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UIL was invited to participate in the European High-level Meeting on Skills Anticipation in Adult Learning (EMSAAL) held from 12–14 September 2012 in Turin, Italy. EMSAAL aims to create a forum for knowledge exchange and the possible discovery of new approaches. The objective of this meeting was to identify mechanisms for effective skills anticipation in the adult labour force and ways of feeding back relevant information into the design of adult learning systems.
The three day meeting resulted in a series of recommendations to be addressed by each country. These include measures for
- Effectively coordinating the involvement of different stakeholders,
- Adapting adult learning systems to match labour provision with labour requirements, taking into account skills-needs on the sectoral and sub-sectoral levels, and
- Creating and maintaining national databases of adult learning research to apply this research to adult education programmes
EMSAAL was organised by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization and supported by Grundtvig programme accompanying measures funding. More than 85 participants from 27 European countries, among them decision-makers, national training authorities, representatives of public and private adult learning institutions labour market observatories, and universities, attended the meeting.
