This year’s Conference in Lisbon our Bulgarian Member represented by Dr.Luba Popova has encouraged a keynote contribution. It has become clear that successful poverty reduction in early infancy has to start. In families and in nursery schools. Prevention of poverty is the basis of social integration in society. Skin color and religious admission may be no reasons for exclusion.
Mrs Popova gave a comprehensive overview of the State of development of poverty in Europe, it is found that poverty in the EU has increased in the last years and that the people recognize a rising danger. Disamyed groups are unemployed, older people and social risk groups.
Mrs. Popova analyzes the developmentsto poverty and social exclusion in the countries Germany, Portugal and Bulgaria. It becomes clear that the developments in the three countries are quite different. The overcoming of poverty is more difficult in countries such as Bulgaria than in Germany.
A particularly effective prevention of the spread of poverty is expansion of learning opportunities. In this context, the EVBB can play an important role.
In the ensuing discussion, it was agreed that education is an important basis on which to find demanding jobs in the labour market.
The reasons were
- Lack of education
- Low professional qualifications
- Not recognition of formal qualifications
- The objectives set in the strategy 2020 can be a tool for combating:
- Development of lifelong learning in the Member States
- Use of instruments developed by the Commission, such as Europe, EQF/NQF
- Promotion of key competences
For years, the members of EVBB deal with these issues.
