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18/09/2009 - OPPORTUNITY FOR FUNDING: CEDEFOP OPEN INVITATION TO TENDER "FROM CREDIT SYSTEMS TO PERMEABILITY IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING"

On 15^th September 2009, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) has published the open invitation to tender Cedefop No. AO/ECVL/ILEMO/Credits&Permeability/017/09 named "From credit systems to permeability in Education and Training".

 

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04/09/2009 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: EOSE GENERAL ASSEMBLY & WORKING CONFERENCE 2009 (Brussels, 19/20 November 2009)

Herewith, we are pleased to announce that this year’s EOSE General Assembly & Working Conference will be held in Brussels (Belgium) on the 19th and 20th of November 2009.

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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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