Spring 2024
5 Apr 2024
Pact for Skills helped train 3.5 million workers
At the Pact for Skills Forum recently held in Brussels, key results from the annual survey on the Pact on activities over last two years were presented.
15 Apr 2024
On the islands of the Serenissima — Horizon partner meeting
Great progress was reported at the second project meeting of our Horizon Europe project Skills2Capabilities that took place in the uplifting surroundings in Venice.
10 Apr 2024
Conference: Vocational Excellence for a Green Europe
Join the GREENOVET team in this innovative conference (5–6 June 2024) in Graz to learn more about the role of VET in the green transition.
9 Apr 2024
Join us for a dynamic event: SKILLS HORIZONS
Meet the coordinators of more than 10 HORIZON Europe projects on skill development in one virtual event celebrating the closing of the European Year of Skills.
4 Apr 2024
Vocational Turn in Eastern Europe
In the current issue of the journal berufsbildung, Jörg Markowitsch writes about the development of vocational education and training in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
14 Mar 2024
Public Consultation on the FEAD
Take part in the public consultation on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD). The objective of the Fund is to alleviate the worst forms of poverty in the EU and to promote social inclusion.
22 Mar 2024
Improving ESCO as a reference system for the cultural and creative sectors and industries
A new publication issued by the Creative FLIP project suggests strategies to improve the representation of cultural-creative occupations and skills in ESCO.
12 Mar 2024
Record participation in CVET in Vienna
Career guidance and support services by waff were increasingly used in 2023. In a recent press conference, waff representatives and clients appeared together with Peter Hanke, City Councillor for Economic Affairs. Günter Hefler was invited as an expert.
12 Mar 2024
Towards zero long-term unemployment
A webinar organised by the ESF+ Community of Practice on Employment, Education and Skills puts the results of a recently published study on job guarantees up for discussion.
1 Mar 2024
Workshop: Future scenarios for CVET in 2040
In the Erasmus+ project “In-CVET 2040”, we are using the design fiction method to develop future scenarios for continuing vocational education and training and invite you to a transnational stakeholder workshop.
Winter 2024–2023
14 Feb 2024
Criticism of differences in the quality of traineeships
The European Court of Auditors criticises the different conditions for trainees across the EU and refers to the evaluation of the related Council Recommendation.
2 Feb 2024
She Chef — We Chef?
As part of our Digifonds project on film in vocational education, a film screening for students from the hospitality and tourism sectors took place at Stadtkino Wien on 1 February.