At the same time this process has led to the transformation of higher education into
mass training. According to UNESCO and EUROSTAT data, in 2003 about 80% of the 20-24-
year-old youth was involved in higher education in the USA, while this proportion was only
57% in the European Union and 50 % in Japan. The proportion of those participating in adult
training was also about twice as much in the USA than in the EU countries. (Delivering on the
modernization…, 2006) One of the key pieces of creating an innovative Europe – according to
the Lisbon Strategy – is to increase the proportion of participants in higher education. Besides
the above mentioned finding the talent students in the higher education, their conscious assistant
to promote evolving talent is the duty of the teaching staff.