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Autumn 2023

13 Nov 2023

DARYA: Dialogue and action for resourceful youth in Central Asia

International experts met in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for a peer-learning workshop on “Monitoring of skills demand for relevant qua­li­fi­ca­ti­ons” recently.

6 Nov 2023

Results of the TRANSVAL-EU project and outlook for community activities

The policy expe­ri­men­ta­ti­on project TRANSVAL-EU has come to a suc­cessful end. All reports are available for download and the Community of Practice for vali­da­ti­on and guidance pro­fes­sio­nals has been strengthened.

24 Oct 2023

Results from the project “International dimension of Centres of Vocational Excellence”

This final con­fe­rence seeks to discuss the findings of the EU-funded project on Centres of Vocational Excellence and a webinar provides insights for the broader public.

13 Sep 2023

Higher Vocational Education and Training in Austria — The Challenge of Classification

There has been intensive dis­cus­sion in Austria about new forms of higher voca­tio­nal education and training for a while. A recently published study deals with the pos­si­bi­li­ties of clas­si­fy­ing the qua­li­fi­ca­ti­ons to be acquired.


Summer 2023

14 Aug 2023

Research report on the impact of vali­da­ti­on of trans­ver­sal com­pe­ten­ces published

Read now the final report on the accom­pany­ing sci­en­ti­fic research in the TRANSVAL-EU project on the vali­da­ti­on of trans­ver­sal com­pe­ten­ces, which is coming to an end.

9 Aug 2023

Final report of ‘The Future of VET’ study published

The synthesis report of the three-year study on the “Future of VET” examines the evolving landscape of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Europe.

19 Jul 2023

Start of field work in Skills2Capabilities

After some pre­pa­ra­to­ry work in our Horizon Europe project, we use the summer months to kick-off field work in a work package analysing strategic policy documents on skills across selected European countries. 

26 Jun 2023

DARYA capacity building and peer learning event on reco­gni­ti­on and vali­da­ti­on of prior learning

Last week, the European Training Foundation invited to a three-day stake­hol­der seminar on reco­gni­ti­on and vali­da­ti­on of prior learning in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

16 Jun 2023

TRANSVAL-EU — final con­fe­rence in Stockholm

The stake­hol­der con­fe­rence entitled “Making All Skills Visible” focused on policy stra­te­gies on how to make trans­ver­sal skills visible and reco­g­nis­ed in practice.

7 Jun 2023

Making Erasmus+ more inclusive and diverse

Report on the needs, chal­lenges and practices of Erasmus+ National Agencies in the field of education and training on the topic of inclusion and diversity published.

6 Jun 2023

EXPECT — Sustainable voca­tio­nal education and training in the Netherlands

At the end of the Erasmus+ project EXPECT, the con­sor­ti­um members met in the south of the Netherlands.


Spring 2023

11 May 2023

New ETF report on trends in changing skills demand published

With this report on skill demand analysis, the ETF is anti­ci­pa­ting future trends and deve­lo­p­ments across all activity areas.