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03/09/2009 - CEDEFOP CONFERENCE ON "QUALIFICATIONS FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND EMPLOYABILITY" - Thessaloniki 5/6 October 2009

Qualifications play an important role in modern societies. They are carriers of information and values, and extensively influencing the way individuals and education/training systems as well as labour market institutions interact with each other. Modern national qualifications frameworks, reflecting the principles laid down by the EQF, focus on the relationship between different education and training sectors, and try to embed these in a lifelong learning strategy.

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02/09/2009 - PUBLIC CONSULTATION: GREEN PAPER ON "PROMOTING THE LEARNING MOBILITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE"

The EU has a long track record of supporting young people: E.g. in 2006, around 310,000 young people were able to go abroad with support from European programmes. Nonetheless, going abroad still remains the exception rather than the rule (figures above represent a mere 0.3% of the age group of 16-29 year olds only) and it is more accessible to some groups, such as students, than to others, such as vocational trainees and apprentices.

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01/09/2009 - EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: STUDY ON EQUAL TREATMENT OF NON-NATIONALS IN INDIVIDUAL SPORTS COMPETITIONS

Invitation for tender EAC n°19/2009: Based on Action 40 in the Pierre de Coubertin Action Plan annexed to the White Paper on Sport stating that "As regards access to individual competitions for non-nationals, the Commission intends to launch a study to analyse all aspects of this complex issue", now an invitation for tender for this study on the equal treatment of non-nationals in individual sports competitions has been launched.

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29/06/2009 - INFORMAL EU WORKING GROUP ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SPORT

During the last Informal meeting of the EU Sport Directors that was held in Prague, on 28-29 April 2009 during the Czech Presidency of the EU, the Sport Directors welcomed the initiative proposed by the European Commission (DGEAC) to set up an informal EU Working Group on Education and Training in Sport.

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