Kollektive Vereinbarungen in der Steuerung betrieblicher Weiterbildung. Beispiele aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland

Since continuing vocational education and training enjoys high status in achieving labour market and sociopolitical goals, the question arises of how social governance is possible in professional and vocational continuing education and training. This article uses the example of negotiated continuing education funds in the Netherlands and social partner guidelines in Germany to show how collective agreements and public funding can complement each other. While in the Netherlands, funds have been institutionalized and have developed into regional and sectoral networks between companies, social partners and those active in labour and economic policy over the last twenty years, the social partner guideline in Germany has caused a step to be taken in the direction of cooperation between social partners and the state. Both examples show that collective agreements contribute to a perpetuation of continuing education policy and thus make up an important share of the measures to institutionalize lifelong learning.