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 […]
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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.
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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
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🤝 How can Peer Review support VET Excellence? What role does it play in strengthening Quality Assurance systems across Europe? 🖥️ Our upcoming online workshop “Enhancing VET Excellence through the European Peer Review methodology” is designed for VET professionals eager to boost their quality assurance processes. This dynamic session will dive into the European Peer
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🌍 What do VET practitioners think about Inclusive Excellence? Which paradigm shift is happening in our VET ecosystems? 🖥️ Our next Inclusive Vocational Excellence & Wellbeing Webinar will explore the experience of Inclusion and Excellence for the Finnish VET system. Hosted by Häme University of Applied Sciences, HAMK, the next webinar’s theme “Building Inclusive Social
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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:
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Turin, 12-13 March 2025 – EfVET participated in the ETF conference titled “Internationalizing Vocational Excellence”, marking an important step into the experience of the CoVEs. On this occasion, four members of EfVET were awarded with the Vocational Excellence Certificate. President of EfVET, Prof. Joachim James Calleja, commented with these words: “The ETF conference in
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,
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Why should we care about the ocean? What is our role and responsibility? This is the key question at the opening of the series of meetings for European Ocean Days 2025 EVENT REPORT – In line with the PoVE Water project, aiming at expanding the holistic approach to Vocational Excellence in the Global water sector
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is organising an online info session on 11 March 2025 to learn about the application procedure for the Forward-Looking Projects Call under the Erasmus+ Programme. — Join the online info session: https://ecconf.webex.com/ecconf/j.php?MTID=m566b0f8415d981600ae3cee3802684a3 — Forward-Looking Projects are large-scale projects that aim to identify, develop, test and/or assess innovative (policy)
On the 26th and 27th of February, 2025 the EfVET Secretary General, Valentina Chanina, was invited to the Erasmus+ Vocational Education Accreditation Meeting in Kocaeli by the Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education. This event brings together National Agency, Ministry of National Education and 31 schools holding Erasmus+ Vocational Education Accreditation, emphasizing our commitment to
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The EfVET Annual Conference 2025 is set to take place in Fatima, Portugal, from 22 to 25 October 2025, bringing together educators, researchers, and industry leaders to explore the future of vocational education and training (VET). This year’s theme, “Wellbeing in a Digitalised World – Crafting the Future of VET 2035,” highlights the intersection of
26 Feb. 2024 – EfVET participated in SMALEI’s (Sustainability Matrix for Adult Education Institutions) Final Conference “Empowering Adult Learning and Education for a Sustainable Future”, where the event bringed together distinguished institutional speakers and experts to discuss sustainability competencies, green policies in adult education, and practical tools for educators. The SMALEI Erasmus+ project and EfVET
19 Feb. 2024 – EfVET participated in the Cedefop seminar “making learning progression a reality”, in which they presented the key findings of its projects Ensuring transparency and transferability of learning outcomes, including alternative policy scenarios for lifelong and life-wide learning towards 2040. During the event, 5 different policy scenarios for lifelong learning were
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📣 20th of January – Today, we celebrate the World Day of Social Justice, an annual milestone for EfVET mission: recognizing the need to promote social justice, which includes efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion, gender inequality, unemployment, human rights, and social protections. 📌 This year’s theme, “Empowering Inclusion: Bridging Gaps for Social
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Brussels, 18th Feb. 2025 – The future of the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programs in the hands of their stakeholders The conference brought together more than 200 experts, including practitioners, policymakers and researchers, many from the VET ecosystem During the conference, EfVET advocated for a stronger Erasmus+ program, and in particular a stronger role
After one week of intense work hosted by the Solski Centre in Nova Gorica (Slovenia), the first Winter Camp on Vocational Excellence promoted by ETF in collaboration with EfVET, EVBB and EVTA came to an end. It has been an incredible pioneer experience of capacity building for more than 40 VET experts and practitioners, coming
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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
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At the conclusion of the activities for the Board of EfVET Meeting & the Executive Management Team meeting (Bari, Jan. 30-31, 2025 – Department of Humanities at the University of Bari Aldo Moro), we share a press review of national and local broadcasters who covered at media level with interviews, field reports, and short articles.
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The first meeting of 2025 successfully identified important themes and prepared for the key challenges of the new year Bari, 30-31 Jan. 2025 – The meeting of the Board of EfVET and the Executive Management Team, held at the Department of Humanities at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, brought together National Representatives and
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The Speak&Act project, part of the Erasmus+ initiative, focuses on integrating Public Speaking (PS) as a methodology for teaching and learning Citizenship Education in secondary schools. On January 22nd, the project’s final event took place at the Regione Umbria Venue in Brussels, showcasing its achievements and impact since its creation. The event opened with remarks
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Upcoming webinar, “Bringing the Science of Compassion in Technical Vocational Education Training” Ready for an overview of the field of Compassion Science? Next Inclusive Vocational Excellence & Wellbeing Webinar with Ryder Delaloye and Marius Luca will guide us through how the Science of Compassion is being woven into Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET). We’ll
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The Board Meeting brings together European representatives to discuss key aspects at the opening of the new year Bari, 30-31 January 2025 – The first 2025 meeting of the EfVET Board will be held in the historic city of Bari, in the Department of Literature and Language Arts of the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
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Preparations for the EfVET Conference 2025, scheduled to take place in Fátima, Portugal, from 22-25 October, are already in full swing. On the 16th and 17th of January, EfVET Secretariat and Conference Team representatives, Paolo Nardi and Ibon Rejas, visited our next hosts at the Escola de Hotelaria de Fátima (Fátima’s Hospitality School) to start
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The International Unit at the Directorate General for Vocational Education and Training is holding the 3rd International Seminar on Mobility and Cooperation Projects in Barcelona on 12th March 2025. 📅: International Seminar 12th March 2025 📅: Job Shadowing 13th and 14th March 2025 📍: Espai Bital, Barcelona — Register here: https://forms.gle/46X6JAeA2JHtT6up7 — The Seminar will be attended by European institutions involved
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We are happy to announce that Creative Skills Week 2025 will be held from 22 – 26 September 2025. Mark your calendars and get ready to join us in Prague, Czechia! Creative Skills Week 2025 will serve as a central hub for the Cultural and Creative Sector and Industries (CCSI), offering a dedicated platform for
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📣 24th of January – Today, we celebrate the International Day of Education, an annual milestone for EfVET mission: enhancing and improving technical and vocational education and training (VET), while promoting the principles of the LifeLongLearning (LLL) approach. This year’s theme, “Preserving human agency in a world of automation”, highlights the urgent need to
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Last week, the ENNEPlus project organised its transnational meeting in Madrid, hosted by FPEmpresa at their institute IES Clara del Rey. — Learn more: https://cop.enneplusproject.eu/social-hackademy/ — Discussions between 16 team members promoted effective coordination and collaboration to ensure the quality and successful implementation of the initiative in participating countries as well as the engagement of
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Online session report, 16th January, 2025 – The EfVET Internationalisation & Learning Mobility Thematic Team (TT) has recently launched its Coaches and Athletes initiative with a first introductory meeting that allowed the Coordinators of the TT and all registered Coaches and Athletes to present themselves and to set the course for what the next steps
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🔊 The EfVET Thematic Team Global VET is currently organising the annual Event of 2025, which will be hosted at Zadkine College, from 11 to 13 of March, in the heart of Rotterdam, Netherlands. It will be focused in discussing Global VET, a testament to our Global Outreach and Growth. ✔️ Agenda 🗓️ ✔️ Registration
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In this section we have selected and briefly summarized the key points of the new programme of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council that are relevant to EfVET’s activities and that will guide our upcoming and future activities. January 1, 2025 – For the second time, Poland assumed the Presidency of the Council
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Bonn, Germany – 12 December 2024 – A letter of intent for mutual collaboration and stronger coordination was signed between the European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (EfVET) & the International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNESCO-UNEVOC). The letter was signed at the presence of Stefano Tirati, EfVET Vice-President
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Brussels, Regione Umbria Brussels Office – December 9, 2024 – ALL DIGITAL convened a significant event to inaugurate their policy paper, Challenges and Proposals for an Engaged Digital Citizenship. As the document, this gathering spotlighted the critical issue of digital competencies in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. The event unfolded in two parts. The first one provided
The main purpose of Euro4VET project is to boost knowledge on how to teach European Union subjects in VET schools across Europe, by developing a training course for teachers (built on micro-credentials) and for students, with contents that will raise awareness for the relevance of being an active EU citizen, and for the existent EU
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📢 EfVET is continuing the activity on Inclusive Vocational Excellence and Wellbeing, and in particular: 1. A Community of Experts active on LinkedIn involving more than 400 people, free and able to exchange ideas, which can be our constant platform to have our dialogue, involving also other experts. 2. A webinar series where EfVET will
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💡 We are pleased to invite you to the “GLAD Online Seminar on Lifelong Learning Governance and Adult Learning within it” organised by the European Training Foundation (ETF). ⏰ The meeting will take place on November the 26th, 2024 from 11:00 to 12:30 Central European Time (CET). — 📅 Please download the agenda for this event. 💻 The meeting will be virtual via ZOOM. The language
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MICRO IDEA – MICRO-credentials – Identifying, DEveloping, testing and Assessing innovative approaches A EUROPEAN APPROACH TO MICRO-CREDENTIALS 📢 Join us in shaping the future of skills in the tourism sector! 📌 We are thrilled to invite you to the “Building the Future of Skills in the Tourism Sector” conference, dedicated to exploring the
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✨ ESMOVIA is pleased to invite you to the Final Conference of the European project EMoCC (European Mobility Career Counselling), which will take place in Milan on December 12th, 2024. The title of the final conference is Innovating Career Counseling for European Job Mobility. The conference will include plenary sessions and three parallel working groups, providing
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14 Nov. 2024 – EfVET participated in the 17th Cedefop Brussels seminar organised in cooperation with the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The seminar, titled “VET and higher education partnerships: towards excellence and inclusive growth”, addressed issues relevant to the EU debates on education, training and employment within the VET systems. The
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Between November 5th and 6th 2024, all partners of “BIRGIT” gathered in Brussels for the last time to participate in the final meeting of the project, one of its milestones. EfVET hosted Forma.Azione (IT), GISIG (IT), Asociación de la Industria Navarra (ES), University North (HR) and Novogit (SE), under the coordination of
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