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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
C0MC85) 167 final  
Brussels, 18 April 1985
COMMUNICATION BY THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL  
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THE NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Work Programme 1985-1988
COMC85) 167 final

CONTENTS
Paragraphs
I. INTRODUCTION 1 - 6
II. THE MAIN FEATURES OF COMMUNITY ACTION 7 - 9
A. The network of demonstration projects 10 - 14
B. Occupations, qualifications and training:
outline programme 15- 18
C. Exchanges and study visits 19 - 27
III. ORGANIZATION OF THE PROGRAMME 28
ANNEX:  Financial Sheet

I. INTRODUCTION
1. The economic growth of the European Community, and its industrial  
performance, depend to a large extent on the quality of its human re­
sources, their skill, enterprise and versatility. These have always  
been at a premium, but never more so than now. The Community's com­
petitive edge will be at risk and severely hampered by failure to de­
velop its human resources. And there is widespread concern throughout  
the Community about the urgent need for a much more vigorous and con­
certed effort to ensure that, both for the immediate short term as well  
as for the long term, an adequate supply of properly qualified and  
trained persons is available to meet the new challenges. The massive  
potential of the Community's labour force to contribute to and benefit  
from the wholescale introduction of new information technologies must
be a fundamental consideration in developing both community and national  
policies.
2. The effect of new technologies is pervasive; the applications of  
new technologies in old established industries are as important as the  
new technologies industries which are emerging from recent discoveries.  
Such pervasiveness means that education and training for new technologies  
must be looked at on a broad front. This is an essential element there­
for in the Commission's overall strategy. Within this approach, it is  
evident that vocational training policies must be adapted to respond
to the new and rapidly changing requirements and it is with this in  
view that the Commission now presents its work programme for the im­
plementation of the measures agreed by the Council for the period 1985-8.  
It is noted that the Commission has already approved its work programme  
for the same period regarding the introduction of new technologies in  
the school systems of the Community (C0M(84) 722).
3. The issues involved in vocational training and technological  
change, especially new information technologie^have already been  
raised within the Council of Ministers and the European Council (1).
In order to follow up these political commitments Commission staff have  
discussed this work programme with the social partners as well as with  
Directors General of Vocational Training Policy from all Member States.  
Careful account has been taken of the different views expressed on  
the most effective ways of organising the Commission's activities to  
ensure an effective effort in this field. The Advisory Committee for  
Vocational Training, tripartite in character, will continue to advise  
the Commission on the progress in implementing this work programme.
In this context the Commission considers that it is essential that  
CEDEFOP should provide technical support to the work programme and  
that due account should be taken of these factors in the three year  
work progamme of CEDEFOP for 1986-1988 as well as its immediate pro­
gramme for 1985.
(1) Council Resolution of 2/6/83 concerning vocational training resources  
relating to new information technologies (OJ N° C 166 25/6/83)
Conclusions of the Council of 7/6/84 concerning Technological Change  
and Social Adjustment (  C0M(84)6 final)
Community Medium Term Social Action Programme (OJ N° C 175 of 4/7/84)
Conclusions of European Council of 25-26/6/84 (SI(84)462)
Council Resolution on Vocational Training Policy in the European  
Community in the 1980s (OJ N° C 193 of 20/7/83).

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4. Commun i  ty action concerning vocational training in the new  
informât ■•T technologies is only one of the aspects of the overall  
strategic programme which is being developed by the Commission with
a view to ensuring that sufficient account is taken of the human re­
sources needed to meet the challenges of technological change and  
industrial innovation.
Three other complementary aspects should be taken into account:
(i) measures relating to the introduction of the new information  
technologies in the school systems (C0MC84) 722) and the  
wider efforts at Community level to improve the transition  
of young people from school to adult and working life;
(ii) the development of proposals during 1985 by the Commission  
on cooperation between industry and universities in respect  
of further training in the new information technologies ( 1), 
building on the results of the Conference organised by the  
Commission in cooperation with the Irish authorities in Galway,  
Ireland in December 1984;
(iii) the various Community initiatives to promote positive action  
on behalf of women.
5. The overall strategic programme on education and training must  
also be linked to the other Community actions in the field of new in­
formation technology, notably in industry, R&D and innovation - ESPRIT (2),  
the multiannual data-processing programme (3), FAST/II (4), the 3-
year plan for transnational infrastructure for innovation and technology  
transfer BRITE (5), RACE, and also its work on employment, the organisa­
tion of work and working conditions.
6.  The present paper sets out the broad tines of Community action  
for the period 1985-1988, at the end of which a final report must be  
presented by the Commission to the Council.
(1 ) C O M  (8 4 ) 6  final, § 1 5  an d  A n n e x  32-37 and D o c. V/1523/84, 8.10.1984
(2 ) 0 J  N ”  L  81, 23.3.1984
(3 ) 0 J  N" L  126, 12.5.1984
(4 ) O J  N °  L  293, 25.10.1983
(5 ) O J  N °  L  353, 15.12.1983

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II. COMMUNITY ACTION - THE MAIN FEATURES
7. Action undertaken at Community level should complement and
enhance Member States' action "to promote the development of a common  
approach to the introduction of new information technologies which is  
simultaneously responsive to economic and technical needs and to the  
social effects such technologies generate" C0J N° C 166/1, 25.6.1983). With  
due regard, therefore, to the role of the two sides of industry, the aim -  
as underlined in the general guidelines of the Council Resolution - is  
to integrate the new information technologies and the specific skills they  
involve into broadly-based training programmes, so as to facilitate access  
to continued employment, and even to improve employment opportunities.
This basic policy must be implemented in conjunction with certain priority  
themes of general interest, namely :
Ci) - meeting the needs of enterprises, in particular small and
medium-sized undertakings, for example by experimenting with  
new approaches aimed at familiarizing and retraining  
management in the implications and potential uses of the new  
information technologies in undertakings;
(ii) - preparing young people for working life - in particular  
those whose qualifications are inadequate - through  
training measures designed in particular to:
.  develop (content and methods) basic understanding  
of the main applications of microelectronic tech­
nology in data-processing and communications;
-  equip young people seeking to work in microelectronics
related occupations with the necessary job skills;
(ii-i) - helping skilled workers to retain or regain employment
by means of measures to retrain production and maintenance  
staff affected by the automation both of manufacturing  
processes and of management and processes in the service  
sector;
(iv) - the training and re-training of women through inno­
vative training measures aimed at facilitating their  
access to developing occupations in the field of tech  
no logy where they are traditionally underrepresented.

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8.  This training policy will, however, succeed only if, at the same  
time :
(i) there is a concerted programme of analysis, research, monitoring  
and experimentation on the effect of technological change  
on existing jobs and qualifications, and on the new jobs and  
occupations which are emerging;
(ii) intensive consultations are held with a view to forward
looking labour market management with the competent authorities  
and the two sides of industry at the various levels (in­
cluding regional) of economic decision-making, bearing in  
mind that training in the new technologies will develop  
better in an environment that is informed and aware of the  
applications and consequences of these technologies, in  
particular as regards employment and working conditions.
9. These are the general objectives to be borne in mind when defining  
the nature and operational procedures of the Community action programme  
which, according to the Council Resolution, should take the form of:
(i) the implementation of a network of demonstration projects  
designed to encourage the transfer of experience and pro­
mising innovations between Member States;
(ii) the continuing exchange of ideas and experience between
policy-makers and practitioners in defined areas of common  
interest;
(iii) an examination of vocational qualifications;
(iv) the exchange between Member States of specialists responsible  
for vocational training in new information technologies;
(v) the involvement of workers and/or their representatives in  
the process of introducing new information technologies into  
undertakings.
A. THE NETWORK OF DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
10. The network will be designed to highlight the potential of pro­
mising new approaches in the different Member States with a view to  
improving the capacity of the traning systems to be adapted to meet  
the new challenges arising from technological change and industrial  
innovation.

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1 - Themes of the network
1 1-  The Council Resolution refers to the need to give particular
attention to certain areas of common concern. These include (see § 7):
(i) ~ the needs of enterprises, especially of small and medium­
sized firms;
(ii) “ helping young people, in particular those whose qualifica­
tions are inadequate or unsuitable;
(iii) - helping skilled workers, whether unemployed or not, to
remain in or find new employment;
(iv) - the retraining of women for re-entry into employment.
1 2. Following further consultation with the Member States as pro­
vided for by the Council Resolution, it is also proposed to add the  
following four areas identified to be of common concern:
the adaptation of traditional occupations to new production,  
maintenance and management situations by means of training;
new occupations affected by the automation of production  
in manufacturing branches with intensive production methods;  
these are mainly jobs involving industrial applications  
of microelectronics (NC machine tool setter/operator/turner,  
automated production line operators and supervisors, CAD,  
etc.) and/or electronics, either in branches being re­
structured (motor vehicles, shipbuilding, steel, engineering,  
textiles and clothing, etc.), or in growth industries (e.g.  
plastics and composites, agriculture and foodstuffs);
occupations in the tertiary sector, especially office auto­
mation and communications and, more generally, the technical  
and social management of information in enterprises;
the training and the regular recycling of trainers who are  
going to provide training in relation to new information  
technologies, especially at technician and management level  
with a view to better linking such schemes developed by  
public institutions, firms or private training institutions  
to forward looking labour management.
2 - Operation of the network
1 3.  The network will operate on the basis of three objectives:
development, production and exploitation :
(i) ^he_deye logment_objiect ive
The network should have a multiplier effect on the largest  
possible number of training schemes set up in the fields select­
ed in Member States.
The network will consist of a number of demonstration projects  
which have been identified in each Member State by the Com­
mission, in cooperation with the national authorities, because  
of their innovatory potential and because they are linked  
with the mainstream of national training policy developments,  
including the recruitment and training of training instructors.(v)
(vi)
(vi i ) 
(vi i  i  )

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(  i  i  )  The_greduction_obj^eetive
Further work is required on what types of training to offer  
to the target groups referred to above, the conditions in  
which they can take advantage of the new technologies, and  
the implications for training instructors. This would be  
done in the course of the projects and should result in trans­
ferable "products". The lack of tested and proven reference  
material in this area is one of the major difficulties facing  
training organisations in the Member States.
The network will thus be used to promote joint work in depth  
on the following aspects:
.  the development of various model courses (curricula and  
modules) leading to either :
- new qualifications, or
- the integration of new technology components into more  
traditional qualifications;
.  the creation of relevant teaching tools to facilitate the  
training of instructors and the transmission of knowledge  
and skills;
.  the systematic integration of periods on-the-job and periods  
in training centres;
.  the development and use of tools for evaluation and assess­
ment ... each one should take account of the point of de­
parture of the various groups involved in the action pro­
gramme .
(iii) The_e at ion_°b e t i ve
Innovatory work undertaken to date in training for the new  
technologies has often been isolated from the mainstream of  
policy and practice, so that often the results of the work  
have not been fully exploited.
The Commission will arrange a process of evaluation of the  
projects in each Member State, which will in turn facilitate  
the transfer of experience on a Community-wide basis over a  
three-year period (1985-8). Selected in cooperation with the  
national authorities, the Commission will invite a specialised  
agency in each Member State to perform the following tasks:
- evaluate the group of reference projects w hich form s part 
of the overail network,
- report o n  the w a y s  in w hich national policies are developing 
in the light of this experimentation, an d
- participate in the organised process of exchange of ex­
perience with the national evaluators designated b y  other 
M e m b e r States.

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Inter-project visits will be arranged and financed by the  
Commission so that there can be a thorough examination by  
practitioners of the different approaches followed in the  
various Member States, thereby providing a broader basis  
for joint evaluation. From time to time, special meetings  
will be held in each Member State to examine and disseminate  
the results of the evaluation process, and at an appropriate  
stage the Commission will arrange for a Community-wide con­
certation of experience.
B. OCCUPATIONS, QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING :  OUTLINE PROGRAMME  
FOR CONCERTED RESEARCH.
14. It is necessary to increase the capacity for analysis and  
observation at Community level in respect of the impact of new tech­
nologies on employment and qualifications and, more specifically, on  
the contribution of vocational training to the preparation of human  
resources for the modernization of the industrial fabric - a subject  
discussed in November 1982 at the European Conference held in Berlin  
by the Commission, with the technical assistance of CEDEFOP (1).
A second field to be investigated, of increasing importance, concerns  
the educational strategies to be implemented and in particular, given  
the arrival of new occupations and the restructuring of traditional  
ones, the structure of training courses (e.g. the modular approach) and  
methods of teaching and validating knowledge and skills (e.g. utiliza­
tion of new technologies as a training tool).
1 5.  Preliminary work carried out for the Commission clearly  
shows that Community action in this field should consist less of  
launching a new series of studies than of a comparative analysis and  
appreciation of research work already carried out or under way in Member  
States with a view to producing a coordinated effort in the coming years  
at Community level. This is the purpose of this outline programme which,  
in respect of the various themes outlined below, will be implemented
on a cooperative basis by the Commission, linking up the research efforts  
in several Member States and giving a European dimension to the sub­
jects under study. The Commission will arrange, with the assistance  
of CEDEFOP, for the results of these various combined studies to be  
discussed and disseminated widely. Through this approach, it will be  
possible for the Commission in the coming period to build up progressively  
a systematic and continuing 'observatory' of changes in qualifications.
16. This outline programme will focus on the following set of  
priority issues :
(i) new occupations and sectors of activity with the objective
of identifying changes in family of occupations and the re­
levant consequences for training brought about by technological  
change - both in terms of new emerging occupations as well  
as the adaptation of traditional ones. In its first phase  
this continuous and comparative examination wilt focus on  
the occupations affected by the automation of production  
and services, especially involving technicians and skilled  
workers;
i1) CEDEFOP - Technological change, employment, ajali 
y e · -  '  '  r·, 25/26 November 1982.

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Cî i  >  the regional and Local management of human resources in the
framework of forward Looking Labour management in relation  
to which the Community action should contribute to a better  
understanding of the inter-relationships between local and  
regional development under the impact of new information  
technologies on the one hand and the development of related train-  
ingpolicies on the other hand. This activity - taking into  
account possible implications arising from the further en­
largement of the Community as far as training needs are con­
cerned- should be developed with a view to improving diag­
nostic skills in relation to the local and regional approach  
to problems involving the development and management of  
human resources;
(iii) the contribution of firms (or groups of firms) to on-the-job  
training insofar as the fulfilment of the training (and re­
training) needs arising continuously from technological changes  
require a better coordination between policies and actions  
developed by State and Public Agencies and those implemented  
within firms or groups of firms. In this context particular  
attention will be paid to "multi-skilling" programmes and  
more generally to in-firm training schemes involving "poly­
valent" skills. In a first phase priority will be given  
to the development of in-firm integrated schemes aimed  
both at retraining older workers and recruiting young people  
into linked work and training schemes;
(iv) the development of individualised training and open learning
approaches with the objective of identifying the potentialities  
as well as the conditions required for setting up distance­
training schemes based on new information and communication  
technologies. A key element in this activity will be to  
clarify the necessary links within such schemes between in­
dividualised training and work experience to take place in  
firms or other appropriate settings. A key product of this  
activity - next to the development of training packages -  
could be the setting up of a European data bank of training  
software;
(v) the development of modular training systems given the fact  
that retraining to master the new technologies reinforces  
the need for training approaches that are flexible enough  
to take into account previous practical experience, know-how  
and skills with the view to developing integrated training  
schemes. Such an approach - as exemplified already by the  
"unités capitalisables" in France or the "Bankkastensystem"  
in the Federal Republic of Germany - offers the opportunity  
for facilitating the design and the implementation of a  
system of credits specifically tailored to the specific  
needs of the trainees;

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Ivi) the assessment and certification of training and work ex­
perience insofar as a critical feature of the success of 
new approaches to training (both content and methods) is  
their recognition on the labour market with the difficulty  
that tneir innovative character does quite often conflict  
with traditional systems that are very frequently based upon  
or derived from formal education. This is especially true  
when considering, in relation to technological change, the  
need to rapidly adapt and adjust training. This issue is  
equally crucial in the context of the Community's effort to  
establish the necessary conditions for free movement of workers;
(vii) the training of management, workers and/or their representatives  
in the process of introducing new information technologies into  
firms with the view to improving their opportunity to parti­
cipate efficiently in the examination of techno logi cal choices
wi thin fi rms or groups of fi rms.  Such a training does appear in­
deed as a necessary condition for enabling a productive dia­
logue between social partners to take place and thus pro­
viding for fully developed training and retraining courses  
for those affected by these changes in employment and working  
conditions;
(viii) the training of trainers taking into account the need to  
improve both qualitatively and quantitatively the stock of  
trainers to be involved in developing innovative approaches  
regarding training content and materials as well as the role  
to be played in such a strategy by firms, private and public  
bodies.
17. As indicated above, this cooperative programme will be deve­
loped progressively, taking into account the work already in­
itiated by the Commission. It will be established on a co­
operative basis given the priorities already identified by  
the Commission on the advice of the Directors General for  
Vocational Training and the social partners. Through studies,  
seminars and exchanges of experience involving, where approp­
riate, technical assistance, the Commission intends to con­
tribute to a process of pooling of the results of research  
throughout the Community.
C. EXCHANGES AND STUDY VISITS
1g. An important part of the common vocational training strategy
is the agreement by the Council to establish a new Community programme  
of study visits for "persons responsible for vocational training in new  
technologies" ( 1)  and other "vocational training specialists" ( 2).
The 1985 budget of the European Centre for Vocational Training (CEDEFOP)  
includes a sum for this purpose, and the Commission hopes that the pro­
gramme may expand subsequently.
(1) JO N° C 166/1, 25.6.83
(2) JO N° C 193/2 ,  20.7.33

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Basic principles
19. The study visits programme is a policy tool to assist in the
implementation of the Community's vocational training strategy. Under  
the terms of the Council resolution adopted in July 1983, the Commission  
was invited to develop existing arrangements for the dissemination and  
exchange of information and experience between training authorities and  
practitioners, particularly in the case of promising training initiatives.
20. The programme therefore has three main objectives :
Ci) to enable vocational training specialists to improve their  
understanding of specific aspects of vocational training  
policy and programmes in other Member States;
(ii) to generate continuing exchanges of advice, ideas and in­
formation between all those participating in the programme,  
including both the visitors and their hosts;
(iii) to enrich the flows of information between the Member States  
and at Community level. This would be especially useful in  
areas of innovatory activity related to Community policy  
priorities in the field of vocational training.
21. The Commission has decided to launch a single, integrated
scheme which draws together the commitments contained in both Council  
Resolutions. Such an arrangement will be more cost-effective and easier  
to administer efficiently. The scheme will thus provide the framework  
for a variety of themes to be examined through study visits and, it is  
proposed, will in particular cover the following:
- vocational training and the introduction of new techno­
logies;
- the vocational training of young people in the context
of employment initiatives, especially at the local level.
In setting these 2 priorities, it will be important to ensure that grant-  
holders are encouraged to examine measures for the promotion of equality  
of opportunity and the participation of women in training programmes  
leading to a wider choice of possible careers.
A s  a  principle, equal participation of m e n  and w o m e n  in the p rogram m e 
should b e the objective.
A s  regards training in the n e w  information technologies specifically, 
an d  also w ith a  view  to the results of the feasibility study carried 
out for the C om m ission, the following them es have been indicated as 
possible subjects of enquiry b y  grantholders :
(i) automation in the m otor vehicle industry and/or mechanical 
engineering, insofar as these sectors are undergoing m ajor 
restructuring, with implications for wide-ranging changes 
in em ploym ent and substantial developments in qualifications;

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training of technicians (e.g. in chemical and pharmaceutical  
industries, printing industries, etc.) who constitute an  
essential part of an employment policy which highlights  
skilled training;
training of the executive and management staff of small and  
medium-sized firms in the new information technologies, and  
more generally new companies in the service sector facing major  
expansion due tonew information technologies;
(iv) training of worker representatives called upon to participate  
in the design and organisation of training programmes to  
facilitate the introduction of new information technologies in  firms.
Management of scheme
22- The Commission has invited CEDEFOP to administer the scheme
in view of CEDEFOP's important role as the organisation set up at Com­
munity level to provide, inter alia, technical assistance to the Com­
mission in promoting exchanges of ideas and information in the vocational  
training field. On the basis of this arrangement, it is envisaged that  
each year the main lines of the scheme, in particular the priority themes  
to be covered, would be reviewed by the Commission in the light of an  
annual report on the scheme to be presented to the Management Board of  
CEDEFOP.
23. It is envisaged that the themes chosen initially should be
regarded as the priority themes in respect of 1985 and 1986, allowing  
the possibility of change in respect of 1987. On the basis of experience  
during 1985-7 inclusive, a review of the objectives and modalities of  
the scheme would be initiated by the Commission in cooperation with the  
CEDEFOP Management Board. This three year period coincides fortuitously  
both with the duration of the new Community action programme and the  
next three year planning period for the CEDEFOP work programme.
Participants
24- In making their selection of candidates, Member States will
be invited to ensure that participants chosen can act as "multipliers",  
that is, they should be persons who exercise responsibility at a certain  
level within Member States and whose expertise can be used to increase  
the awareness of others of policy and practice in other Member States.
It is also important that they should cover all geographical areas of  
each Member State - as it is important that visits should be offered in  
each Member State.
25. So far as numbers of grantholders are concerned, it is anti­
cipated that in 1985 a total of 120 grants could be awarded.

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Reporting/Exp loi tation of Results
26- It is planned that a collective de-briefing session will be
organised in each Member State for those returning from visits, in which  
the national authorities and the social partners would also participate  
as appropriate. This would concentrate on what participants from that  
Member state had learnt elsewhere in the Community, but could also take  
into account the findings of visitors to that country from other Member  
States.
Every one or two years the authors of the most interesting study visit  
reports would be invited to a seminar to be organised by CEDEFOP, so  
as to identify ways of further documenting the experience derived from  
visits abroad. In these different ways, it is envisaged that CEDEFOP  
will progressively extend its capacity as a key resource centre which  
can cue interested practitioners to promising experiences elsewhere  
in the Community.
Hi. ORGANIZATION OF THE PROGRAMME
27. To monitor the development of this work programme, and in
particular to ensure the efficient management of the evaluation arrange­
ments and to plan the concerted research effort, the Commission will  
arrange to meet regularly with a group consisting of the national  
policy coordinators designated in this field by the Member States and  
the representatives of the social partners. The task of this advisory  
group will be to he Ip form strong links between the Community's activities  
and national policy initiatives, and to advise on ways of disseminating  
the results and experience as widely as possible. The group would  
thus lend its technical support to a coordinated development process  
which alone is capable of maximising the effectiveness of the actions.  
CEDEFOP will be invited to give its technical assistance to this end.
In addition, the Commission will continue to inform its Advisory Com­
mittee for Vocational Training of its plans and progress in this field.  
The Advisory Committee, tripartite in character, can also play an in­
valuable role in reviewing the implementation of this work programme  
and in disseminating the experience derived from joint action, and  
assisting in the dialogue between the social partners on the implica­
tions for training policy within the private sector.

FICHE FINANCIEREANNt A
Ligne budgétaire concernée  
B 6331
Base légale
Résolution du Conseil du 19 juin 1983 relative aux mesures concernant  
la formation professionnelle et les nouvelles technologies de l'in­
formation (JO N° C 166 - 25.6.1983).
Pour mémoire:
- C0MC84) 6 final: "Changement technologique et mutations sociales"
- Conclusions des Conseils "Education" (4.6.1984) et "Affaires Sociales"  
(7.6.1984), publiées au JO N· C 184 (11.7.1984).
Proposition de classification  
Dépenses non obligatoires.
Description et justification de l'action
4.1. Objectifs
- contribuer au développement d'actions de formation profession­
nelle intégrant les technologies nouvelles face aux besoins
en main-d'oeuvre qualifiée et à la nécessaire rénovation  
des tissus industriels dans la Communauté.
4.2. Pe£sonnes_concernées
- formateurs et responsables de systèmes de formation, publies  
et privés
- personnes formées.
Nature de la dépense et mode de calcul
5.1. Nature
Frais et échanges d'experts et de consultants, séminaires, col­
loques et rapports, subventions, prestations de service, frais  
de collecte et de diffusion de l'information et de données d'ex­
périence, analyses comparatives et études.
5.2. Calcul
voir tableau ci-après.
Incidence financière de l'action sur les crédits, d 1 intervention
6.1. Echéancier (CE/CP)
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988450.Q00
500.000
755.000 
860-000
930.000

-  2 -
6.2. Part_du_f i^ancement communautaire  
100%
6.3. Modalités_de_finançement_gour 1985
Une dotation de 500.000 ECU a été retenue par Le Conseil  
(2ème lecture).
7. Observation
Incidence financière sur les crédits de personnel et de fonction­
nement courant " '  -----------
8.1
. Personnel^néçessaire_dès 1985
2 A4/A5 
1 B4/B5 
1 C4/C5
dont actuellement  
1/2 A4
à trouver par redéploiement interne, soit par l'octroi de nouveaux  
postes dans le cadre de leur disponibilité et en tenant compte  
des priorités de la Commission.
8.2. )
8.3. J
8.4. ;voir budget de fonctionnement.

Budget prévisionnel (en milliers d'ECU)
1985 1986 1987 1988
A. LES RESEAUX DE PROJETS DE DEMONSTRATION
(i) évaluation des projets du réseau pm(1) pm(1) pm(1) pmd)
(ii) coordination entre les projets du réseau et les
stratégies mises en oeuvre dans les Etats membresII 1 1 I I 1 1
(iii)Conférence européenne changement technologique/  
quali fi cations/formation 55 65 30 -
55 65 30-
PROGRAMME - CADRE :  NOUVEAUX METIERS, QUALIFICATIONS, FORMATIONS  
(Colloques, échanges d'expérience, études, etc...)
(i)les nouveaux métiers et les secteurs d'activité 55 60 70 75
(ii)les NT et la gestion locale et régionale des  
ressources humaines 65 75 80
(iii)la FP aux NT intégrée aux entreprises 60 75 80 80
(iv)le développement de la formation à distance 100 120 140 160
(v)les systèmes modulaires et la formation aux NTI 95 100 110 135
(vi )la validation des acquis professionnels - 50 70 90
(vi i  )la formation des employeurs, des travailleurs et  
leurs représentants 50 70 80 90
(vi i  i  )les NTI et la formation des formateurs 50 80 90 120
410 620 715 830
LA DIFFUSION DES RESULTATS ET DE L'INFORMATION 35 70 115 150
TOTAL GENERAL =MJM _2§Q
d) les opérations d'évaluation seront assurées dans le cadre des  
dispositions de l'Article 3.2 de la Décision relative au Fonds  
Social Européen.