8. Calls on Members States and the Commission to take steps to: develop growth and employment-friendly policies (e.g. more effective support to SMEs as well as more effective, better targeted and activating unemployment policies and social assistance schemes); to introduce lifelong learning, special training linked to sectors with labour shortages as well as needs of regional and local job markets and re-training in order to sustain employability of the long-term unemployed, and to promote lifelong up-skilling, vocational education, on-the-job training and paid traineeships with particular emphasis on unemployed young persons and on wor ...[+++]kers with low skills; aim at making full-time employees able to live from their work;

8. Calls on Members States and the Commission to take steps to: develop growth and employment-friendly policies (e.g. more effective support to SMEs as well as more effective, better targeted and activating unemployment policies and social assistance schemes); to introduce lifelong learning, special training linked to sectors with labour shortages as well as needs of regional and local job markets and re-training in order to sustain employability of the long-term unemployed, and to promote lifelong up-skilling, vocational education, on-the-job training and paid traineeships with particular emphasis on unemployed young persons and on wor ...[+++]kers with low skills; aim at making full-time employees able to live from their work;

(c) mobility of limited duration, including immersion courses, for language teachers, staff retraining as language teachers, qualified teachers intending soon to return to employment as language teachers, and teaching staff of other disciplines required or wishing to teach in a foreign language.

(c) mobility of limited duration, including immersion courses, for language teachers, staff retraining as language teachers, qualified teachers intending soon to return to employment as language teachers, and teaching staff of other disciplines required or wishing to teach in a foreign language;

- organization of limited-duration courses in public bodies which have been given particular responsibilities in the area concerned,

In order to allow retraining periods of limited duration as part of the mobility procedure provided for in Article 2, the appointing authority may decide to assign an official serving outside the Community to a post in a Member State of the European Communities; such assignments, which shall not be preceded by a vacancy notice, may not be for more than four years.