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2019-2024 Reinforcing the social dimension .................................................................................... 6 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Fair transition to zero-carbon economy ...................................................................... 10 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING European Week 2019 opens up new venues .......................................................... 12 SPECIAL FEATURE ELA – Facilitating cross-border labour mobility ...................................................... 14 Eurofound – Improving how we live and work today and tomorrow ............ 16 EU-OSHA – Helping make workplaces safer, healthier and more productive ........................................................................................................... 18 Cedefop – Supporting vocational education and training ................................. 20 ETF – Promoting vocational education and training outside the EU............. 22 SOCIAL RIGHTS Gender equality and healthcare access ...................................................................... 24 OTHER VOICES Sustainability is social, environmental and economic- Liina Carr, ETUC .... 26 INTERVIEW Taking on climate change: Loukas Stemitsiotis, European Commission.............. 27 A magazine providing information on European employment and social policies, Social Agenda is published four times a year in English, French and German by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. Editor in chief: Joost Korte, Director-General, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion – European Commission, B-1049 Brussels. Subscription is free on request – please fill in the registration form available at: https://europa.eu/!YM86Rv Notice: Neither the European Commission, nor any person acting on its behalf, may be held responsible for the use to which information contained in this publication may be put, or for any errors which, despite careful preparation and checking, may appear. © European Union, 2019 Non-commercial reproduction authorised, subject to acknowledgement of the source. For any use or reproduction of photos which are not under European Union copyright, permission must be sought directly from the copyright holder(s). © Cover background: Shutterstock, 2019; © Tablet screen visual: European Labour Authority, 2019 Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion come under the remit of European Commissioner Marianne Thyssen. The website of Commissioner Thyssen: ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/ thyssen_en The home page of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion: ec.europa.eu/social The website of the European Social Fund: ec.europa.eu/esf Inside this issue... 2 / SOC I A L AG E NDA / NOV E MB E R 2 0 1 9