ABSTRACT The influence of the European Commission (EC) expert groups on policy coordination within the European Union has received a growing interest among researchers, who have assessed their role in policy-making processes, their participation patterns, their transparency, and their knowledge-generating process. This article interrogates the structural configuration of the networks, and the relationships between the actors, formed through the Commission expert groups on adult learning, and under the Education and Training 2020 work programme, respectively, by means of a Social Network Analysis. So attention is paid on the mutual-constitutivness of a social network and its members, or the potential power within a network, and of a network, to influence member states’ domestic adaptation of communitarian policies. Our analysis points at noticeable differences between the connectivity of each of the Commission expert groups, and the groups emerging from the two forms of network governance these produce in the adult learning, and education and training domains. A key result, however, is that two actors (i.e. Flemish Department for Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland) stand out as fully embedded in both forms of network governance, and represent highly connected ‘informal’ brokers across policy domains.

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走向欧洲终身学习的网络治理：委员会专家组的结构分析

摘要 欧盟委员会 (EC) 专家组对欧盟内部政策协调的影响越来越受到研究人员的关注，他们评估了他们在决策过程中的作用、参与模式、透明度和知识生成过程。本文通过社交网络分析，分别探讨了通过委员会成人学习专家组和 2020 年教育和培训工作计划形成的网络结构配置以及参与者之间的关系。因此，关注社会网络及其成员的相互构成性，或网络内和网络内的潜在权力，以影响成员国对社区政策的国内适应。我们的分析指出，每个委员会专家组的连通性与在成人学习、教育和培训领域产生的两种网络治理形式产生的组之间存在显着差异。然而，一个关键的结果是，两个参与者（即佛兰德教育和培训部、芬兰教育和文化部）在这两种形式的网络治理中脱颖而出，并代表了跨政策领域高度联系的“非正式”经纪人.