Translation of "Lebenslange bildung" in English

Of course, for these we need lifelong learning and also lifelong vocational training.

Lifelong education and training are playing a central role in the advent of the knowledgebased society.

It is in this role that Lifelong education can play an essential role in the advancement of equal opportunities.

Lifelong education, serving lifelong learning is on the policy agenda of many industrialised countries.

In the White Paper, the stress was put on "lifelong learning and continuing training" .

Goal 4 calls for inclusive, equal, high-quality and lifelong education for all.

That’s why lifelong education in art and culture is a decisive factor in cultural policy.

Education, formal or informal, needs to continue through life as part of ‘personal growth’.

The right to employment and to lifelong individual and vocational training necessitates the implementation of full employment policies.

Finally, I would like to say that the best investment is an investment in the education of the young generation, and I mean lifelong education.

Some proposals are, admittedly, based on obvious common sense such as lifelong learning, better coordination of social security systems or the transferability of pension rights.

We are striving to create the systems, conditions, strategies and programmes for lifelong education in the Member States, and to ensure participation and a real place for people within this system.

Lifelong learning and training has therefore become an indispensable factor that states, educational bodies and the public themselves can no longer underestimate.

The same applies to the priorities of employment, social integration and lifelong learning - highly important objectives that have been set, but whose realisation has foundered on the cold logic of the stability pact, on the dogma of liberalisation.

This has nothing to do with a policy that provides all citizens with lifelong learning based on their potential and their aspirations.

It is, as Mr Schulz said, held back by a tiny financial perspective and by anaemic growth within the eurozone, as well as by a flagrant lack of investment – both at European and Member State level – in the universities, research and innovation and lifelong learning.

From this point of view, the calls for better management of human resources, for investment in lifelong education and training are extremely important, and they must be heeded not only by the public authorities in these particular cases, but by all the social partners, particularly companies, because they have a major responsibility in this area.

I support the proposal contained in the resolution which seeks to include the right to lifelong training in the Charter of Fundamental Rights!

This is the only way in which we can build a society geared towards lifelong education and training, at the root of which is ensuring that our citizens are knowledgeable and well-informed.

In all countries lifelong education and training is also a prerequisite for the participation of older persons in employment.

Universal pre-school education would enhance long-term growth, as would a much greater emphasis on lifetime adult education (my addition), possibly via online courses.

That objective could be reflected through stress on the factors contributing to competitiveness such as access, the diversification of the productive structure, the knowledge society, innovation, R & D, the environment, employment, social integration and education and lifelong training, particularly in a context of economic and social restructuring stemming from the globalisation of the economy.

At stake is a horizon beyond, the overall significance of universities for lifelong learning education and intellectual life, for society, for civilisation.

Without computers in our schools, without first-rate, life-long education and training to give us a skilled, flexible workforce and keep older workers in the labour market, without research into world-beating products and clean technologies, without the stimulus to help business turn knowledge into commercial opportunities, none of our targets are achievable.

A new generation of agreements emerged in March this year with the common framework of action on lifelong learning and the agreement on teleworking signed last July.

The right of each person to lifelong training would enable all young people to acquire, by means of training vouchers, initial educa­tion and/or training later on.