Vocational Education & Training
Vocational Educational & Training
Read moreSOLIDAR advocates for increase investment in education and training in accordance with the EU Social Investment Package and use the EU mobility programmes that promote vocational training (VET) so that learning and working experience can be acq...
The fundamental values of solidarity, equality, participation and social justice are the cornerstones of the process of building inclusive learning societies, where people are given opportunities to develop and to cooperate as free and equal individuals. SOLIDAR works towards creating an inclusive learning society on the grounds of openness and democracy, where all members have an opportunity to participate in lifelong and life-wide learning opportunities. This enables personal emancipation; enhances an individual’s full civic, social and economic participation in society and the development of human talents – to ensure that everyone achieves the maximum according to his or her abilities.
SOLIDAR members have a long-standing tradition of empowering people through lifelong learning, and actively promote social cohesion, active inclusion and participation in society. The network brings together workers’ education associations, trade union education institutes and popular education movements. Our members work to prioritise non-formal and informal (adult) learning as a tool to empower people to fully participate in society, in particular socio-economically vulnerable groups such as young people, migrants, people in precarious working conditions and the working poor.
The following areas will particularly increase in importance in the coming period:
As stated in SOLIDAR's New Strategic Orientation, published in June 2015.