Norway's skills policy priorities are to increase lifelong learning participation, especially among at-risk groups, develop digital competence across sectors through cross-sectoral cooperation, and reform competence through its strategy for skills policy 2017-2021 which focuses on future skills needs, lifelong learning experts, and continuing education programs in digital skills. Other key targets include developing a flexible adult education system adapted to needs, improving vocational training opportunities for unskilled workers, and strengthening career guidance and validation of prior learning.

1. Skills policy priorities - Norway
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2. Priorities
• Increase participation in LLL
– especially among groups at
risk of social exclusion
• Digital competence
• Vertical and horizontal
• Cross sectoral tripartite
cooperation

3. The competence reform «Lære hele livet»
• Norwegian Strategy for Skills Policy 2017-
2021
• Competence reform and whitepaper
• Future skills needs committee
• Expert committee on LLL
• Trade programme for LLL
• Flexible continuing education in digital
competence
• Digital LLL platform
• Digital career guidance system

4. Other main targets for Norway
• Develop a flexible and module-based adult education
system that is adapted to the adults’s needs
• Improve opportunities for unskilled workers to achieve VET
training/qualifications at their workplace
• Facilitate language learning in work practice
• Strengthen the opportunities of carreer guidance for all
• Improve opportunities of validation of prior learning
• Improve the further training system for adult teachers