Traduction de «Groupe d'étude sur le renforcement de l'horizontalité » (Français → Anglais) :

Strengthening Our Horizontal Policy Capacity Working Group

Increasing civic, cultural and political participation of third-country nationals in the host society and improving dialogue between different groups of third-country nationals, the government and civil society to promote their active citizenship Supporting advisory platforms at various levels for consultation of third-country nationals Encouraging dialogue and sharing experience and good practice between immigrant groups and generations Increasing third-country nationals’ participation in the democratic process, promoting a balanced gender representation, through awareness raising, information campaigns and capacity-building Minimising ...[+++]obstacles to the use of voting rights, e.g. fees or bureaucratic requirements Facilitating immigrants’ participation in mainstream organisations, i.a. by supporting volunteer and internship schemes Increasing involvement of third-country nationals in society’s responses to migration Building migrants’ associations as sources of advice to newcomers, and including their representatives in introduction programmes as trainers and role models Elaborating national preparatory citizenship and naturalisation programmes | Initiating a study/mapping exercise of the level of rights and obligations of third-country nationals in the Member States Encouraging the opening-up of mainstream organisations to immigrants and the building of organisations representing their interests EU-wide Fostering the creation of a platform of migrants’ organisations and organisations representing migrants’ interests at EU level Exploring the value of developing a concept of civic citizenship as a means of promoting the integration of third-country nationals, including the rights and duties needed to give immigrants a sense of participation in society Promoting research and dialogue on identity and citizenship questions |

Education || Ensure access to and completion of a full cycle of quality basic education including lower secondary, equally to boys and girls Could include early childhood development, completion of primary and lower secondary education, transition from primary to lower secondary education || Ensure comprehensive basic, transferrable and technical skills for all to fully participate in society Could include learning outcomes, availability and qualification of teachers, education to work transition, education and training opportunities for adults || Reduce the illiteracy rate amongst the adult population Could include adult and youth liter ...[+++]acy, gender gaps || Eliminate inequalities in education, taking specific measures to reach the disadvantaged individuals and groups at risk of discrimination, including disabled persons, ethnic minorities, migrants and refugees Could include disaggregation of enrolment, completion and learning outcomes by gender, rural/urban, wealth quintile, geographical location and other specific vulnerable groups according to country context, as well as cost of education || Strengthen the links between education, research and innovation and promoting knowledge creation and sharing Could include business-academia collaboration, innovative curricula and training related to green, digital and sustainable economies and societies ||

1.12 Accordingly, this Communication draws on the responses to the Commission’s 2007 public consultation, recent work by peer learning ‘clusters’ of Member State experts[11], and the latest international statistics and research, to propose an agenda for strengthening European cooperation on schools[12] by identifying the major challenges facing systems that can best be tackled by such cooperation.

Tackling educational disadvantage by prevention and lifelong learning opportunities: Within this overall challenge four particular challenges now stand out: developing co-ordinated and integrated responses to prevent early dropping out from school; learning opportunities for all of those who suffer from functional illiteracy; increasing access to lifelong learning for all marginalised persons with a particular focus on the older workers, the ageing population and groups at high risk of exclusion; increasing the focus on early child ...[+++]hood education and early and flexible individual support in all formal education and training (including universities) to break the cycle of educational disadvantage and to open up doors for second chances throughout life.