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RECOGNITION OF NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL COMPETENCES OF WORKERS’ REPRESENTATIVES INTRODUCTION AUTHOR Jens Martens, DGB Bildungswerk BUND Photo credits: © epic11 / istockphoto.com; © Dragana Gerasimoski / shutterstock.com 2
¬ This publication represents the fi nal result of the EU-project ‘Promoting the agenda for new skills and jobs: strengthening individual learning pathways by developing skills assessment tools for workers’ supported by European Commission DG Employment and Social Affairs to enable workers to bridge the skills mismatch and offer them individual learning pathways. The project takes place in diffi cult social and economic times; almost 84 Million people in Europe are living in poverty or at the threat of falling into poverty, of which 65 million adults. 77 Million European aged 25 – 64 (close to 30 %) still have at most lower secondary education, only 9.5 % of this age group participated in education and training in 2008. Up to 2020 the European labour force with low-level qualifi cations is projected to contract by more than 17 million. Due to ageing of the population, the re-skilling and up-skilling of adults becomes more and more important, therefore despite of the fi nancial constraints, there is a need to invest more in continuing improvement of skills, competences and knowledge of workers to increase their labour-market participation. “The same importance should be given to the proper assessment of skills, competences and knowledge of workers in order to enhance their adjustment to the labour-market needs and to develop further learning pathways.” To that end this projects seeks to develop concrete tools to strengthen the development of new opportunities and its specifi c objectives include: 1. Bring together the Trade Union Education Institutes, Workers’ Education Associations and Labour Research Institutes in order to exchange best practices and build further on existing examples that enable the upgrading and re-skilling of workers vulnerable to economic restructuring and blue collar workers through individual learning pathways. 2. Support the social partners in developing the taxonomy of skills, in particular ‘soft’ skills, enabling the recognition and validation of skills and competences gained through on-the-job training and prior learning, as well as to promote the development of an EU Skills Panorama, EU Skills Passport, European and National Qualifi cation Frameworks and other EU Skills provisions. 3. Integrates learning and career guidance; lifelong learning pathways that facilitate the transition between phases of work and learning to ensure the re-skilling of workers vulnerable to economic restructuring and blue collar workers. Special thanks go to Ellen Wild-Blom from „Tür an Tür Augsburg“ and to Prof. Dr. Peter Dehnbostel from Berlin University for Professional Studies. They contributed very much with their know-how in accounting of competences and with their interpretation of the Council Recommendation on the validation of non-formal and informal learning and they helped us signifi - cantly with the implementation of the fi ndings in the seminars and meetings. Finally we would like to thank our project partners for their contribution: Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute on Advanced Labour Studies; Lis P Knudsen, Forum for International Cooperation Denmark; Peter Wärner, ABF – Arbetarnas Bildingsförbund, Förbundsexpeditionen; Agata Patecka and Maurice Claassens, SOLIDAR. Let us contribute something to the social recognition of informal competences of our employees, so that they would achieve the same value which the formal competences is often given without questioning. Jens Martens, DGB Bildungswerk BUND 3
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<strong>RECOGNITION</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>NON</strong>-<strong>FORMAL</strong> <strong>AND</strong> IN<strong>FORMAL</strong><br />
COMPETENCES <strong>OF</strong> WORKERS’ REPRESENTATIVES<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
AUTHOR<br />
Jens Martens, DGB Bildungswerk BUND<br />
Photo credits: © epic11 / istockphoto.com; © Dragana Gerasimoski / shutterstock.com<br />
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