Translation of "stratégie d apprentissage " (French → English) :

75. Stresses the need to exchange and validate best practices between Member States, and regional and local authorities, as well as to compare and measure their effectiveness, in particular in relation to dual and vocational education and apprenticeship and traineeship systems and curricula, learning outcomes of non-formal and informal learning, and lifelong learning strategies, while acknowledging the specificities of each labour market and education system; points to the Euro Apprenticeship platform as one of the key tools for deve ...[+++]loping European partnerships and exchanging best practices regarding apprenticeships;

75. Stresses the need to exchange and validate best practices between Member States, and regional and local authorities, as well as to compare and measure their effectiveness, in particular in relation to dual and vocational education and apprenticeship and traineeship systems and curricula, learning outcomes of non-formal and informal learning, and lifelong learning strategies, while acknowledging the specificities of each labour market and education system; points to the Euro Apprenticeship platform as one of the key tools for deve ...[+++]loping European partnerships and exchanging best practices regarding apprenticeships;

75. Stresses the need to exchange and validate best practices between Member States, and regional and local authorities, as well as to compare and measure their effectiveness, in particular in relation to dual and vocational education and apprenticeship and traineeship systems and curricula, learning outcomes of non-formal and informal learning, and lifelong learning strategies, while acknowledging the specificities of each labour market and education system; points to the Euro Apprenticeship platform as one of the key tools for deve ...[+++]loping European partnerships and exchanging best practices regarding apprenticeships;

15. Stresses the importance of increasing participation in life-long learning, in particular in vocational education and training with a view to ensuring employability, and upgrading the skills of the workforce and to strengthening competitiveness; points out that the proportion of people in further education should also be increased so that people with higher qualifications can find and perform suitable jobs into old age; considers in this context that incentives should be provided for both employees and employers, with particular focus on SMEs; considers also that more comprehensive lifelong learning strategies need to be put in pla ...[+++]ce and that vocational education and training systems need to be tuned to the rapidly changing needs of the labour market, technological development and new approaches to the organisation of work;

4. Reiterates the importance of the role that ICTs play in lifelong learning (for example, distance learning) and of providing greater support for language learning following three lines: development of "1+2" language principle, special language programs for immigrants in order to increase their employability and social integration and finally the policy of learning the language of, and promoting joint training programmes with, neighbouring countries in border areas as it opens them job opportunities;

Efficiency and equity should be integrated on a forward-looking basis into lifelong learning strategies (national lifelong learning strategies must be adopted by the Member States by the end of 2006). Their repercussions and the effects of investment in education and training are substantial in the long term.