**1. Introduction**

Professional training is an important component of Romanian education for adult system, a part of 'lifelong learning' process. The actual concerns regarding lifelong learning in Romania

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are concentrated on the elaboration of a national strategy, coherent and integrated, through all the interested parts and factors to act for the development of the domain.

Themainobstacles intheeffortsofadoptingaright strategyandapplyingtheLisbonandEurope 2020 Strategy directives are:


Theresponsibleministryandauthoritiesestablishedasetofobjectivestoovercometheproblems of adult education system which are:


Due to the financial and economic global crisis, the resources dedicated to training and human resource development are very reduced or missing integrally. The solutions for this are online courses at low costs because ofthe reduced expenses vs.face-to-face courses which involve logistic costs.

The most appropriate way to finance lifelong learning in Romania in present conditions when the crisis is ameliorated but not overpassed totally are the European Structural and Cohesion Funds for Economic Competitiveness and Human Resource Development. The two national programmes together can be used for financing lifelong learning for adults.
