Press Release: Social partners increasingly take charge of training in their sectors

A Cedefop workshop held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 25–26 September 2008, showed that the sectoral training funds set up in 15 European countries are an increasingly important means of financing and delivering targeted training, and for providing guidance, advice and forecasts on training needs. However, these funds have, so far, been less efficient in providing such services to employees of smaller companies, especially of micro enterprises (>10 employees).