1. EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region PA Education WorkingLife - Stockholm – November, 26, 2013

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3. 3 policy areas - education (general- and vocational education, adult learning, university); - youth; - labour mobility.

4. Other Strategies Europe 2020 Strategy; - reducing school drop-outs rates below 10%, and - reaching at least 40% of 30 – 34 years olds with third level education. ET 2020 with its 4 strategic objectives - making lifelong learning and mobility a reality, - improving the quality and efficiency of education and training, - promoting equality, social cohesion and active citizenship, - enhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training.

5. Other strategies European cooperation in the Youth field ; - creation of more and equal opportunities in education and the labour market, - promotion of active citizenship, social inclusion and solidarity. 8 fields of actions; - education and training, - employment and entrepreneurship, - health and well-being, - participation, - voluntary activities, - social inclusion, - youth and the world, - creativity and culture.

6. 2 Priority Area Coordinators - Hamburg (Susanne Lonscher-Räcke) (Susanne Lonscher-Räcke) - Norden Association in Sweden (Anders Bergström) (Anders Bergström)

7. Today 4 flagship projects - Baltic University Programme Network of 225 universities with focus on sustainable development. Financed by membership fees and own finance by the universities. - Quick IGA Innovation, Gender and Age, transfer of best practice on women and elderly access to the labour market. Financed by INTERREG IVB Baltic Sea Programme. 13 partners. - Baltic Training Programme Internationalisation of vocational education and training including supporting entrepreneurship. A cluster of three INTERREG IV A projects and one Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation. - Baltic Sea Labour Forum A network with 27 labour market organisations. At present supported by CBSS.

8. And soon hopefully more flagship projects - S2W combating yearly school leavers - Baltic Sea Youth Forum - Ready to research - Introducing dual education within VET - International EU Project Manager - Increased labour mobility (together with BSLF) - a service function supporting labour mobility, - summer job programme. - summer job programme.

9. Priorities 2013 - targets and indicators, - involving stakeholders in the member states, - alignment of funding (ESF, ERDF, LLP)

10. Seed Money options - EUSBSR Seed Money Facility http://seed.eusbsr.eu - CBSS Project Support Facility https://www.cbss.org/Economic-Development/project-support-facility https://www.cbss.org/Economic-Development/project-support-facilityhttps://www.cbss.org/Economic-Development/project-support-facility - Swedish Institute http://eng.si.se/areas-of-operation/scholarships-and-grants/baltic- region-seed-funding-grants/ http://eng.si.se/areas-of-operation/scholarships-and-grants/baltic- region-seed-funding-grants/ http://eng.si.se/areas-of-operation/scholarships-and-grants/baltic- region-seed-funding-grants/

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