Traduction de «Cooperative education specialist » (Anglais → Français) :

60. Emphasises that adapting education systems and vocational training to the future skills requirements of the labour market is one of the keys to combating youth unemployment, and therefore that the transition from school, vocational education and training or higher education to employment must be better prepared and must follow on directly from education or training; takes the view that better cooperation needs to be encouraged between educational establishments, youth organisations, the various labour market sectors and employers, for exa ...[+++]mple with specialists in various fields giving lectures or seminars to familiarise students with their future work;

training and education, where the Parties will seek to improve education and training relating to regional integration for young people, vocational training, and cooperation between universities and businesses focusing on links between specialist bodies, agreements between training centres and the organisation of meetings between educational establishments.

The development of transnational pilot projects on cooperation in education has produced important results in terms of experience, even though the projects were only on a very small scale: * creation of a network of 208 training institutions to promote the European dimension in the training of teachers and teacher trainers; * since 1989 1 600 teachers have taken part in exchanges to establish links between schools with a view to promoting the European dimension in education; * 40 school partnerships involving 160 schools have been f ...[+++]ormed to foster cooperation between schools; * since 1978, 6 000 education specialists have participated in study visits organised under the ARION programme, with the focus on priority subjects specified by the Council or Member States; * 300 projects on schooling for the children of migrants, itinerant workers and gypsies have been implemented to date; * 200 projects in the field of new information technologies in education have led to exchanges of information, practices and methods.

However, actions at Community level to improve the flow of consumer information have taken the following forms: - descriptive information about goods and services: this information often appears in the form of labelling and some of the Directives mentioned earlier contain provisions relating to the requirements for such information; - prices surveys : the Commission sponsors comparative studies of prices of certain products as a means of detecting the extent of market segmentation, and to provide a basis for policy decisions; - comparative tests : many consumer associations undertake comparative tests and make the results available to ...[+++]their members: action has been taken . to provide financial assistance to the smaller associations to enable them to undertake such tests; . to stimulate the larger consumer organisations to publish the results of their tests on the basis of the Single Market rather than for each national market separately information and advice centres in trans-frontier regions : a network of 10 such centres has been established, based on existing organisations involved in consumer affairs, with the aim of providing specialist information and advice to consumers undertaking cross-frontier transactions; . the mass media : efforts are being made to improve the coverage of consumer issues, particularly at the Community level, by the mass media; . consumer education : the Commission has cooperated with organisations in Member-States in the development of didactic material, both for use in schools and for adult education.

This implies action to: a) Move HSD upstream into the core of macro-economic policy design and implementation ; the macro-policy dialogue with partner countries and decisions on economic reform programmes and debt relief need to take full account and underpin the policies of human empowerment, broadly based and equitable economic growth, expansion of employment and productivity, health and education; to achieve this there is a need to involve HSD specialists as well as macro-economists in policy dialogues, design and implementation. ...[+++] b) Secure a sufficiently high level of financial resources for HSD, especially in regard to health, and education; in this regard, the Council recalls the agreement reached at the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen on a mutual commitment between interested developed and developing country partners to allocate, on average, 20 per cent of ODA and 20 per cent of the national budget, respectively, to basic social programmes. c) Accord high priority to HSD indicators when assessing the overall development performance of a particular country; a set of basic socio-economic indicators and targets would be established by each country with which the EU maintains long-term development cooperation; gender sensitivity should be integrated in these indicators: countries showing a serious commitment to HSD, for example registered improvements in the agreed indicators will be given increased support in their endeavours in these areas; this implies a change in donor conditionality, with greater emphasis on efforts and results in poverty reduction and HSD. d) Increase effectiveness of support for HSD by strengthening initiative, responsibility and mobilization of partner countries in designing and implementing their own policies and by deepening coordination between donors.