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The Ministry of Education and Culture is accelerating lifelong learning with new grants of almost EUR 20 million. Renewing skills will respond to the transformation of working life which has been further accelerated by the corona crisis. Additional funding for working-age skills was decided in last years fourth amending budget. Already earlier in the summer the ministry allocated almost 40 million to projects and experiments that support lifelong learning.The reform of lifelong learning aims to help people develop skills improve the availability of a skilled workforce and support employment. The Ministry of Education and Culture awarded grants to 79 projects supporting the reform of lifelong learning for a total of EUR 19.8 million. The projects respond to the changes in working life facilitate recovery from the interest rate crisis and support the availability of skilled labor in the regions. In order to meet the competence needs short-term training is carried out for which a total of EUR 8.9 million was granted in grants. Short-term training responds in particular to the shortage of software and technology professionals. In addition grants were awarded for training related to the green transition to climate-sustainable structural change and the use of digitalisation artificial intelligence and robotics. The so-called In order to increase the participation of under-represented groups EUR 8.2 million was allocated to develop and implement among other things application-oriented activities studies promoting work and study readiness and training support measures. Municipal employment experiments will be supported with EUR 2.7 million. Seventeen projects provide employment-friendly studies and streamline services and employment. Funding was provided especially for new and expanding municipal pilot areas. Of the supported projects 31 are applied for by a vocational training provider 28 by universities and 20 by liberal arts institutions. When deciding on grants project applications are evaluated by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. ELY centers were also consulted during the evaluation. The parliamentary guidelines for the reform of lifelong learning were completed in December 2020. A more detailed roadmap for the implementation of the reform will be prepared at the beginning of the year. The indicators are used to monitor the development of phenomena related to continuous learning and to assess the implementation of reforms.
