In order to build a strong adult learning sector, Member States are invited to focus on:

• Developing quality assurance for adult learning providers, for example by means of accreditation systems, taking into account already existing quality frameworks/standards in other sectors.
• Improving the quality of adult education staff, for instance by defining competence profiles, establishing effective systems for initial training and professional development, and facilitating the mobility of teachers, trainers and other adult education staff.
• Ensuring a viable and transparent system for the funding of adult learning, based on shared responsibility with a high level of public commitment to the sector and support for those who cannot pay, balanced distribution of funds across the lifelong learning continuum, appropriate contribution to funding from all stakeholders and the exploration of nnovative means for more effective and efficient financing.
• Developing mechanisms for ensuring that educational provision better reflects labour market needs and that it provides possibilities for acquiring qualifications and developing new skills which increase people's capacity to adapt to the new requirements of a changing environment.
• Intensifying cooperation and partnership between all stakeholders relevant for adult learning, notably public authorities, the different providers of adult learning opportunities, social partners and civil society organisations, especially at regional and local level in the context of developing "learning regions" and local learning centres.