Social Agenda Magazine | Number 45 (September 2016)

Skills: a new agenda

Summary:

Social Agenda n°45 focuses on the recently adopted New Skills Agenda for Europe which supports training, learning, re-training and upskilling in order to better equip citizens for the labour market. The initiative brings clarity to the recognition of education systems, qualifications and skills across Europe, and ensures better skills profiles for third-country nationals.

This issue also highlights the action plan on the integration of third-country nationals, including asylum-seekers and refugees, adopted by the European Commission on 7 June.

Contents:

• Tightening the grip on cancer
• Innovative projects ready to be scaled up
• Undeclared work - a drive for change
• Better integrating third-country nationals
• Skills - a new agenda
• Up-skilling the EU workforce
• A skills guarantee
• Boosting the European Qualifications Framework
• The facts on skills
• Poverty - breaking the vicious circle
• Not forgetting the S in ESF
• Rene van Schalkwijk, EUproVET President