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Mr President, as I said to Mr Sifunakis, this is a special group of reports confirming that cultural education gets a momentum in these discussions. I would first of all like to express my gratitude to Mrs Trüpel of the Committee on Culture and Education, but also to the other committees involved in this report because others were engaged, and also to the political groups for their constructive discussions with the Presidency and with the Commission that have led us to the agreement on this recommendation on key competences.
All institutions have made efforts in order to find a balanced text and to allow a first reading agreement. We all agreed on the importance of this proposal for European citizens and for developing consistent and comprehensive lifelong learning strategies which should help Europe to fulfil its goal of becoming a Europe of knowledge, a knowledge-friendly Union.
The purpose of this recommendation is to identify and define the skills that everyone needs for living, learning and working in a knowledge society. It covers the traditional skills such as literacy and information communication technologies – digital grammar – but it also goes beyond them by including skills which are important for citizenship, for living together in more and more varied societies. I believe that this recommendation after approval should be translated as quickly as possible into concrete measures in order to help people in their studies and training.
Our aim is to improve citizens’ employability, job opportunities and chances for the future. I think that a lot of work was done, especially by Mrs Trüpel and her colleagues, to analyse, discuss and amend our initial proposal. As a result of the successful negotiations, I think a number of clarifications and improvements have been made, while keeping the text short and concise. I think that the recommendation now better addresses the literacy problem and the need for equal opportunities, the need for procedures to validate skills and to evaluate achievements.
Target groups now include those with low skills and specific groups such as people returning to work; moreover, a number of definitions of competences have been clarified. This report, together with some other reports and with the programme which we will have from New Year 2007 for lifelong learning, could create much better conditions for the value of knowledge, for the value of qualifications and for a knowledge-friendly Europe. I appreciate the strong support in this Parliament – whether we speak about the programme or legislative tools – for education and learning and training policies.
I would like to thank you all for your cooperation in achieving this base for a recommendation and also I look forward to further support when we come to implementation."@en1
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