1. COMENIUS, ICT, Languages, ROMA
Kick-off meeting 2013
Ana Carla Pereira
Head of Unit, Skills and Qualifications, DG EAC
4 February 2013
Date: in 12 pts
5. Rates of Early School Leaving (ESL) must
improve significantly to reach the 2020 target
Source: Eurostat (LFS 2011)
6. Tertiary attainment targets can be reached,
but will require a sustained effort
EU 2020 target = 40%
Source: Eurostat (LFS 2011)
7. Basic skills levels are still lacking in many countries
Percentage of low achievers in reading (15 year-olds, %), 2009
Source: OECD (PISA)
8. Europe needs to be more entrepreneurial
Percentage of individuals aged 18-64 who believe they have the required
knowledge to start a business (2011)
% of all individuals 18- 64 years old
Source: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2011 Note: Italian result is from 2010
9. Language skills must be improved
First foreign language: percentage of pupils who have reached the level
of independent user (B1 or higher)
Source: European Commission, 2012. First European Survey on Language Competences
10. ICT skills levels vary greatly between countries
% of individuals with low, medium and high computer skills (2011)
Source: Eurostat, Information society Statistics, 2011
11. Great diversity in Vocational Education and
Training (VET)
Distribution of upper secondary (ISCED 3) students by programme orientation
(general or vocational). %, 2010
Source: Eurostat Database, UOE data collection, 2010
12. Work-Based Learning is still an exception
Proportion of VET students enrolled in combined work- and school-based
VET, as a % of all students in upper secondary VET (2010)
Source: Cedefop, based on data from Eurostat, UOE
13. Teachers are an ageing profession in most countries
Age distribution of teachers in lower and upper secondary, 2010
Source: Eurostat, UOE; in Eurydice Key Data on Education, 2012
14. There are financial constraints in the sector
Evolution of teacher salaries compared with the previous year
15. One Commission Communication, with seven
accompanying Staff Working Documents:
• Education and Training Monitor
• Country analysis
• Key Competences
• Partnerships and flexible pathways for LL skills
development
• Supporting the teaching professions
• Language competences for employability, mobility and
growth
• Vocational Education and Training for better skills,
growth and jobs
16. New Commission initiatives
• Enhanced support to Member States – Monitoring of
progress, OMC, ORCD collaboration…
• European area of skills and qualifications
• EU-level Alliance for Apprenticeships
• Funding Education for Growth
• Opening up Education – ICT and OER
• A new language benchmark
• Entrepreneurship education actions
• Partnerships between Education, enterprises and
research, promoted through new programme Erasmus
4 All
18. A Streamlined architecture
Existing programmes A single integrated programme
International
Lifelong higher education
programmes:
Learning
Programme
Erasmus Mundus,
Tempus,
Erasmus for All
Alfa, Edulink, Bilateral
Programmes
Grundtvig
1. 2. 3.
Erasmus Learning Co-operation Policy
Leonardo Mobility projects Support
Youth in Action
Comenius Programme
Specific activities:
• Jean Monnet
• Sport
19. 3 Key actions
Key action 1: Key action 2: Key action 3:
Learning mobility of individuals Co-operation for innovation Support for policy reform
and good practices
Modernising education through Modernising education through Modernising education through
chances to learn abroad: cooperation: policy support:
►Students: higher education
► Partnerships between ► Evidence based support for
and vocational training effective education investment
education institutions,
youth organisations,
►Masters students: ► Development and promotion of
training institutions and other actors
a new loan guarantee mechanism EU wide tools to assess and
► Large-scale coooperation recognise skills
►Youth:
between education and business:
international volunteering ► Peer learning and cross-fertilization
‘Knowledge Alliances’ and
and youth exchanges between education systems
‘Sector Skills Alliances’
►Staff:
► Connecting students and
teachers, trainers,
staff via web platforms
school leaders and youth workers
► Helping modernisation of
►International dimension:
universities in third countries
mobility for EU and non-EU beneficiaries
20. BUDGET ALLOCATION BY TYPE OF ACTION FOR THE PROGRAMME
Key Action 1: Learning mobility of
individuals (63%)
2% 2% 1%
3%
Key Action 2: Cooperation for 4%
innovation and good practices
(25%)
Key Action 3:Support for policy
reform (4%)
Operational grants to National
25%
Agencies (3%)
Administrative expenditure (2%)
63%
Jean Monnet Initiative (2%)
Sport Action (1%)
