Abstract
Against the background of influential reports by the Industrial Research and Advisory Committee and the Round Table of European Industrialists which highlighted fundamental challenges for education and training in Europe, the author stresses the importance of the three-way relationship between company, individual employee and the providers of education and training. He points up key elements in the achievement of professional competence and in the way forward for continuing education. Focusing on the importance of international networking, he picks out COMETT's EuroPro programme as a path-breaking venture which benefits all participants. Successful teamwork across Europe, he concludes, is essential to global competitiveness and a key element in the solution that continuing education must provide to the European skills shortage.
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