Lunch lectures on VET for adults and skill demand

Numerous exciting webinars took place in December as part of the Erasmus+ VET Team Austria's Lunch Lectures. 3s was represented with two lectures.

The Erasmus+ VET Team Austria at the OeAD, the national agency for Erasmus+, offers infor­ma­ti­on and coun­sel­ling services on European instru­ments and prin­ci­ples of voca­tio­nal education and training. In December 2023, the VET Team Austria organised a series of one-hour lectures and workshops, online and at lunchtime. The programme around the topic of VET was diverse.

3s offered two webinars as part of the Lunch Lectures. In his pre­sen­ta­ti­on “Adults in VET — VET for adults: Is Austria following the European trend?”, Günter Hefler spoke about the role of VET systems for adults and adults as target groups of VET, be it for the first-time attain­ment of qua­li­fi­ca­ti­ons, for further training or in con­nec­tion with a career change. Eva Steinheimer and Stefan Humpl devoted their pre­sen­ta­ti­on to the topic of “Action-relevant levers for combating skills shortages and the role of voca­tio­nal education and training” and discussed which (policy) areas con­tri­bu­te to guarantee skill supply for the labour market, from initial education and training and adult learning to the role of companies, as well as labour mobility, health and gender equality issues.