Training & Education

Competence development and lifelong learning are central elements of an integrated EMF approach to developing employment, employability and competitiveness in the European metal industry. Education and training have also become a central element of the anticipation of change in the manufacturing industry in Europe.

Lifelong learning is a horizontal approach linked to industrial policy, collective bargaining, social dialogue and company policy.

For more information please contact Isabelle Barthes, Senior Policy Adviser.

09/02/2012

Permeability between vocational education and training and higher education is strongly supported by EMF and CEEMET

“High quality vocational education and training is central to a successful manufacturing industry in Europe. In order to realise its full potential, public authorities and education and training systems must make significant progress towards increasing permeability”, CEEMET and EMF emphasize in their common statement on the importance of permeability between vocational education and training and higher education.

Education, training and life-long-learning: a ‘must’ for sustainable development

Position paper adopted by the 113^th Meeting of the EMF Executive Committee

Brussels, 24^th & 25^th November 2010

All EMF positions on Training & Education

Position papers

http://www.emf-fem.org/Areas-of-work/Position-Papers/English/Horizontal-Policies

Common grounds for referencing qualifications frameworks

The EMF is an associated partner to this EU funded project.

The overall aim of the project is to create common grounds for referencing national qualifications frameworks (NQF) and sectoral qualifications/competence frameworks (SQF) to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), thereby providing for comparability of qualifications on the basis of learning outcomes defined in terms of abilities required by work processes.

Newton Project

Within the framework of the project NEWTON – Network between Workers' Federations and their Training Organisations in Europe Now! – trade unions and their training institutions from five countries of the European Union initiated a structural dialogue about: