SMOC - Soft Open Method of Coordination : : from Prevalet / / Joint Progress Report of Regions on the Implementation of European Lifelong Learning Strategies : Towards Multilevel Governance.

• Superior document: Proceedings e report
• TeilnehmendeR: Federighi, Paolo,; Torlone, Francesca,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Proceedings e report (Firenze University Press)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

Seven European Regional Governments, together with Earlall and universities and research centres, have undertaken to refine a first draft of a Joint Progress Report of Regions on Implementation of European Lifelong Learning Strategies in the perspective of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate the usefulness and need to make an instrument available to European Regional Governments that helps to understand and evaluate the educational conditions of the regional population when compared with other regions. The Report shows how, over the decade, all the Regional Governments have undertaken to adapt training systems to the demographic dynamics characterised by the general ageing of the population and by migratory phenomena. Simultaneously the Report also shows the need for urgent improvements in some fields where the impact of policies is still too modest and where the risk of stagnation must be dealt with (for example, lifelong learning policies and NEET reduction).

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- 0. FOREWORD -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RESULTS IN PARTICULAR POLICY AREAS -- 2.1. Participation in Education -- 2.2. Participation rates of 4-years-olds in education at regional level -- 2.3. Pupils and Students in education -- 2.4. Youth Employment -- 2.5. Participation in lifelong learning -- 3. ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION -- 3.1. Interregional cooperation: quality and effectiveness through the Soft Open Method of Coordination (SMOC) -- 3.2. Quality guarantees -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 4.1. Contextualisation of the SMOC partners and their respective projects and planning -- 4.2. Severozapaden -- 4.3. Syddanmark -- 4.4. País Vasco -- 4.5. Toscana -- 4.6. Steiermark -- 4.7. Västsverige -- 4.8. Wales.