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Its objectives to emphasize the perspective of civil society, knowledge transfer and create a link between research practice and policy of Education&Training. EILL will have a coordinator, a permanent team of editors, 27 national correspondents, an advisory council and national experts and practitioners and it will be supported by an essentially digital structure. In Brussel  members will decide on the funding model.

Download the public presentation of EILL.

The survey is part of the research activities of the Project GREAT (http://projectgreat.org/). With this survey the partnership is looking to gather information from industry and learning organisations about the existence and the use of games for learning and training within the partnership countries: Portugal, Austria, Italy, Romania, Turkey as well as in all European countries.

The survey link will be active till 20th of January. Results will be available from the project web page. The survey questionnnaire is confidential and your data will only be used within the stated objective. It will take approximately 10 minutes of your time to complete the survey.

GREAT Game-based Research in Education and Action Training is an EU Leonardo da Vinci funded project (contract number 2011-1-PT1-LEO05-08600) that provides a methodology and a way to use Gamebased Learning (GBL) in teaching-learning processes by transferring innovative methodologies. It started in October 2011 and will last two years.

Target groups: Trainers and Teachers; Training providers; Training VET and higher educational organizations.

During the meeting ETDF Assembly was presented the view of HAN on the field of training and human development. Download document here.

With the Resolution on investing in youth: five clear demands in the crisis, the European Youth Forum stresses the need to invest in youth in order to ensure Europe's future. The resolution raises five key points; that alternatives to austerity measures, putting the human being at the centre, need to be found, that increased public support for youth policy is needed, that focus should be moved from cutting to investing in a common future, that the EU budget should be revised, reflecting the priority of an EU that aims at relaunching its future on the basis of innovation, cohesion and youth and that a diversification of the incomes of the Union budget is necessary.

The Position Paper on Entrepreneurship addresses the main issues affecting young people's ability to enter into the world of entrepreneurship and reaffirms the need for stable, enabling, and supportive environments through which youth can enter the field of entrepreneurship, and adds its voice to those affirming the innovative and impactive nature of the entrepreneurship, and believes that this will only be made stronger through a higher representation of young people within the entrepreneurial field.

The Resolution on the rights-based approach to volunteering takes a further step in the process of developing a rights-based approach to volunteering. The Youth Forum, as a member of the EYV2011 Alliance, declares its support for the Policy Agenda on Volunteering in Europe (PAVE) and as the first European organisation commit to its implementation in the next years to ensure a lasting legacy of the European Year of Volunteering 2011. The resolution calls upon all relevant stakeholders in the area of volunteering in Europe to endorse and implement the PAVE and the rights-based approach by working on the development of the charter of the rights and responsibilities of the volunteer 

For any further information please contact youthforum@youthforum.org

Furthermore, on 23 November 2011 the European Commission presented its proposal for the future European programme in the field of Education and Training.

This new programme, called "Erasmus for All", will run from 2014 to 2020, replacing the present Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 and its present sectoral programmes (including Grundtvig for adult learning) as well as other current programmes such as Youth in Action. The proposal has now been submitted to the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament, who will discuss the proposal - as regards both its content and its budget - and will take the final decision in due course. As in the case of the other sectors, the Commission's proposal has significant implications for adult learning. These include notably the following:

-       the future programme would continue to provide support for all key sectors of education and training; these include specifically non-vocational adult learning (defined as in the present LLP to cover formal, non-formal and informal adult learning) as well as continuing vocational training;

-       a significant increase in the budget is proposed by the Commission for the programme as a whole, and also specifically for non-vocational adult learning;

-       the programme would no longer be structured according to the main education and training sectors, such as adult learning, but rather according to the types of activity to be supported: mobility (in the case of adult learning: mobility of adult education staff), cooperation between organisations to generate innovation and improve the quality of provision, and support for policy development and reform;

-       this means that the sectoral programmes would not continue in their present form;

-       nonetheless, for communication purposes, users of the programme would be at liberty to make use of sector-related terms, including "Erasmus-Training" when referring to activities supported under the programme in the areas of vocational education and training and non-vocational adult learning, i.e. the sectors currently addressed by the Leonardo da Vinci and Grundtvig programmes.

Full information about the Commission's proposal is available at http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus-for-all/index_en.htm

Particular attention will be paid to innovative and creative solutions which set new standards of best practice in the HRD aspects of people management. The deadline for submission has been extended to Feb. 29th, 2012.

To know more, read here or contact IFTDO General Secretary, Mr. Uddesh Kohli at  ukkohli@yahoo.co.in