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 The relevant problems were discussed in the Working Group as follows:
· new challenges to develop public servants training system under conditions of globalisation, EU enlargement and knowledge society establishment;
· progressive experience of public servants’ training accumulated through international practice;
· establishment and development of public servants training systems, development and implementation of national and international strategies for improvement of such systems.
The main attention was paid to the following issues: new challenges for the improvement of public servants training, studies and qualification quality; new experience accumulated in CEE countries, members of the EU, while improving public servants qualification and organising teaching and studies; new phenomena and problems which silhouetted after EU enlargement; integration of scientific research elements into processes of training and qualification improvement.
The working group specified certain problems and suggested their solutions:
· The content of the training and in-service training has to be relevant to the new requirements which are predetermined by the EU enlargement and prospects of cooperation between EU and other countries.
· The quality of training and in-service training has to comply with the international standards and the latest requirements. It is therefore necessary to establish an efficient system of certification for training and in-service training programmes, to develop and implement highly dynamic systems of criteria for international certification of the training and in-service training programmes for civil servants and public administration specialists in all countries of the EU, as well as third countries.
· Processes of training and in-service training have to be increasingly internationalized: training, studies and in-service training require involvement of foreign lecturers and trainers; it is essential to develop international networks of Centers and institutions for civil servants and public administration specialists training, studies and in-service training; it is essential to develop distance-learning technologies and, based on that, to internationalize processes of training, studies and in-service training.
· It is necessary to conduct extensive scientific research in the area of training, studies and in-service training for civil servants and public administration specialists. It is necessary to initiate and carry out comparative research in the actual quality of training and in-service training systems; possibilities for development of international cooperation in the area of training and in-service training; creation and dissemination of new methods and technologies for training and in-service training; possibilities to apply modern marketing methods, especially those for innovations marketing; possibilities to adopt the experience of the ‘old’ EU countries, the USA and other Western countries and to apply it in Central and Eastern European countries, as well disseminate the experience of Central and Eastern European countries.

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