Translation of "Centre des carrières et d'apprentissage continu " (French → English) :

This platform, the world's biggest teachers' network, offers staff (teachers, head teachers, librarians, etc.) and pupils opportunities to communicate, collaborate and work on projects together. Develop a self-assessment tool on digital capacity (SELFIE) so that schools in the EU can, on a voluntary basis and using a set of common criteria, evaluate their digital capacity and develop and improve the way they use technologies for digital age learning. Further support Member States in providing high quality early childhood education and care and step up efforts to help them learn from each other and identify what works best. Offer policy guida ...[+++]nce on the careers and professional development of teachers and school leaders by reinforcing peer learning under Education and Training 2020 through a series of expert seminars and linking it to the European sectoral social dialogue in education; Develop online communities and resources for school professionals, including new eTwinning opportunities for student teachers, online networks for early career teachers and their mentors, online courses (including Massive Open Online Courses), exchange of best practice among providers of Initial Teacher Education and a Digital Competence Framework to support teachers' self-assessment and development; Building on existing cooperation, including on skills strategies and school resources, set up a demand driven technical support arrangement in cooperation with the OECD to help Member States who voluntarily seek assistance, to design and implement major school education reforms.

On the training and retraining, the three or four careers, again we believe in lifelong learning, perhaps not in the notion that we were told a few years ago, that you are going to have five or six careers.

These adult learning centres are holistic and ascribe to lifelong learning.

This calls for multi-stakeholder partnerships, increased learning recognition about digital competences in formal educationand training systems, as well as awareness raising and effective ICT training and certification outside formal education systems, including the use of online tools and digital media for re-skilling and continuing professional developmentBased on the experience gained from the first "European e-Skills Week" (1-5 March 2010)the Commission will support the in 2010 and thereafter, national and European awareness raising activities with a view to promote ICT education, careers and jobs to young people as well as to foster ...[+++] digital literacy among citizen and ICT training for the workforce and the adoption of best practices

In the interests of supporting lifelong learning in its broadest sense, we propose that the Government of Canada partner with the Canadian Association of Science Centres to establish a national science promotion and learning program.

Canadians already in the workforce will be able to benefit from this continuous learning process throughout their careers.