Communication COM(2010) 2010 - Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

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Identification
Communication COM(2010) 2010 - Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
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Europe 2020
Communication from
European Commission
Date
03/03/2010
Summary
Europe 2020 puts forward three mutually reinforcing priorities:

Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation. Flagships:

Innovation Union
Youth on the move
A Digital Agenda for Europe

Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy. Flagships:

Resource Efficient Europe
An Industrial Policy for the Globalisation Era"

Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion. Flagships:

An Agenda for new skills and jobs
European Platform Against Poverty

Text of the Communication on-line
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Result.do?T1=V5&T2=2010&T3=2020&RechType=RECH_naturel&Submit=Search
Flagship initiative:
Innovation Union
The aim of this is to re-focus R&D and innovation policy on the challenges facing our society, such as climate change, energy and resource efficiency, health and demographic change. Every link should be strengthened in the innovation chain, from 'blue sky' research to commercialisation.
Flagship initiative:
Youth on the move
The aim is to enhance the performance and international attractiveness of Europe's higher education institutions and raise the overall quality of all levels of education and training in the EU, combining both excellence and equity, by promoting student mobility and trainees' mobility, and improve the employment situation of young people.
Flagship initiative:
A Digital Agenda for Europe
The aim is to deliver sustainable economic and social benefits from a Digital Single Market based on fast and ultra fast internet and interoperable applications, with broadband access for all by 2013, access for all to much higher internet speeds (30 Mbps or above) by 2020, and 50% or more of European households subscribing to internet connections above 100 Mbps.
Flagship initiative:
Resource efficient Europe
The aim is to support the shift towards a resource efficient and low-carbon economy that is efficient in the way it uses all resources. The aim is to decouple our economic growth from resource and energy use, reduce CO2 emissions, enhance competitiveness and promote greater energy security.
Flagship initiative:
An industrial policy for the globalisation era
Industry and especially SMEs have been hit hard by the economic crisis and all sectors are facing the challenges of globalisation and adjusting their production processes and products to a low-carbon economy. The impact of these challenges will differ from sector to sector, some sectors might have to "reinvent" themselves but for others these challenges will present new business opportunities. The Commission will work closely with stakeholders in different sectors (business, trade unions, academics, NGOs, consumer organisations) and will draw up a framework for a modern industrial policy, to support entrepreneurship, to guide and help industry to become fit to meet these challenges, to promote the competitiveness of Europe’s primary, manufacturing and service industries and help them seize the opportunities of globalisation and of the green economy. The framework will address all elements of the increasingly international value chain from access to raw materials to after-sales service.
Flagship initiative:
An Agenda for new skills and jobs
The aim is to create conditions for modernising labour markets with a view to raising employment levels and ensuring the sustainability of our social models. This means empowering people through the acquisition of new skills to enable our current and future workforce to adapt to new conditions and potential career shifts, reduce unemployment and raise labour productivity.
Flagship initiative:
European Platform against Poverty
The aim is to ensure economic, social and territorial cohesion, building on the current European year for combating poverty and social exclusion so as to raise awareness and recognise the fundamental rights of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion, enabling them to live in dignity and take an active part in society.

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Identification	Communication COM(2010) 2010 - Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
See	Europe 2020
Communication from	European Commission
Date	03/03/2010
Summary	Europe 2020 puts forward three mutually reinforcing priorities: Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation. Flagships: Innovation Union Youth on the move A Digital Agenda for Europe Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy. Flagships: Resource Efficient Europe An Industrial Policy for the Globalisation Era" Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion. Flagships: An Agenda for new skills and jobs European Platform Against Poverty
Text of the Communication on-line	http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Result.do?T1=V5&T2=2010&T3=2020&RechType=RECH_naturel&Submit=Search
Flagship initiative: Innovation Union	The aim of this is to re-focus R&D and innovation policy on the challenges facing our society, such as climate change, energy and resource efficiency, health and demographic change. Every link should be strengthened in the innovation chain, from 'blue sky' research to commercialisation.
Flagship initiative: Youth on the move	The aim is to enhance the performance and international attractiveness of Europe's higher education institutions and raise the overall quality of all levels of education and training in the EU, combining both excellence and equity, by promoting student mobility and trainees' mobility, and improve the employment situation of young people.
Flagship initiative: A Digital Agenda for Europe	The aim is to deliver sustainable economic and social benefits from a Digital Single Market based on fast and ultra fast internet and interoperable applications, with broadband access for all by 2013, access for all to much higher internet speeds (30 Mbps or above) by 2020, and 50% or more of European households subscribing to internet connections above 100 Mbps.
Flagship initiative: Resource efficient Europe	The aim is to support the shift towards a resource efficient and low-carbon economy that is efficient in the way it uses all resources. The aim is to decouple our economic growth from resource and energy use, reduce CO2 emissions, enhance competitiveness and promote greater energy security.
Flagship initiative: An industrial policy for the globalisation era	Industry and especially SMEs have been hit hard by the economic crisis and all sectors are facing the challenges of globalisation and adjusting their production processes and products to a low-carbon economy. The impact of these challenges will differ from sector to sector, some sectors might have to "reinvent" themselves but for others these challenges will present new business opportunities. The Commission will work closely with stakeholders in different sectors (business, trade unions, academics, NGOs, consumer organisations) and will draw up a framework for a modern industrial policy, to support entrepreneurship, to guide and help industry to become fit to meet these challenges, to promote the competitiveness of Europe’s primary, manufacturing and service industries and help them seize the opportunities of globalisation and of the green economy. The framework will address all elements of the increasingly international value chain from access to raw materials to after-sales service.
Flagship initiative: An Agenda for new skills and jobs	The aim is to create conditions for modernising labour markets with a view to raising employment levels and ensuring the sustainability of our social models. This means empowering people through the acquisition of new skills to enable our current and future workforce to adapt to new conditions and potential career shifts, reduce unemployment and raise labour productivity.
Flagship initiative: European Platform against Poverty	The aim is to ensure economic, social and territorial cohesion, building on the current European year for combating poverty and social exclusion so as to raise awareness and recognise the fundamental rights of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion, enabling them to live in dignity and take an active part in society.