Stakeholder meeting on Early School Leaving and on Early Childhood Education and Care, 31 March 2014.

April 07, 2014
The European Commission reported on the results of the Thematic Working Group on ECEC and of the Thematic Working Group on ESL. The new generation of ET 2020 Working Groups was introduced, in particular the Working Group on School Policy. This WG will be working until October 2015 and will focus on two main challenges: ESL and teachers.

Nora Milotay recalled the policy context in which European cooperation on ECEC is developing and presented the outcomes of the work of the Thematic Working Group on ECEC (presentation and report: see attachments).
Katerina Kapounova presented the new programme Erasmus+, outlining the main differences with resepct to the LLL programmes (presentation: see attachement).
Annalisa Cannoni provided an overview of the work of the Thematic Working Group on ESL and presented the key messages of the final report (presentation and report: see attachments).
Participants discusses on the possible role of stakeholders in the new Open Method of Coordination process in the policy diseing and dissemination of results of European policy coordination.