Quality assurance
Quality assurance in VET is a key priority at EU level to promote increased transparency of VET policy developments between Member States, thereby enhancing mutual trust, mobility of workers and le
View ArticleForecasting skill demand and supply
Cedefop Skills Forecast provides comprehensive information on future labour market trends in Europe.
View ArticleLifelong Guidance
Lifelong guidance aims to provide career development support for individuals of all ages, at all career stages.
View ArticleAdult learning
Adult learning covers the entire spectrum of what we learn after leaving initial education and training.
View ArticleEuropean credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET)
The European Union (EU) has several common instruments helping individuals in transfer, recognition and accumulation of their assessed learning outcomes, to achieve a qualification or to take part
View ArticleEuropass
Europass is a portfolio of five documents, designed to make skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood across Europe.
View ArticleFinancing training
The project's objective is to monitor EU member states’ strategies and mechanisms for financing vocational education and training (VET) and to investigate their effectiveness and efficiency.
View ArticleEuropean qualifications framework (EQF)
The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) is a common European reference framework whose purpose is to make qualifications more readable and understandable across different countries and systems.
View ArticleAssisting EU countries in skills matching
Cedefop’s European skills and jobs survey (ESJS) has revealed that about 45%
View ArticleReporting on European training policy
In this project Cedefop monitors and analyses progress towards achieving targets in vocational education and training (VET) that have been agreed within the process of cooperation in VET since 2002
View ArticleTeachers and trainers’ professional development
Teachers and trainers working in vocational education and training (VET) are key actors to ensure its quality and relevance to today’s demands.
View ArticleVET in Europe
VET in Europe is the most comprehensive information resource on vocational education and training (VET) systems in Europe.
View ArticleLearning outcomes
The learning outcomes principle is - explicitly since 2004 - systematically promoted in the EU policy agenda for education, training and employment.
View ArticleValidation of non-formal and informal learning
The importance to Europe of skilled and knowledgeable citizens extends beyond formal education to learning acquired in non-formal or informal ways.
View ArticleSkills for the green economy
Environmental change is an increasingly important driver of labour demand and skills supply across all sectors.
View ArticleSkills Panorama
The Skills Panorama is an online central access point for data, information and intelligence on skill needs in countries, occupations and sectors across EU Member States.
View ArticleNational qualifications frameworks (NQFs)
Frameworks help to make qualifications easier to understand and compare.
View ArticleChanging nature and role of vocational education and training (VET) in Europe
The aim of the Changing nature and role of vocational education and training (VET)in Europe project is to improve our understanding of how VET is changing in the European Union c
View ArticleEarly leaving from education and training
Cedefop undertakes research and develops tools to empower the role of VET to the fight against early leaving from education and training (ELET)
View ArticleApprenticeships in work-based learning
Empowering young people by expanding and improving apprenticeships. Apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning help young people make smoother transitions from school to employment.
View ArticleMobility Scoreboard
The IVET mobility scoreboard is a tool for monitoring developments in IVET mobility policies and the implementation of the 2011 Council recommendation
View ArticleLearning cultures in organisations
To support development of learning at work in Europe there is a need to increase awareness of training and adult learning’s positive impact on ente
View ArticleOpinion survey on vocational education and training in Europe
In 2016 Cedefop launched its first ever opinion survey aimed at investigating European citizens’ opinions on Vocational Education and Training (VET).
View ArticleEuropean skills and jobs (ESJ) survey
The European skills and jobs (ESJ) survey, the first survey on skill mismatch carried out in the EU28 Member States, examines drivers of skill development and the dynamic evolution of skill mismatc
View ArticleEuropean Company Survey
Cedefop and Eurofound are sharing expertise and resources to carry out the next European Company Survey.
View ArticleSkills in online job vacancies
Information on skills employers demand from jobseekers can support citizens in making better career and training choices.
View ArticleDigitalisation and the future of work
Cedefop’s ‘Digitalisation and the future of work’ project analyses the impact and drivers of automation, robotics, artificial intelligence and other digital technologies on employment and changing
View ArticleKey competences in vocational education and training
The aim of the project is to support in-depth analysis of how key competences are integrated and promoted in vocational education and training (VET).
View ArticleAdult refugee legal mobility
The overall aim of the project is to expand protection and solution opportunities through complementary pathways of admission to Europe and legal intra-EU mobility.
View ArticleEuropean skills index
The objective of a skills system is not only to continually develop the skills of the population, but also to activate and effectively match these skills to the needs of employers in the labour mar
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