Autumn 2025

19 Nov 2025

Final Conference of Skills2Capabilities: Turning Evidence Into Action

What makes skills systems future-proof? Experts and poli­cy­ma­kers met in Maastricht to discuss how VET can better respond to labour-market needs and support skills tran­si­ti­ons across Europe.

13 Nov 2025

New Publication: Learning Democracy in Vocational Education and Training in Europe

A new Council of Europe anthology explores how Vocational Education and Training (VET) can foster demo­cra­tic com­pe­ten­ces – with a con­tri­bu­ti­on by Jörg Markowitsch.

22 Oct 2025

Support that works: Study confirms the strong impact of the Viennese way

Nine out of ten par­ti­ci­pan­ts say that without the waff support, they would not have been able to pursue further training. A new study high­lights the lasting impact of this funding instrument.

20 Oct 2025

Turning evidence into action — Skills2Capabilities reports to the EC

The Skills2Capabilities project featured pro­min­ent­ly in the European Commission’s latest Feedback-to-Policy event on education and skills in Brussels.

11 Nov 2025

Validation and Recognition of Competences in Focus

At an event hosted by the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour, current deve­lo­p­ments in the reco­gni­ti­on and vali­da­ti­on of com­pe­ten­ces acquired outside the formal context were at the centre of discussion.

30 Sep 2025

Talking about adult learning – the dis­cur­si­ve power of national skills strategies

At the ESREA 2025 Conference in Prague, 3s explored how dialogue within national skills stra­te­gies shapes coope­ra­ti­on, trust, and policy coherence in adult learning.

10 Oct 2025

Quality, Trust and Cooperation: European Peer Learning Activity on Micro-credentials

A European peer learning event explored success factors and chal­lenges in quality assurance and stake­hol­der enga­ge­ment in the deve­lo­p­ment of micro-credentials.

16 Sep 2025

Evaluation confirms strong impact of FEAD support

The European Commission’s final eva­lua­ti­on of FEAD shows lasting benefits for millions of dis­ad­van­ta­ged people across the EU.

Summer 2025

8 Jul 2025

Cedefop Conference Explores the Impact of Learning Outcomes on Teaching and Learning in VET

Experts and stake­hol­ders gathered to debate how the use of learning outcomes shapes teaching and learning, with three 3s members actively con­tri­bu­ting to the event.

6 Jun 2025

Join us for the Skills2Capabilities final conference

From 13–14 November, we will meet a at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht (NL) to discuss insights from our project and input from the research community with policy-makers and practitioners.

2 Jun 2025

Exploring National Skills Strategies in Times of Transition

At this year’s VETNET-Europe Crossing Boundaries Conference in Palma de Mallorca, 3s presented new research from the Horizon Europe project Skills2Capabilities.

2 Jun 2025

Take Part in a European Online-Survey on Microcredentials

3s invites you, on behalf of Cedefop, to par­ti­ci­pa­te in a survey aimed at coll­ec­ting expert input on existing microcredentials.