Empowering Tourism SMEs – PHOENIX 4.0
PHOENIX 4.0 delivers tangible benefits to tourism stakeholders by training and supporting at least 120 SMEs across Europe, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and supporting 45 collaborative projects addressing challenges like circular tourism services, the green transition, data-driven tourism, digital innovation, and accessibility. It will also create the Tourism SMEs Resilience Navigator, which will provide sustainability and […]
SMACITE Project Empowers Smart Communities through 11 National and European Workshops
Patras, April 9th, 2025 – The European project SMACITE (Boosting the technical and non-technical skills and competences of Smart Cities technicians and engineers), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, has successfully completed a series of 11 workshops across Europe to promote smart skills development and the adoption of emerging technologies in smart […]
EfVET attended MiCRET International Conference
14th – 16th April, Milan, Italy – EfVET attended MiCRET’s first project meeting and its International Conference hosted by Lombardini22 and Learning Digital to explore the role of microcredentials in addressing skill gaps in the renewable energy sector. EfVET is a partner of the MiCRET project – Microcredentials for Renewable Energy Technicians, which addresses labour […]
MICROIDEA – An innovative approach to micro-credentials in the Tourism sector Third Project Meeting, in Copenhagen
Between April 7th and 9th, all partners of the MICROIDEA project gathered in Copenhagen (DK) for the third Transnational Project Meeting. Hosted by the project’s Associated Partner 3F (Denmark’s largest trade union organisation), this meeting was a chance to celebrate the main achievements of the project reached so far, and to give an overview of […]
Supporting Young People in the Digital Transition
In September, EfVET, in collaboration with SEPR and the Métropole de Lyon, produced a report in collaboration with WorldSkills. This initiative was part of the Youth Forum 2024 held alongside WorldSkills, an event which brought together 1,400 exceptional young competitors, offering them a unique opportunity to showcase their talents in front of the entire world. […]
World Creativity and Innovation Day 2025
21st of April – Today, we celebrate the World #Creativity and #Innovation Day 2025, a global campaign to raise awareness about the role of creativity and innovation in all aspects of human development, to promote creative thinking, cultural, scientific and technological innovation. Creativity and Innovation can play a key role in developing novel ways to […]
EfVET attended All Digital Weeks 2025 Closing Event in Brussels
How to achieve European digitization that is inclusive, just, resilient, innovative, and guarantees European digital sovereignty? What is the digital future of the EU and how to build a digital society? How to also ensure a healthy approach, a digital detox from screen time to digital well-being? How to talk to teenagers and children about […]
EfVET attended the IV Vocational Training Forum of Valladolid, Castilla y León.
“Only training providers implement European VET” – EfVET’s President In a conference organised in Valladolid by the Ministry of Education of Castilla y León region, the President of EfVET Professor James Calleja insisted that “it is time to implement strategies and roadmaps for European VET. Several European countries, including Spain have taken the necessary measures […]
EfVET Tourism Thematic Team Annual Event 2025 in Annonay, France
The 2025 EfVET Tourism Thematic Team (TTT) annual event took place this year at SEPR’s Gastronomic School in Annonay, France. With the title “Local Wonders: Discovering Rural Practices”, speakers, key stakeholders, more than 60 delegates and participants met in SEPR’s gastronomic school, which has a sustainable rural tourism model. Key insights from the event: Compendium […]
EfVET attended TKNIKA VET Summit 2025
On 8-10 April 2025, TKNIKA invited EfVET Vice-President Stefano Tirati , Secretary General Valentina Chanina and EfVET Members to join the Vocational Education and Training Summit 2025: “Key to a Global, Digital, Inclusive, and Sustainable Future”, held the 8, 9 and 10 of April, to reflect on the role of key transitions Europe is undergoing […]