1. Informal ESF TWG 11 November 2010 Brussels Europe 2020 Strategy
Egbert Holthuis
DG Employment and Social Affairs

2. Europe 2020: 3 interlinked priorities
1.) Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation
2.) Sustainable growth: promoting a more efficient, greener and more competitive economy
3.) Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion

3. Europe 2020: delivering reforms
3 thematic priorities
5 EU headline targets – translated into nat’l ones
7 flagship initiatives – EU & national action
Mobilising existing EU instruments:
Single market ;
External dimension
SGP
EU and national Budgets & new financing instruments

4. Europe 2020: new governance
Lead role for the European Council
Extend partnership to regions, social partners & civic society
COM and European Council monitoring ...
1.) Thematic - combining priorities and headline targets
2.) Country - Member States strategies to meet targets
Country-specific recommendations & policy warnings
Simultaneous reporting under Europe 2020 and SGP – but keeping instruments separate & maintaining integrity of SGP
Reinforce macro surveillance

5. Europe 2020: 5 EU headline targets (translated into national targets)
By 2020:
75 % employment rate (% of population aged years)
3% investment in R&D (% of EU’s GDP)
“20/20/20” climate/energy targets met (incl. 30% emissions reduction if conditions are right)
< 10% early school leavers & min. 40% hold tertiary degree
20 million less people should be at risk of poverty

6. Europe 2020: 7 flagship initiatives underpin the targets
Smart Growth
Sustainable Growth
Inclusive Growth
Innovation
« Innovation Union »
Climate, energy and mobility
« Resource efficient Europe »
Employment and skills
« An agenda for new skills and jobs”
Education
« Youth on the move »
Competitiveness
« An industrial policy for the globalisation era »
Fighting poverty
« European platform against poverty »
Digital society
« A digital agenda for Europe »

7. Flagship ‘An agenda for new skills and jobs’(adoption 23.11.10 tbc)
Modernising labour markets and acquisition of new skills through:
Flexicurity
Promoting Mobility
Better work-life balance and gender equality
Strengthening social partners
Cooperation in education and training and recognition of competences

8. Flagship ‘Youth on the move’ (adoption 15.09.10)
Better higher education and overall quality of all levels of education and training through:
Integration of mobility programmes
Promotion of entrepreneurship through mobility
Youth employment framework
Focus on improved education outcomes
Investment in education and training systems
Better guidance, counselling and apprenticeships

9. Flagship ‘European Platform against Poverty’ (tbc)
Ensure economic, social and territorial cohesion:
Transform social exclusion and protection OMC
Promote shared responsibility in combating poverty and social exclusion
Social innovation
Assess and fully deploy social protection and pension systems
Measures for groups at particular risk

10. 10 integrated guidelines adopted 21.10, 6 under the BEPGs…
Ensuring the quality and sustainability of public finances.
Addressing macroeconomic imbalances.
Reducing imbalances within the Euro area.
Optimizing support for R and D and innovation, strengthening the knowledge triangle and unleashing the potential of the digital economy.
Improving resource efficiency and reducing greenhouse gases.
Improving the business and consumer environment and modernising and developing the industrial base in order to ensure full functioning of the internal market.
to be formally adopted in Autumn 2010
What does this mean?
1. Increasing employment
Focus on groups with low employment rates; Longer careers more hours for those already working
Financial and practical barriers to reduce
Stimulate labour demand and improve matching
2. Education, training and labour productivity
Access to and participation in training
Effective lifelong learning; Anticipate skill needs
Productivity and labour mobility
3. Equal labour market opportunities
Increase career quality for those on non standard contracts
Access to security for all; Reduce labour market and social segmentation
4. Promote social inclusion and combat poverty

11. … and 4 are Employment Guidelines
Increasing labour market participation and reducing structural unemployment: increase LM participation disabled persons.
Developing a skilled workforce responding to labour market needs, promoting lifelong learning.
Improving the performance of education and training systems at all levels and increasing participation in tertiary education.
Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty: focus on disabled people.
to be formally adopted in Autumn 2010
What does this mean?
1. Increasing employment
Focus on groups with low employment rates; Longer careers more hours for those already working
Financial and practical barriers to reduce
Stimulate labour demand and improve matching
2. Education, training and labour productivity
Access to and participation in training
Effective lifelong learning; Anticipate skill needs
Productivity and labour mobility
3. Equal labour market opportunities
Increase career quality for those on non standard contracts
Access to security for all; Reduce labour market and social segmentation
4. Promote social inclusion and combat poverty

12. Timing Draft National Reform Programmes (12 Nov)
EMCO Country examination 23 and 24 November
EPSCO 6 and 7 December
European Semester January 2011, Spring Summit
Annual Growth Survey/Joint Employment Report Jan 2011
Full NRP and SCP April 2011
Policy guidance, recommendations June 2011

13. Proposed monitoring framework
Macro surveillance GL 1-3
Thematic coordination GL 4-10
Thematic surveillance EGL
Monitoring policies under EGL 7-10
Target monitoring
Quantitative assessment of policy areas/guidelines based on agreed indicators
Quantitative tracking of progress towards targets
Qualitative assessment
Qualitative assessment
CSRs, Bottlenecks
CSRs, Bottlenecks
CSRs, Bottlenecks
Assessment of progress towards targets
Identification of areas relevant for macro-economic surveillance

14. Mainly EMCO policy areas

15. Mainly SPC policy areas
Corresponds to integrated guideline nr. 1 2 7 8 9 10 11
Preventing poverty through inclusive labour markets, adequate and sustainable social protection and access to high quality, affordable and sustainable services X
11a
Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty – tackling child poverty
11b
Active inclusion – tackling poverty in working age
11c
Tackling poverty in old age 12
Social inclusion of groups at special risk and anti-discrimination

16. ESF and Europe 2020 Support inclusive growth objective
More visibility ESF in Europe 2020
Strategic/thematic coherence NRP and OP
Priority setting: role of guidelines
Alignment policy cycles
Involvement stakeholders
Conditionalities and strengthening performance structural funds (see future cohesion policy: COM , )

17. Thank you for your attention!
New Skills for New Jobs
Employment and social affairs on the European Commission’s website:
Europe 2020 strategy