EfVET President addresses Irish Principals and Deputy Principles in Dublin
Professor James Calleja was a keynote speaker at the 2025 FET Colleges Ireland Conference which was held at Knights brook Hotel, Meath. Over 130 Principals and Deputy Principals participated in the two-day conference. The event was organised by SOLAS Learning Works, the FET Colleges Ireland and NAPD the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals. […]
EfVET attended Cedefop’s event on Skills Intelligence
Brussels, 2 April 2025 – “Expanding real-time skills intelligence to accelerate Europe’s skills revolution”, an event organised by Cedefop, was held at the EESC Building in cooperation with Eurostat. EfVET participated in the high-level policy event gathering insights on skills intelligence for and from the VET ecosystem. — Download the full event report Alternative link: […]
EfVET Advocate for Vocational Training at the centre of the Union of Skills
The new European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, proposes a Union of Skills as part of its ambitious 100-day plan. Currently, only 40% of adults participate in education or training—far below the 60% target—and almost half of Europeans lack basic digital skills, despite 90% of jobs requiring them. Skills for work and life […]
Lessons learned during the #EUSocialForum25 in Brussels
Time to reflect and distill the notions learned during the #EUSocialForum25 in Brussels, which featured influential voices from Europe and beyond who shared inspiring visions, technical analysis, policy proposals, and a scan of the current situation in the VET system, labor market, and beyond. What is the future of the VET ecosystem, and what is […]
ETF Final Conference: Internationalizing Vocational Excellence
The experience of the CoVEs, born by a visionary idea of Joao Santos, is now showing its impact. The ETF conference “Internationalizing Vocational Excellence” marks an important step into this journey started 6 years ago. EfVET is present with an important delegation, including the President, EfVETBoard representatives, a group of members (from Armenia, Cyprus, France, […]
EfVET Magazine March 2025: Call for Articles
EfVET Magazine will be gathering items regarding the theme of “Excellence in VET: the Breath of Innovation” for the March 2025 Magazine. The deadline is the 3rd of march. — Check our magazines at https://efvet.org/magazines/ — As mentioned by the European Commission in the launch of the Centres of Vocational Excellence Program, “Vocational excellence usually […]