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The European Skills Agenda
The European Skills Agenda is a five-year plan to help individuals and businesses develop more and better skills and to put them to use, by:
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  • strengthening sustainable competitiveness
  • ensuring social fairness, putting into practice the first principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights: access to education, training and lifelong learning for everybody, everywhere in the EU
  • building resilience to react to crises, based on the lessons learnt during the COVID-19 pandemic

​The future of Europe is a climate-neutral environment with important digital transformations. These are changing the way we work, learn, take part in society and lead our daily lives.

It is therefore urgent to seize these opportunities and we need to help citizens develop the right skills.

The Covid 19 pandemic has accelerated this need, as millions of people in the EU have lost their jobs or suffered a significant loss of income. Many will need to acquire new skills and move on to new jobs in a different sector of the economy. Others will need to improve skills to keep their jobs in a new work environment. For young people, entering the labor market could be very challenging.


​The new European Skills Agenda builds upon the ten actions of the Commission’s 2016 Skills Agenda and It also links to the European Digital Strategy, the Industrial and Small and Medium Enterprise Strategy, the Recovery Plan for Europe
 and the actions to support for youth employment
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Individual Learning Accounts
In order to concretise this will, on 10 December 2021, the Commission presented a Proposal for a Council Recommendation on Individual Learning Accounts, asking Member states to create individual account for professional training.

​The final decision is still in the hands of the Council, after at the last meeting on 3 June 2022 Poland and Hungary vetoed the mentions of "gender equality" instead of "equality between men and women".
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In 2021, beh set-up 6 executive agencies implementing EU programmes in the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF).
Among them EACEA, the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. The Agency in charge of Culture and Education. Concerning Education,
Through its funding programmes, it gives people across Europe and the world the opportunity to:
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✓ work together on common projects
✓ expand their professional and personal networks
✓ learn about European cultural diversity
✓ discover their rights and responsibilities as citizens
✓ develop their professional skills and expertise