The package of EGF assistance will help the car workers of Wielkopolskie by offering them on the job training, tailor-made training and retraining, aid for self-employment, equipment and refitting of workplace and training allowances.

The three most important steps will be the preparation of the 2003 ad-hoc module on adult learning, the 2005 Adult Education Survey proposed by the Commission and a planned third survey of learning in enterprises (CVTS).

While the proposed National Training Fund will provide a 'ringfenced' source of funding for in-company training, ESF co-funded support will be provided for the development of quality training standards in enterprises (particularly SMEs) as well as initiatives to reskill and upskill workers.

Such training, recognised or certified by the competent authorities of the Member State of provenance in accordance with its existing legislation, procedures and practices, involves structured periods of training in a company and, if necessary, in a training establishment or centre, whatever the person's status (work contract, apprenticeship contract, scholar or student).

Particular attention should be paid to improving knowledge of working conditions and the relation between them and work organization/.- 3 - The Commission could encourage cooperative research, i.e. research bringing together within a Community framework research departments and innovative firms from various Member States. Such research could cover obstacles to and constraints on the development of new training partnerships, access to qualifications of the future, positive actions to be set up for workers undergoing in-service training, the divisions between group and individual investments, and the externalization of in- service training ...[+++] operations.

This enables students to undertake long-term training periods in industry, employees to spend a period of time at university and academics to take part in enterprise training activities; - the development of joint training measures between enterprises and universities by designing courses or training materials.