PES Manifesto

Raul Canay: For a true knowledge society

Published Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 11:30
by Editor in New Social Europe (157 views and 0 comments)

Here's another post from the Spanish PES activists:

The expression of “the European knowledge society” has become commonplace ever since the Lisbon and Barcelona Summits (held respectively in 2000 and 2002). You hear it all the time and almost in every context. But is it enough to talk about it to make it a reality?

To reach this objective, we all have to take up our responsibilities, not just the academic world or the companies. Life-long learning in such areas as languages, information and communication technologies, the environment or gender equality will not only allow us to better know and use our civil rights but it will also allow us to create the society we really want to live in, beyond the limitations of a “knowledge-based society”.
The PES should therefore fight for the goal of enhancing life-long learning programmes, which lay special emphasis on those groups of society that remain excluded for various reasons. Our farmers, our elderly, our linguistic minorities, etc. , should be able to have access to this kind of training through specific programmes. If we manage to reach this goal, the European knowledge society will be a reality for all. And we cannot be content with anything less than that.

A Spanish version is attached to this post.

Raul Canay is an economist, a PSOE activist and a member of the manifiesto2009.es network.

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