Traduction de «Service de formation professionnelle » (Français → Anglais) :

Lithuania - residence requirement for providers of formal vocational training who are natural persons from other Member States;

'lifelong learning' means all general education, vocational education and training, non-formal learning and informal learning undertaken throughout life, resulting in an improvement in knowledge, skills and competences or participation in society within a personal, civic, cultural, social and/or employment-related perspective, including the provision of counselling and guidance services.

(2) Over the forty years since its creation, the Advisory Committee on Vocational Training provided the Commission with opinions on vocational training issues, including opinions on communications and other strategic documents, on specific undertakings such as the establishment of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, and on the preparation, evaluation and optimisation of Community action programmes in the field of vocational training.

Over the 40 years since its creation, the Advisory Committee on Vocational Training has provided the Commission with opinions on vocational training issues, including Commission communications and other strategic documents, specific undertakings such as the establishment of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, and the preparation, evaluation and optimisation of Community action programmes in the field of vocational training.

6. The Council emphasizes the importance of vocational education and training policies along the lines indicated above and agrees that Member States' policies should include the following aims, in line with national systems and traditions: (a) promoting investment in vocational education and training which will specifically lead to relevant, recognized or validated qualifications; (b) developing close links between school-based and enterprise-based vocational training, as coherent vocational education and training programmes in schools and enterprises are well calculated to ensure relevant training and qualifications; (c) providing better opportunities for disadvantaged young people and adults, where appropriate, to take advantage of reco ...[+++]gnized up-to- date practical vocational training, which will improve their chances of joining the labour market; (d) developing co-operation between the national and local authorities, employers and unions, enterprises and others, in accordance with national practice, on the overall updating of qualifications and specifically on initiatives designed to increase further training offers; (e) including broad-based general subjects in the vocationally-oriented training system, for the purpose of fulfilling the broader qualification requirements of the future and strengthening the mobility of the workforce; (f) improving the quality of vocational education and training, especially by improving training of trainers; (g) strengthening vocational education systems through improved guidance services, with a view to enhancing the awareness and motivation of individuals; (h) strengthening innovation and applied research, with a view to supporting modernization, adaptability and quality in vocational education and training; (i) strengthening the European dimension in initial and continuing training, in order to facilitate the mobility of young people and adults within the single market.

9. INVITES the Member States, the two sides of industry and the competent bodies, in accordance with national practice, to develop exchange of information and experience on the quality of vocational training, while fully respecting national practice and Member States' responsibility for the content and organization of vocational training, by supporting measures to: (a) promote access to information on the vocational training on offer suited to the needs of the consumer; (b) improve requests for vocational training, whether they derive from the public authorities or from undertakings, for example by formulating objectives; (c) encourage ...[+++] those providing vocational training to improve the quality of their services through further vocational training of their staff and by research and development initiatives and initiatives to propagate innovations in the area of quality; (d) promote methods and tools for evaluating vocational training.