Traduction de «Marché de la formation professionnelle » (Français → Anglais) :

The 23 million European SMEs would very much welcome a single positive action, like those on public procurement, vocational training, entrepreneurship, taxation and finance".

P. whereas a successful strategy to improve energy efficiency must be based on a combination of policy instruments, such as voluntary agreements combined with suitable monitoring mechanisms, mandatory efficiency standards, labelling, fiscal incentives, public procurement, professional training, best practice programmes, research etc.; emphasising at the same time that the functioning of the internal market should not be distorted as a result of such a strategy,

6. The Council emphasizes the importance of vocational education and training policies along the lines indicated above and agrees that Member States' policies should include the following aims, in line with national systems and traditions: (a) promoting investment in vocational education and training which will specifically lead to relevant, recognized or validated qualifications; (b) developing close links between school-based and enterprise-based vocational training, as coherent vocational education and training programmes in schools and enterprises are well calculated to ensure relevant training and qualifications; (c) providing better opportunities for disadvantaged young people and adults, where appropriate, to take advantage of reco ...[+++]gnized up-to- date practical vocational training, which will improve their chances of joining the labour market; (d) developing co-operation between the national and local authorities, employers and unions, enterprises and others, in accordance with national practice, on the overall updating of qualifications and specifically on initiatives designed to increase further training offers; (e) including broad-based general subjects in the vocationally-oriented training system, for the purpose of fulfilling the broader qualification requirements of the future and strengthening the mobility of the workforce; (f) improving the quality of vocational education and training, especially by improving training of trainers; (g) strengthening vocational education systems through improved guidance services, with a view to enhancing the awareness and motivation of individuals; (h) strengthening innovation and applied research, with a view to supporting modernization, adaptability and quality in vocational education and training; (i) strengthening the European dimension in initial and continuing training, in order to facilitate the mobility of young people and adults within the single market.

training policy and training strategies of enterprises in developing the skills of their workforce; management, organisation and forms of continuing vocational training in enterprises; the role of social partners in ensuring continuing vocational training in the workplace; access to continuing vocational training, its volume and content, especially in the context of economic activity and enterprise size; specific continuing vocational training measures of enterprises to improve the skills of their workforce; chances for employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to acquire new skills, and the particular needs of SMEs in ...[+++]the provision of training; the effects of public measures on continuing vocational training in enterprises; equal opportunities to access continuing vocational training; specific continuing vocational training measures for people at a disadvantage in the labour market; continuing vocational training measures geared to different types of employment contract; expenditure on training: funding levels and funding resources, incentives for continuing vocational training; evaluation and monitoring procedures.

The competent public authorities, undertakings or the two sides of industry; each within their own sphere of competence; should set up continuing and permanent training systems enabling every person to undergo retraining more especially through leave for training purposes; to improve his skills or to acquire new skills; particularly in the light of technical developments; " Considering that employers and unions in the Social Dialogue have pointed out in joint statements of 19 June 1990, 6 November 1990 and 20 December 1991 that an improvement of European vocational education and training is crucial to a strengthening of the competiti ...[+++]veness of European business enterprises, and that intensified efforts in this area play a central role in the development of regional policies and development of industry and trade; Considering that the European Parliament; in its Resolution adopted on 15 May 1992, asks Member States to ensure that training programmes lead to high-level qualifications and recommends analyses of the sandwich-type education programmes for the purposes of placing greater emphasis on vocational education and training; Referring to the Resolution of the European Parliament of 21 April 1993 on vocational training policy in the 1990s; Considering that vocational, technological and demographic developments call for improved possibilities of continued training within the framework of cohesive policies in the fields of labour market conditions and vocational education and training; Whereas co-operation in the field of vocational training should also be based on existing provisions in force in the Member States, taking into account the respective responsibilities of the competent public authorities, undertakings and social partners; while respecting the diversity of national legal system,s and practices, the powers under national law of the parties concerned and contractual autonomy; whereas the initiatives taken at national level by the Member States an ...

Structural Funds will support in particular the measures listed below: - infrastructure measures to protect the environment, in particular * reclamation of derelict industrial sites and restoration of derelict commercial areas including the necessary decontamination * investments in waste water treatment and refuse disposal * water supply and distribution - investment of the productive sector in environmental improvement and clean technologies - productive investment in connection with business start-ups, setting-up, extension, rationalisation and restructuring of enterprises which can unequivocally be related to environmental improvement - introduction of services and environmental agencies for giving advice and ...[+++]information Priority 5 - Measures to promote the development of human resource, vocational training and further training as well as employment The strategy to develop human resources and employment and to combat unemployment - in line with the White Paper - will concentrate the efforts of the ESF on the following priorities: - measures for training, retraining and lifetime learning; assistance with finding a job; help for those who have lost their jobs, are threatened with unemployment of who are in employment but need to have their qualifications brought into line with market needs and new technologies; - measures for target groups which concentrate on one of the following areas: a) improved access for young people to initial training and the transition to the labour market including Youth start measures; b) improvement in the opportunities for employment and training for unemployed persons who are difficult to place in work, long-term unemployed persons threatened with exclusion from the labour market; c) improvement of vocational qualification and (re)integration of women into the labour market in all areas of the economy. - technical assistance measures together with pilot and demonstration projects.