Europe 2020 – 7 Flagship initiatives for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Inclusive growth – a high-employment economy delivering economic, social and territorial cohesion. How will the EU boost inclusive growth?
Through 2 flagship initiatives: 1. Agenda for new skills and jobs for individuals – helping people acquire new skills, adapt to a changing labour market and make successful career shifts collectively – modernising labour markets to raise employment levels, reduce unemployment, raise labour productivity and ensuring the sustainability of our social models 2. Agenda for new skills and jobs - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion. This initiative is how the Commission will help the EU reach its employment target for 2020: 75% of the working-age population (20-64 years) in work.
Launched in 2010, it is part of the EU's overall strategy – Europe 2020 – promoting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the next 10 years and beyond. The Agenda also contributes to achieve the EU's targets to get the early school-leaving rate below 10% and more young people in higher education or equivalent vocational education (at least 40%), as well as to have at least 20 million fewer people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion by 2020. How? The Agenda presents a set of concrete actions that will help: European platform against poverty and social exclusion - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion.
Definition The European platform against poverty and social exclusion is one of seven flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
It is designed to help EU countries reach the headline target of lifting 20 million people out of poverty and social exclusion. The platform was launched in 2010 and will remain active until 2020. Policy response The Platform is based on five areas for action: Delivering actions across the whole policy spectrum such as the labour market, minimum income support, healthcare, education, housing and access to basic banking accounts. The Europe 2020 poverty target acts as an incentive for developing a stronger focus on social issues each year in the European Commission's Annual Growth Survey. These policy responses are in line with the social investment approach. Key actions. Smart growth - knowledge and innovation as drivers of our future growth.
Youth on the move. Move to achieve – degree, new job, training, your own business.
Every year the European Union supports more than 400,000 young people to work , train and study abroad. This website lists a complete range of EU tools to help your dreams become reality. More about Youth on the Move The European Union offers grants for students, teaching professionals and staff to study or work abroad. Click here to find out more! Learning isn't limited to schools.
Click here to find out more! Gaining work experience in another country adds an extra dimension to your CV. Find out more about how you can train abroad! Looking for a job somewhere in Europe? Many tools are at your disposal. Digital Agenda for Europe. Digital Agenda Scoreboard/Data. Innovation Union.
24 April 2014 ONE Conference Brussels 2014: Policies (R)Evolution and Every European Digital, Brussels The Future has begun.
Member States and regions must lose no time in preparing the next generation of EU programmes for growth, says Commissioner Hahn after MEPs' vote on radical reform of EU Regional Policy in July 2013. The new programming period brings new investment budgets for Member States, seeking synergies between Regional Policy and Horizon 2020 in order to maximise the innovation opportunities.
Innovation Union Information and Intelligence System - I3S - European Commission. HORIZON 2020. Sustainable growth - for a resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy. How will the EU boost sustainable growth?
Through 2 flagship initiatives: 1. Resource-efficient Europe To support the shift towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy, our economic growth must be decoupled from resource and energy use by: reducing CO2 emissions promoting greater energy security. reducing the resource intensity of what we use and consume 2. An industrial policy for the globalisation era The EU needs an industrial policy that will support businesses – especially small businesses – as they respond to globalisation, the economic crisis and the shift to a low-carbon economy, by: supporting entrepreneurship – to make European business fitter and more competitive covering every part of the increasingly international value chain – from access to raw materials to after-sales service.
This policy can only be devised by working closely with business, trade unions, academics, NGOs and consumer organisations. > All Europe 2020 flagship initiatives Top Natural resources. Ressource efficient Europe. The flagship initiative for a resource-efficient Europe under the Europe 2020 strategy supports the shift towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy to achieve sustainable growth.
Natural resources underpin our economy and our quality of life. Continuing our current patterns of resource use is not an option.
Industrial competitiveness - Enterprise and Industry. Industry must be placed centre stage if Europe is to remain a global economic leader.
This is the core message of the Communication on "An integrated industrial policy for the globalisation era" adopted by the European Commission on 28th October 2010 on the initiative of Vice-President Antonio Tajani.