The Future of VET: Building a Common European vision. New Erasmus Programme

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1 The Future of VET: Building a Common European vision New Erasmus Programme ECVET Forum, Sofia, Bulgaria, 14 June 2018 Jan Varchola, Unit E3 - Apprenticeships, VET and Adult learning, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion European Commission

2 Challenges Example: Genetics Automation Artificial intelligence Man-robot cooperation Sharing economy

3 Challenges Migration Ageing and shrinking workforce Globalisation

4 What future skill needs? The WEF view Job families in decline and on the rise

5 What future skill needs? The "futurists" view TOP 5 MOST COMMON JOBS TODAY Retail salesperson Cashiers Office clerks Food and serving workers Nurses 5 COMMON JOBS 2040 Robot Sherpas maintenance, monitoring, operation techs, suppliers, programmers Data Junkies detective, frackers, analytics, monitors, ethicists, trust officers Drone command crews command center operators, traffic flow optimizers, maintenance and repair, aerial security teams Personal health maestros Anti aging practitioners, brain augmentationists, Nurses, aging assistants, Gene sequencers AI-Enhanced Freelancers AI freelance coaches and trainers, AI-enhanced artists, AI-enhanced cyber security experts In:

6 Challenges: to prepare for what?

7 Political commitment 1 st Principle Education, training and life-long learning Everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society and successfully manage transitions in the labour market.

8 Examples of EU policy responses ET 2020 Working Groups Upskilling Pathways for lowskilled/low qualified adults Joint Qualifications in VET European Vocational Skills Week Centres of vocational Excellence

9 Policy implications for future VET systems Digitalisation Empowerment 21 st century skills From processes to results Result-oriented VET Systematic stakeholder participation Shared & complex governance Rebalancing costs & equity Investments and cost-sharing Skills anticipation Rapid reaction VET Efficiency and synergy Integration of ivet & cvet to include up and reskilling Internationalisation Teachers and trainers Validation

10 FINLAND The future of VET?

11 Multiannual Financial Framework - structure

12 Multiannual Financial Framework Investing in People Investing in People, Social Cohesion & Values cluster - 139,5 billion ESF billion, brings together: European Social Fund, Youth Employment Initiative, Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, Employment and Social Innovation programme Health programme Erasmus+ doubling the budget to 30 billion (3x mobility targets) European Solidarity Corps increase to 1,26 billion Creative Europe and the new Justice, Rights & Values Programmes

13 The EC proposal main principles and ideas Making Erasmus+ more inclusive Promoting European identity and fostering active participation in society Supporting an ambitious international dimension Further simplification Synergies with other programmes More ambition: proposes to double the budget from EUR 14.7 to EUR 30 billion (25,9 for education and training out of which 5,23 for VET)

14 Key novelties in the proposal of interest to VET Introducing mobility for people on the labour market (continuing VET), to support their upskilling and reskilling Rebalancing of the mix between long duration VET mobility (ErasmusPRO) and short duration mobility Opening the international dimension to VET mobility of learners and staff Support for the set-up of "Centres of vocational excellence" Introducing small-scale partnerships that will strengthen the participation of small organisations by introducing simplified access procedures Opening access to "Jean Monnet" actions Increase the key targets: triple the number of VET learners and staff that will be given the opportunity to go abroad: from to around 2,3 million people

15 Key novelties in the proposal of interest to AE Introducing mobility for people on the labour market (continuing VET), to support their upskilling and reskilling Introducing small-scale partnerships to strengthen the participation of small organisations by introducing simplified access procedures Enlarging the concept of "Staff" in mobility actions to include multipliers with leverage on guiding/implementing training, e.g. HR staff in companies Increase the key targets: multiply by six the number of staff that will be given the opportunity to go abroad: from to placements

16 "Centres of Vocational Excellence" Supporting regional development and smart specialisation Combining i-vet and c-vet Developing Joint VET curricula Business-education partnerships Project based learning Knowledge triangle Innovative teaching and training Guidance and validation Internationalisation strategies to foster trans-national mobility Business incubators, Innovation hubs, Technology diffusion

17 Thank you! European Alliance for Apprenticeships European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships European Vocational Skills Week Erasmus+ Upskilling Pathways