1. ESF Committee Ad-Hoc Group on the Future of the ESF
18 May 2010
Mrs Hélène CLARK, Director DG Education and Culture, European Commission

2. The Lifelong Learning Programme
… fosters mobility and co-operation among E&T institutions in participating countries
Duration: January 2007 – December 2013
Budget: € 7 billion
Participating countries in 2010: 27 EU-Member States + Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Turkey. Croatia and Switzerland from FYROM under preparatory measures.

3. THE E&T STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK 2010 - 2020
Four broad priorities:
Lifelong learning and mobility
Quality and efficiency of E&T
Equity, social cohesion and active citizenship
Creativity and innovation, incl. entrepreneurship

4. Benchmarks, process and progress
2003: 5 benchmarks for 2010
2010: education and training systems improve slowly
Only one of 5 benchmarks reached (MST graduates)
Low achievers: decline in performance

5. The Lifelong Learning Programme
Comenius
School education
16%
Erasmus
Higher education & advanced training
46,5%
Leonardo da Vinci
Vocational education and training
25,5%
Grundtvig
Adult education
4,5%
Transversal Programme 5%
4 key activities: Policy Cooperation ~ Languages ~ ICT ~ Dissemination and exploitation of results
Jean Monnet Programme 2,5%

6. The Lifelong Learning Programme
LLP expenditure by action type
2007 and 2008
Other, 8%
Mobility, 60%
Multilateral
projects and
networks,
15%
Partnerships
and joint
educational
projects, 17%

7. Some key output data LLP 2007-2008
HE students placed in universities of firms abroad
VET students placed abroad
staff, teachers, education specialists given experience abroad
Thousands of schools involved in transnational patnerships
1200 transnational projects/networks

8. Points of overlaps between ESF and LLP
They are relatively limited and include primarily:
support to transnational mobility in some Member States
transnational cooperation and exchanges of good practices in cases where ESF or ERDF programmes provide for such cooperation.

9. Objectives for next E&T programme (2014-2020)
Substantial increase in mobility, esp. for HE students, VET, teacher&trainers, less advantaged youth (YoM)
Opening of the programme to new partners for business and civil society
Continued support for E&T OMC, e.g. EU tools (EQF, ECVET, Europass…)
More integrated approach with Youth in Action and international cooperation programmes in E&T
Better synergy with other funds

10. How to strengthen synergies and complementarities?
1) Could ESF cover learning mobility of certain target groups not covered by LLP ?
2) Could ESF help increase the number of mobility grants ?
3) Could ESF co-finance sustainable structures/networks/platforms to support mobility ?