New Reports and publications by European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network ELGPN

In 2009-2015 ELGPN published different types of outputs. The following documents are available in Polish:

Polityka Całożyciowego Poradnictwa Zawodowego: sprawozdanie z działalności na lata 2011-2012

Rozwój polityki poradnictwa przez całe życie: Zestaw zasobów europejskich

Polityka Całożyciowego Poradnictwa Zawodowego: aktualne działania. Raport z prac Europejskiej Sieci Całożyciowego Poradnictwa Zawodowego w latach 2009-2010

The remaining publications are available in English and other national languages.

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NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION REPORT:2015 Employment and Social Developments Review: Investing in people is key to economic growth

The Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) 2015 review reveals further positive employment and social developments in the EU. However, despite recent improvements huge disparities still exist between Member States, in terms of economic growth, employment and other key social and labour market indicators. Many of these disparities are linked to an underutilisation of human capital on several fronts.

The 2015 ESDE report looks at ways of tackling these disparities, focusing in particular on job creation, labour market efficiency, social protection modernisation and investment in people.

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ERI Conference – Research in education 19-20.10.2015 Warsaw

Educational Research Institute (ERI) is organizing a conference: Research in education which summarizes two ERI system projects: “Examination of the quality and effectiveness of education and the institutionalization of research facilitiesand The development of educational value-added method for the purpose of strengthening the evaluation function of external examinations. The conference takes place on 19th-20th October 2015 at Radisson Blu Centre Hotel in Warsaw.

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Labour market institutions – efficiency index

How can the effectiveness of the labour market be measured in EU countries? Is it possible to find one, common but reliable index? And if so, what could it be? How fast unemployed can find a job or perhaps the percentage of people moving from temporary to permanent contracts? Do countries which record  success in their labour markets have anything in common?

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11th Evaluation Conference – 28-29.09.2015 Krakow

On 28th-29th September AD in Krakow takes place the 11th Evaluation Conference: ‘Evaluation of Cohesion Policy’ Results, challenges, solutions. Due to the International Year of Evaluation 2015, the organizers, i.e. Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development and Polish Evaluation Society, prepared a programme which enables deeper insight into the ex-post evaluation of cohesion policies of 2007-2013 in Europe, as well as presentations concerning the challenges and opportunities of the 2014-2020 evaluation.

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European Commission proposes new initiative for the long-term unemployed

On 17th Sept European Commission announced another proposal concerning employment and social inclusion. This time the help will be directed to the long-term unemployed group (12 months or more). The number of people in this difficult situation doubled since the 2007, and raised from 6 mln to 12 mln in 2014. Among those 12 mln as much as 60% remains unemployed for 2 years or more.

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Supporting continuous vocational education and training (CVET) – CEDEFOP’s Handbook

CEDEFOP states that during the meeting of the European Commission, EU Member States and social partners, which took place in Riga in June 2015, the participants agreed on pursuing the objectives leading to: “more attractive, inclusive, accessible and flexible adult learning”.

In 2014, just over 10% of adults (aged between 25 and 64) participated in lifelong learning, well below the EU’s target benchmark of 15% by 2020.

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