The Lisbon Reform Strategy calls for LEARNING for CHANGE

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The Lisbon Reform Strategy calls for LEARNING
for CHANGE

• The ESF is the financial arm of the Lisbon
  Strategy
• Its new features are based on the EQUAL approach
  and experience
• Learning from others
• ? promote transnational exchange and cooperation
• Learning from experimentation
• ? promote innovation

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Transnational cooperation under the ESF 2007
-2013

• Total budget of dedicated priorities 1,43
  billion
• Estimated total budget for transnational and
  interregional cooperation 3 billion
• Popular themes for transnational cooperation
• disadvantaged, discrimination, diversity
• gender and work/life balance
• LLL in firms, entrepreneurship and innovation
• promoting partnerships
• Improving human capital Reforms in education and
  training systems

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A broad range of approaches
Mobility of people

• Collbora-tive activity

Benchlearning

• Policy themes and issues
• Capacity building and governance
• Skills development

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Actors, Agendas, Actions
Lifelong learning
Discrimin- ation
entrepreneurship
migration
ESF Management
Collaboration
networking
exchange
Key stakeholders
mobility
Ultimate benefiaries
Trainers, local actors
Ultimate benefiaries
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Action plan to support transnational cooperation

• Establishment of a common information platform to
  identify and share the themes and funding
  provisions for transnational cooperation
• The creation and application of a user-friendly
  IT toolkit facilitate searches for partners,
  events, activities and results
• Establishment of a network of contact points to
  share experience, practice and tools
• Thematic networks, exchange events and policy
  fora of groups of Member States and regions
• Validating and disseminating good practices and
  results