"Following the Conclusions of the Heads of State in Lisbon in 2000 and their endorsement of the common objectives for education and training in Europe in Barcelona in 2002, a radically new process of cooperation has been launched in the education and training areas. The overall objective is to make education and training systems in Europe a world quality reference by 2010. In its second annual Commission Staff Working Paper “Progress towards the Lisbon Objectives in Education and Training”, the Commission analyses the performances of 30 education and training systems." (2005)