EQAVET Peer Review Initiative

The European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET) emerged from the 2009 recom­men­da­ti­on of the European Parliament and Council and supports quality assurance in VET across Europe. EQAVET thus also con­tri­bu­tes to the imple­men­ta­ti­on of the Council Recommendation on Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Competitiveness, Social Fairness, and Resilience (2020). The Recommendation describes how EQAVET can be used to improve the quality of initial and con­ti­nuing VET and presents the full EQAVET framework.

In the imple­men­ta­ti­on of the network acti­vi­ties, the EQAVET Secretariat has central tasks. Karin Luomi-Messerer and Monika Auzinger support the Secretariat as experts and are respon­si­ble, among other things, for the pre­pa­ra­ti­on, imple­men­ta­ti­on and docu­men­ta­ti­on of peer reviews in the member countries. The aim is to take stock of existing quality assurance mecha­nisms in the national VET systems, identify chal­lenges and possible solutions from the EQAVET context. The peer review process is based on a metho­do­lo­gy agreed on by the Network and docu­men­ted in a manual that covers the main prin­ci­ples of EQUAVET peer reviews. In the course of 2023, a total of twelve such events are planned; ten already took place in 2022.