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The Prague seminar focused on access to training for groups facing particularly difficult employment challenges in the labour market - such as women, young workers and workers with disabilities. The event was organized jointly by the Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), the InFocus Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability of the International Labour Organization (IFP/SKILLS) and the ILO Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SRO-Budapest) with the financial support of the Flemish government. Taking part in the seminar were a total of 31 trade union experts dealing with employment policy and training issues, as well as officials in the national trade union centres with responsibility for young workers, women workers, and workers with disabilities. Fifteen countries were represented: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia and Ukraine. Also represented were the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) and European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), as well as the Belgian trade union federation FGTB and Czech [non-government organisations] NGOs. [Presentations]: The labour market situation and active policies for disadvantaged groups in Central and Eastern Europe / Alena Nesporova; ILO policy on training and skills development / Torkel Alfthan; Lifelong learning (LLL) / Michael Sebastian; Training policy for persons with disabilities / Barbara Murray; The role of trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe in human resource development and training / Dimitrina Dimitrova; The Belgian experience in training for vulnerable groups / Eddy Van Lancker; ETUC perspective on lifelong learning and the role of the social partners / Antonio Giacche; Social exclusion of vulnerable groups / Yannis Yfantopoulos. Panel discussions: Training policy for women workers; Training policy for young workers. The presentations and the main conclusions of the discussions are described in more detail in the [body of the report].