ln recent years the spread and dynamic of information and communications technologies (ICT) across Europe have been steadily increasing. Today the high importance of ICT for the EU economy and business, services, domestic and leisure activities is obvious. ICT developments have created an...

ln recent years the spread and dynamic of information and communications technologies (ICT) across Europe have been steadily increasing. Today the high importance of ICT for the EU economy and business, services, domestic and leisure activities is obvious. ICT developments have created an...

ln recent years the spread and dynamic of information and communications technologies (ICT) across Europe have been steadily increasing. Today the high importance of ICT for the EU economy and business, services, domestic and leisure activities is obvious. ICT developments have created an...

This volume gathers the contributions of the first day of the First international conference on the history of VET in Europe in a comparative perspective, held in Florence 11-12 October 2002. The overall theme of the conference was the different ways in which European VET has developed over the...

By 2010, Europeans will live in the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. This is the EU's strategic goal, agreed at Lisbon in March 2000. However, in 2001, almost 40 % of the population aged 25 to 64 in the E U...

The Netherlands is often cited as one of the European countries which has most successfully coped with the challenges of globalisation. The Dutch model, with govemment, social partners and other bodies involved in consensus building, has provided a framework in which the labour market has been...

This review describes recent activities and projects in identifying skill requirements in Greece. Results suggest that problems of skill mismatch are mainly due to a deficit in demand for skilled labour rather than a deficit in supply of skills. Most Greek firms - mainly small businesses - are...