THE FUTURE EUROPEAN CO-OPERATION IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Since the 2008 Spring Council underlined the necessity to attract more adults into education and training, there has been a slow progress towards meeting the established benchmark of 12,5% participation in adult learning (achievable in 2017). The goal of this paper is the presentation of the potential education and training five European benchmarks for 2020 and the Romanian comparable results. That means the adult participation in lifelong learning, low achievers in foundation skills, language learning, investment in higher education, promoting equity and citizenship These benchmark areas are relevant in European and national education policy and, the elaboration of the National Qualification Framework is very close related to them. Starting from the table of the participation in lifelong learning trends in Member States and comparing with the results in Romania, in the paper will be done an analyse of the internal causes of the huge difference and they will be identified some solution.