All news


Spring 2022

23 Mar 2022

Public con­sul­ta­ti­on on the European Quality Framework for Traineeships

The 2014 Council Recommendation on the Quality Framework for Traineeships (QFT) urges EU countries to improve the quality of trai­nee­ships, in par­ti­cu­lar the learning content and working con­di­ti­ons, in order to ease the tran­si­ti­on to work. 

22 Mar 2022

First results from the TRANSVAL-EU project

Interim results from the first year of the project are already available 


Winter 2022–2021

14 Dec 2021

Review and renewal of qualifications

Research report from the Cedefop project “Comparing VET qua­lif­ca­ti­ons” discusses how this can be supported through the analysis and com­pa­ri­son of learning outcomes.

9 Dec 2021

New job profiles in mobility

Austrian study offers outlook on expected changes of jobs in the mobility sector as a result of digi­ta­li­sa­ti­on and automation.

21 Dec 2021

The future of digital learning in higher education

A reflec­tion paper provides a syste­ma­tic overview of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital and online learning practices in the higher education sector.


Autumn 2021

26 Nov 2021

EXPECT — Sustainable voca­tio­nal education and training in Great Britain

The fourth Peer Learning Activity (PLA) of the Erasmus+ project EXPECT took place in Brighton, England, after a long COVID break. 


Summer 2021

29 Jul 2021

11 years of ECVET — A review and outlook

A publi­ca­ti­on on the deve­lo­p­ment and imple­men­ta­ti­on of the ECVET system

19 Aug 2021

2nd EXPECT news­let­ter published

News from the Peer Learning Activities (PLAs) of the Erasmus+ project EXPECT on education for sus­tainable deve­lo­p­ment in European VET.

14 Jul 2021

Save-the-Date: Austrian Forum TRANSVAL-EU / 21 September 2021

Under the title ‛Between Employment & Employability — Validation of Transversal Competences’ the TRANSVAL-EU project offers an invi­ta­ti­on to an online event on 21 September 2021.

5 Jul 2021

European survey on the vali­da­ti­on of trans­ver­sal competences

3s invites you to par­ti­ci­pa­te in a short survey in the framework of the EU project “TRANSVAL-EU”.


Winter 2021–2020

11 Dec 2020

Learning outcomes in digital VET

Follow-up to an inter­na­tio­nal symposium now online

7 Dec 2020

International workshop on the future of voca­tio­nal education and training

With the support of 3s, the EU agency Cedefop organised a virtual workshop on chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties in VET from 26–27 November 2020.