EU education systems after the Covid-19 pandemic
an analysis on the Romania’s recovery and resilience plan and its measures on sustainable education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.60054/PEU.2021.8.212-222Keywords:
Recovery and Resilience, challenges in education, EU regulations, growth, COVID-19 pandemicAbstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought out many changes in all subsystems of social life and highlighted the need for resilience of both individuals and communities. For sure, all over Europe, the educational systems were severely affected since March 2020. In these circumstances, investing in education become an important goal for every European society, being very important for its growth and competitiveness. The Recovery and Resilience Facility, recently adopted at EU level, represent a key instrument that will provide new opportunities for member states to invest in education to address existing educational challenges and to ensure more resilient systems. This communication is focusing on an analysis of the Romania’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, in order to see how the goals that were set in this Plan will be achieved and will diminish the actual challenges of the educational system.
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