scholarly journals Adult Education and International Organizations (UNESCO): Contemporary Policies and Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
George Panagiotopoulos ◽  
Katerina Pertesi ◽  
Zoe Karanikola
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
International Policies ◽  
The Social

In a rapidly changing world with its diverse spectrum of social characteristics that are currently defining our present period, its continual influx of migrating populations, the growing development of technology as well as the continual increasing rate of unemployment makes it more now than ever, necessary to develop not only international but also national policies that aim to support the viability and advancement of its citizens. International organizations constitute the corner stone of public policy for the confrontation of these challenges. More specifically, UNESCO and the institutions of the European Union (EU) should be called on to play a decisive role in the implementation of Agenda 2030 using the experience and the extended diplomatic networks that they possess. Consequently, important official texts of international policies concerning the prosperity of its citizens through adult education have been recorded. This research, through the qualitative analysis of the UNESCO (2016) text, is meant to highlight and study the dimensions of adult learning and how they can be made applicable. Through the analysis of the text, there are emerging thematic networks, which are related to policy making, a feature of which is the investment in lifelong learning, to disseminate good practices and to evaluate them. A cornerstone of policies, actions and decisions is also the social right of adult citizens.

scholarly journals Resilience as a Public Object. A Longitudinal Press Analysis of the Press Representations of Resilience in Italy, Spain, and France

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Alessia Rochira ◽  
Terri Mannarini ◽  
Evelyn De Simone ◽  
Serena Verbena ◽  
Alessandra Manfreda
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Object A ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Over Time

The notion of “resilience” has spilled over from the field of science and entered the field of policy, turning into a public and political object. The current study explores the social representations of resilience produced by press discourses between 2001 and 2017 in three different national contexts (Spain, France, and Italy), and examines the degree to which such representations incorporate technical and scientific meanings or rather include new components. A total amount of 1,298 articles published in three national newspapers (La Repubblica, Italy; Le Monde, France; and El Pais, Spain) were collected and analyzed for themes using the T-LAB software. The findings revealed more similarities than differences among the countries. The interest towards the topic increased over time, with the representations of resilience becoming more and more diversified and multifaceted. The technical and scientific components remained in the background, while a “practical theory” of resilience emerged, echoing the use of the concept in policy making, specifically in the European Union institutions approach.

The role of the EU in promoting good governance in Macedonia: towards efficiency and effectiveness or deliberative democracy?

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Risteska
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
The Eu

Good governance has been used as a development tool by international organizations and the European Union (hereinafter: EU) which has included it in cooperation agreements and promotes it within its Enlargement Policy. This paper analyzes the good governance approach in the EU's relations with Macedonia and its effects on the country's democratic policy making. The analysis shows that the Europeanization of Macedonia has an impact on the democratic processes in the country with sub-optimal results as its technocratic approach in assessing the country's readiness for EU membership has proved to be detrimental for the deliberative democratic processes. The intensive pressure for effectiveness and efficiency results in finding short cuts in rule transfer through copying and pasting legislation from member states and limiting the democratic policy making to political deliberation rather than to wide policy consultations between state and non-state actors.

Cross-National Studies of the Impact of Levels of Living on Economic Growth: An Example

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cross National

The paper describes a study carried out at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development to discover a few of the conditions that in six developing countries affected the linkage between certain social levels or “inputs,” such as the level of education and health and educational and health services, on the one hand, and economic growth, on the other. The conditions that were found to be important, to various degrees, and that should be considered in subsequent analysis (and policy making) of the relationships of levels of living to economic growth include the structure of production, selected aspects of the social structure, and the nature and distribution of the social characteristics themselves.

Non-formal adult education in Latvia: opportunities and challenges

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Anita Zaļaiskalne
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Education Planning ◽  
Adult Participation

The article “Non-formal adult education in Latvia: opportunities and challenges” includes a presentation of adult education planning in the European Union and Latvian education policy documents. Based on data on adult participation in education and theoretical aspects of adult learning, methodological recommendations for developing the content of adult non-formal education programmes are developed.

scholarly journals The influence of globalization processes on the development of the adult education system

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Savenko
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Education System ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
The Impact

The article examines the main aspects of the impact of globalization processes on the development of adult education. Trends in the development of adult education in the context of globalization are identified. The peculiarities of the competence approach to adult learning and the priorities of the educational policy are analyzed, the essence of the main key competencies is revealed. The options for solving the problems of adult education are substantiated, which largely depends on the content of the educational process in the humanities, which is a necessary component of forming a worldview in the acquisition of new competencies, professional knowledge and skills, highlights the experience of international organizations.

scholarly journals CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL ENTITIES IN SPAIN: ESTABLISHMENT AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Fedorov ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Gradual Introduction ◽  
Legal Entities

The article is dedicated to issues of criminal liability of legal entities in the Kingdom of Spain. It is noted that Spain refers to the countries whose criminal laws are codified only in part and include special laws in addition to the national criminal code. Criminal liability of legal entities is established and regulated by the Criminal Code as well as by special criminal laws. Gradual introduction of criminal liability of legal entities in Spain by means of corresponding amendments to criminal laws is reviewed. Attention is directed to the fact that the decisive role in the establishment of criminal liability of legal entities is played by Spain’s membership in the Council of Europe, the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which impose requirements for bringing national laws of the member states in compliance with the standards of such international organizations in terms of introduction of criminal liability of legal entities. It is noted that the Criminal Code of Spain has initially included only provisions on civil liability of legal entities and has been supplemented with provisions on criminal liability of legal entities later. Amendments to the Criminal Code of Spain introduced in 2010 and establishing criminal liability of legal entities as well as further legal novelties regulating such liability are analyzed. The range of subjects of criminal liability established for legal entities and legal entities immune from such liability are indicated. Attention is directed to the issues of bringing to criminal liability of legal entities having lost their legal personality as a consequence of merger, acquisition, split-up or liquidation after committing a crime. It is noted that legal entities may be brought to liability not for any crimes stipulated by the national laws, rather just for some of them, specifically described in the criminal laws.

SOCIALIZATION AND SOCIAL QUALITY AS INSTRUMENTS OF THE STATE POLICY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Valeriy HEYETS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Individual

Self-realization of the individual in the conditions of using the policy of “social quality” as a modern tool of public administration in a transitional society is largely related to overcoming the existing limitations of the individual in acting in such a society and economy transitioning to a market character. Given that, in particular, in Ukraine the market is hybrid (and this is especially important), the existing limitations in self-realization of the individual must be overcome, including, and perhaps primarily, through transformations in the processes of socialization, which differ from European practices and institutions that ensure its implementation. Thus, it is a matter of overcoming not only and not so much the natural selfish interests of the individual, but the existing gap in skills, which are an invisible asset to ensure the endogenous nature of economic growth. It is shown that there is an inverse relationship between the formation of socialization and the policy of “social quality”, which is characterized by the dialectic of interaction between the individual and the group and which is a process of increasing the degree of socialization. The latter, due to interdependence, will serve to increase the effectiveness of interaction between the individual and the group, which expands the possibilities of self-realization of the individual in terms of European policy of “social quality” as a tool of public administration, whose successful application causes new challenges and content of the so-called secondary sociology. The logic of Ukraine's current development shows that new approaches are needed to achieve the social development goals set out in the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union and to minimize the potential risks and threats that accompany current reforms in Ukrainian society. They should introduce new forms of public administration to create policy interrelationships of all dimensions, as proposed, in particular, by the social quality approach to socialization, the nature of which has been revealed in the author's previous publications. As a result, the socio-cultural (social) dimension will fundamentally change, the structure of which must include the transformational processes of socialization of a person, thanks to which they will learn the basics of life in the new social reality and intensify their social and economic interaction on the basis of self-realization, thereby contributing to the success of state policy of social quality and achieving stable socio-economic development.

Regional Disparities of the Social Innovation Potential in the Visegrad Countries: Causes and Consequences

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
György Kocziszky ◽  
Dóra Szendi
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Complex Character ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
The Social ◽  
Territorial Disparities ◽  
Active Contribution ◽  
Visegrád Countries

Abstract The international literature is paying significant and increasing attention to the analysis of the regions’ innovation potential, and its active contribution to economic growth and competitiveness. Beside the classical, technical innovation, also the social innovation is getting even more emphasis. It can solve as alternative basically in the case of the peripheral territories. The convergence of peripheries is a stressed priority in the European Union. The territorial disparities are resulting in significant social and political problems also in the case of the Visegrad countries’ regions. The authors in their research represent a possible method for the measurement of regional (NUTS-2) level social innovation potential on the example of the Visegrad countries, and they also analyse the causes and consequences of disparities. The applied complex social innovation index can be calculated as a result of three pillars (economic, social, culture and attitude), and several components. As a result of the created patterns can be concluded that compared to the economic indicators, the disadvantage of the peripheries is not so significant in the case of the social innovation index, because of the complex character of the index. In the second part of the research, the authors analyse and evaluate also the methods, which can be adequate for increasing the social innovation potential.

Ensuring sustainable foreign economic relations of countries at the forefront and outskirts of the European Union

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1980-1996
Author(s):  
T.S. Malakhova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Economic Bloc ◽  
The Eu

Subject. Foreign economic and trade ties among countries are getting tighter and less predictable in the early 21st century. This directly stems from a growing disparity of partners, especially if it goes about their future cooperation as part of integration groups or international organizations. Communities of experts suggest using various approaches to locally adjusting integration phases, especially implementing the two-speed integration in the European Union. Objectives. The study is an attempt to examine an improvement of foreign economic cooperation and suggest its implementation steps for the European Union. This all is due to considerable inner controversies and problems within the EU, which grow more serious year by year. Methods. The methodological framework comprises the historical logic, dialectical principles, scientific abstraction method. The process and system approach was especially important for justifying the implementation of the above steps. It was used to examine foreign economic relations of partners in the European Union. Results. The article sets forth the theoretical and methodological framework for the geostrategic economic bloc, including a conceptual structure model. I present steps to implement a foreign economic cooperation of partners in the EU in terms of its form. Conclusions and Relevance. Should the form of the foreign economic relations among the EU countries be implemented, counties at the periphery of the EU will be able to become active parties to the integration group.

CHAM MUSLIMS IN HO CHI MINH CITY TODAY

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phu Van Han
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

After more than 30 years of national reform, Ho Chi Minh City has made great changes in economy, living standards and society for all population groups, including the Cham Muslim community. The study clarifies the social characteristics, community development trends in the current sustainable development process of the Cham Muslims. At the same time, explore the adaptability of the community, clarify the aspects of social life and the development of Cham Muslims in Ho Chi Minh City. Thereby, providing insight into a unique cultural lifestyle, harmony between religion and ethnic customs, in a multicultural, colorful city in Ho Chi Minh City today.

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