community integration skills

20. Underlines the importance of developing digital skills as part of lifelong learning, of integrating new media and new technologies in the curricula, and of developing digital and media literacy from the earliest stage at school and going through the whole education cycle; stresses the need to develop innovative ways of learning, and to extend the availability of online and distance learning through open educational resources (OER) that facilitate equal access to education and training for everyone; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support access to information and communication ...[+++] technologies in all education and vocational training institutions; maintains that teachers need to be given training geared to these skills and to effective ways of imparting them to young people;

37. Believes that developing entrepreneurship skills and programmes to learn how the market, the economy and the financial system operate, function and interact, along with environmental awareness, and how new technologies can boost effective, innovative and green opportunities, should be included in basic and higher education systems, and also be promoted through extra-curricular activities and lifelong learning; believes that a well prepared business plan is the first step towards better access to finance and viability; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include entrepreneurship, financial, economic and environmental education in their educ ...[+++]ation programmes without delay; supports in this connection the ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ programme, designed to promote an entrepreneurial culture and develop the single market and competitiveness;

37. Believes that developing entrepreneurship skills and programmes to learn how the market, the economy and the financial system operate, function and interact, along with environmental awareness, and how new technologies can boost effective, innovative and green opportunities, should be included in basic and higher education systems, and also be promoted through extra-curricular activities and lifelong learning; believes that a well prepared business plan is the first step towards better access to finance and viability; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include entrepreneurship, financial, economic and environmental education in their educ ...[+++]ation programmes without delay; supports in this connection the ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ programme, designed to promote an entrepreneurial culture and develop the single market and competitiveness;

Encourage adult learning providers, where possible, to integrate entrepreneurship skills and competences into existing provision or by means of specific courses.