Action: Prepare and implement a voluntary agreement on sustainable employment and career development in 2016, will include chapters on youth, older workers (including adaptation to longer careers) and female workers. 4. Education, training and lifelong learning Topic: In order to ensure competitiveness creation it is crucial to have high competence level of all employees at all levels in the sector. Therefore Lifelong Learning has been a topic on the Social Dialogue agenda from day one. Issues regarding innovation and employment have shown that workers will have to keep dealing with change. Giving employees the ability to acquire new skills and qualifications throughout their life in order to adapt to change and possible shifts in their career a major challenge. Goal: The chemical sector wants to support the EU 2020 strategy by developing actions to promote education, training and lifelong learning. With a special focus on youth employment on one side and on active ageing on the other, the sector wants to contribute actively in increasing activity rate in Europe. Actions: An apprenticeship type training will be developed in a certain number of countries with the aim – of improving the technical knowledge and the positive attitude to work for young people The sharing of best practices on the above mentioned apprenticeship will be actively organised The transfer of competences by elderly people during the latest in their career will be promoted. Possible systems of tutoring & mentoring will be explored All these actions will be monitored and evaluated at the end of the roadmap project.
Action: Prepare and implement a voluntary agreement on sustainable employment and career development in 2016, will include chapters on youth, older workers (including adaptation to longer careers) and female workers. 4. Education, training and lifelong learning Topic: In order to ensure competitiveness creation it is crucial to have high competence level of all employees at all levels in the sector. Therefore Lifelong Learning has been a topic on the Social Dialogue agenda from day one. Issues regarding innovation and employment have shown that workers will have to keep dealing with change. Giving employees the ability to acquire new skills and qualifications throughout their life in order to adapt to change and possible shifts in their career a major challenge. Goal: The chemical sector wants to support the EU 2020 strategy by developing actions to promote education, training and lifelong learning. With a special focus on youth employment on one side and on active ageing on the other, the sector wants to contribute actively in increasing activity rate in Europe. Actions: An apprenticeship – type training will be developed in a certain number of countries with the aim of improving the technical knowledge and the positive attitude to work for young people The sharing of best practices on the above mentioned apprenticeship will be actively organised The transfer of competences by elderly people during the latest in their career will be promoted. Possible systems of tutoring & mentoring will be explored All these actions will be monitored and evaluated at the end of the roadmap project.
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