Discussed by ETUC’s “Training, VET and Skills Committee” on 23 October 2024    Background

Discussed by ETUC’s “Training, VET and Skills Committee” on 23 October 2024    Background

Call for tenders for subcontracting external expertise in the framework of the EU Social Partners’ Integrated Project of the European Social Dialogue “Improving skills matching in Europe”

ETUC Position on Equipping workers with necessary skills for the green transition Adopted at the ETUC Executive Committee meeting of 16-17 March 2022 Background

A new, German ‘Alliance of Opportunities’ involving Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union IG BCE and some 26 companies employing 1 million workers aims to reskill staff to meet the challenges of digitalisation, climate change and demographic developments.

A new digital training platform will help workers in Italy’s engineering and metals sector to secure the individual training they need, under provisions in the sector’s collective agreement. Three trade unions – Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and Uilm – together with the employer organisations Federmeccanica and Assistal, have joined forces to launch MetApprendo.  It provides tools to enable companies in the sector to measure training needs, develop customised plans and offer online training.

ETUC’s position on an EU initiative on Individual Learning Accounts Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 3-4 June 2021 Background

Commenting on the overall conclusions of the informal meeting of the Heads of State /Government, in which they   Commit to reduce inequalities, defend fair wages and fight poverty and discrimination Commit to achieve new EU targets to increase employment and training and reduce poverty Recognise that the European Pillar of Social Rights is a fundamental element of recovery Luca Visentini, ETUC General Secretary, said

ETUC Position on enhancing validation of non-formal and informal learning Adopted at the virtual Executive Committee meeting of 22-23 March 2021 Background

ETUC Position on Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 28-29 October 2020

ETUC Position on the European Skills Agenda and future skills strategies Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 28-29 October 2020 Background On 1 July 2020, the European Commission published a new package of policy initiatives:

ETUC Position on renewing the European Alliance for Apprenticeship Adopted at the virtual Executive Committee Meeting of 28-29 October 2020

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Brussels, 2nd July 2020 Adopted by ETUCE Bureau on 23 June, 2020  Adopted at the ETUC Executive Committee on 2 July, 2020  

Brussels, 2nd July 2020 Adopted by ETUCE Bureau on 23 June, 2020 Adopted at the ETUC Executive Committee on 2 July, 2020

SAK, Finland’s largest labour confederation, is to work with innovation foundation Nesta to roll out a training programme called FutureFit, to empower workers with new skills to help them to adapt to changes in workplaces.

Trade unions, employers and the government met together over the summer to discuss a rescue plan for the Ida-Virumaa region in Estonia. With power plant capacity cut by half, 500 workers have already been made redundant and up to 1,500 jobs could be under threat.

Swiss union Travail Suisse is supporting a campaign that invites workers to give up an hour’s salary to help young people in Africa and Latin America to get access to education, work, and an income that allows them to live in dignity. What Swiss workers earn in an hour is equivalent to a week’s salary in many countries. “In Brazil, a mechanic earns about 25 francs (€23) a week,” say campaign organisers. A textile worker in El Salvador gets just nine francs (€8.2) for a 15-hour day.  

Some 3,500 new young teachers are expected to enter Bulgarian schools in 2019 thanks to a 20% increase in salaries. The Bulgarian Teachers' branch of CITUB has reached a collective agreement with the government to raise wages in the upcoming academic year to meet the challenges facing the education system. The government has also pledged to increase the average gross wage in secondary schools to 1,500 leva (€766) by 2021. “This will have a positive effect on staffing," said union chair Yanka Takeva in an interview with FOCUS News Agency.

Joint Recommendations addressing social partnership in employee training were adopted during a conference held on 19 June 2018 in Brussels. A report was also presented during the conference.

British teachers’ trade unions have teamed up with the government’s Department for Education, the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) to tackle the problem of excessive workload among school staff.

Jobless youngsters may risk falling into long-term unemployment unless they get prompt advice and support. Belgian trade unions are working together to help 18-24-year-old ‘NEETs’ (Not in Employment, Education or Training) to enter the labour market. The ‘Coup de Boost’ project, supported by the FGTB and CSC unions as well as the public employment agency Forem in Belgium’s Wallonia region, offers a six-month training programme including job searches, work experience, confidence-building and personal counselling.  

Brussels, 12 June 2018 *Final Reminder To: ETUC Education and Training Committee Members of the Trade Union group of Cedefop Trade Union group of ACVT Trade unions members of the Social Dialogue Committee Members of the ETUC Youth Committee ETUC member organisations Invitation Dear Sir, Madam, The European social partners, ETUC, BusinessEurope, CEEP and UEAPME would like to invite you to participate in the conference:

  EU PRIORITIES ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING POST 2020 – TOWARDS A EUROPEAN RIGHT TO TRAINING FOR ALL   Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 7-8 March, 2018       A skilled workforce is one of the main assets of the European social and economic model. Education contributes to boosting economic growth and increase productivity and wages.