Key competences for the development of lifelong learning in the European Union

Abstract

"This paper discusses certain developments in education policy in the European Union since the implementation of the Lisbon strategy. Greater focus on lifelong learning as a means of increasing the competitiveness of the European Union, and establishment of several new, efficient policy tools (above all the 'open method of coordination') have, in a relatively short space of time, opened up national policies in education and training, resulting in ‘Europeanisation’ of these policies and even the beginning of a process of formation of common European core skills in education and training: a model of 'key competences' that the European citizen should possess to be able to meet the challenges of the increasingly complex environment that surrounds us." (Autorenreferat, BIBB-Doku)