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This document, which includes German, English, and French translations of all text, outlines the 1998 work program of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP). The document begins with an executive summary and a brief foreword. Presented next is an overview of how CEDEFOP will serve as an interface between research, policy, and practice by analyzing, exploiting, and disseminating the results of research conducted by the European Union's member states. The next three sections detail the activities planned to advance the three themes of CEDEFOP's 1998 work program. The following are among the objectives and activities discussed: developing knowledge and expertise (projects promoting competencies and lifelong learning, monitoring developments in the EU's member states, and serving European mobility and exchanges); stimulating debate among vocational education policymakers, researchers, and training practitioners (study visits program, Agora Thessaloniki, cooperative policy development, support for research cooperation); and keeping people informed about developments in vocational education through information services and dissemination activities (publications, library and documentation services, CEDEFOP's "electronic training village," other promotional activities). Appended are the following: a list of CEDEFOP's medium-term priorities (1997-2000), a budget outline, a list of planned publications, a list of principal meetings planned, and an organization chart. (MN)

This booklet details the policy guidelines to which the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) will adhere when working to achieve its medium-term priorities in 1997-2000. The following items are stated in the booklet's six sections: legal requirements, agreements, and publications on which CEDEFOP's policy guidelines are based; activities through which CEDEFOP will address its three main thematic priorities (promoting competencies and lifelong learning, monitoring developments in vocational education and training in the European Community's member states, and serving European mobility and exchanges); actions that CEDEFOP will take to improve its administrative and accounting procedures; and key activities on which CEDEFOP will concentrate in its efforts to exploit information and research existing in the European Community member states and research undertaken in the context of European Union training programs (including providing data on member states' vocational education and training systems and initial and continuing training policies; supporting European mobility for apprentices and young people in vocational education and training; promoting transparency and understanding of vocational qualifications; and organizing transnational exchanges though study visits for training experts). The booklet's entire text is presented in German, English, and French. (MN)

Discusses the formation of the German Parliament's Commission on Future Educational Policy and its 1990 recommendations. Describes reactions of German lawmakers and issues associated with the implementation of the commission's recommendations. Addresses problems posed by the unification of Germany and the integration of the European Community. (THU)