries (Iceland and Norway) and
  candidate countries.

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Cedefops medium-term priorities 2006-08

• Cedefop will contribute to the education and
  training 2010 work programme in support of the
  Lisbon goals and the European Council
  Stockholm/Barcelona conclusions.
• Cedefop will concentrate on the four priorities
  cited in the Maastricht Communiqué.

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Transversal tools

• From 2007 Cedefop will support the new integrated
  lifelong learning (LLL) programme.
• It will support thematic networks and create
  synergy between the LLL programme as a laboratory
  of innovation and Cedefop as a tool in the
  service of the EUs vocational training policy.
• Assistance in implementing the integrated LLL
  programme will also be provided and will promote
  coherence with the activities of the European
  Social Fund and other lifelong learning-related
  programmes.

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Transversal tools

• Cedefop will, in cooperation with others, provide
  comparable information on the EUs lifelong
  learning approach. The introduction of coherent
  and comprehensive national lifelong learning
  strategies, which is due to take place by 2006,
  needs analysis and reporting arrangements with
  Cedefops reference and expertise network
  (ReferNet), which provides a sound basis for data
  collection, review, analysis, research input and
  dissemination of information on education and
  training.

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Transversal tools

• A major tool in enhanced cooperation is the
  knowledge management system, which will provide
  thematic comparative information as a foundation
  for policy development.The European training
  village will develop a thematic approach with a
  constantly updated web-based transversal and
  comparative reporting system and a platform for
  networking and exchange.
• Cedefop will continue to report on change and
  innovation in VET research. The next research
  report will focus on the Maastricht priorities.

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Transversal tools

• Cedefop will support cooperation and partnership
  on issues related to human resource development
  through the social dialogue on vocational
  education and training, and particularly on
  sectoral activities.

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Transversal tools

• Cedefop will continue to develop networks and
  organise conferences and meetings to provide a
  platform for dialogue, exchange and policy input.
  In particular, it will organise study visits on
  behalf of the European Commission for mutual and
  peer learning on priority issues.

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Transversal tools

• Cedefop will work together with the European
  Commission, Eurostat and other international
  partners (such as the OECD, Unesco, the ILO and
  the Council of Europe) in developing and
  disseminating comparative statistics on education
  and training, and especially on VET, within the
  overall framework of lifelong learning.

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Transversal tools

• Cedefop will ensure high visibility and quality
  of service and disseminate the outcomes of its
  work through a variety of channels the Cedefop
  website the ETV including its networks and
  projects electronic publications and databases
  and through key reference publications on
  research and policy and other publications, such
  as the European journal vocational training, the
  Panorama series and the Cedefop info broadsheet.

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On going conclusions

• Cedefop is the EU tool for knowledge based policy
  making
• Cedefops priorities match the policy agenda in
  VET and LLL
• Cedefops Governing Board is the guarantee that
  activities target the needs of policy makers and
  social partners

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