All news


Summer 2021

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.

11 Dec 2020

Launching EXPECT: a new project on sus­tainable VET

The two-year Erasmus+ research project EXPECT focuses on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the field of VET.


Autumn 2020

14 Oct 2020

Reforming qua­li­fi­ca­ti­ons systems. Are ETF inter­ven­ti­ons effective with their neighbours?

A recent online publi­ca­ti­on assesses the effec­ti­ve­ness of the European Training Foundation’s acti­vi­ties in sup­port­ing the reform of qua­li­fi­ca­ti­ons systems in EU neigh­bou­ring countries.


Winter 2020–2019

21 Feb 2020

European Inventory on Validation: 2018 Update

The just published 2018 update of the inventory on vali­da­ti­on of non-formal and informal learning is a unique record of how vali­da­ti­on is being used natio­nal­ly, regio­nal­ly and locally across Europe. It contains the state of play and an overview of deve­lo­p­ments for 36 countries, illu­stra­ted by good practice examples.