Choosing fields of interest for your traineeship

The application form allows you to choose 3 Areas/Services in order of preference. Please explain why you wish to undertake your traineeship in a particular Area/Service. The choices available are:

• Directorate
• Legal Service
• Data Protection Officer (DPO)
• Area Research and Policy Analysis
• Area Enhanced Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Lifelong Learning (LLL)
• Area Communication, Information and Dissemination
• Finance and Procurement Service (Area Resources)
• Human Resources Service (Area Resources)
• ICT (Area Resources)
• Facilities (Area Resources)

To help you decide, please read the brief description below (for a more detailed description of areas and services, please consult our website).

THE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF CEDEFOP

Cedefop has a Directorate, 3 operational areas and 1 administrative area. The operational areas are organised as follows:

1)  Area Research and policy analysis

This Area carries out activities organised in two main fields:

• Research

This activity field consists of three main interlinked tasks:

• reporting on research (i.e. the Research Report, published every 3–4 years);
• statistics and indicators;
• cooperation and exchanges in research (i.e. early identification and anticipation of skills needs and its network, Skillsnet; the Cedefop research arena and ERO).

• Policy analysis, monitoring and reporting

This activity field consists of 2 main interlinked tasks:

• Policy analysis, monitoring and reporting (including eKnowVet);
• ReferNet.

2) Area Enhanced Cooperation in VET and LLL

This Area carries out activities organised in three main fields:

• Supporting the development and the follow–up of  common European concepts, policies  and tools in VET

Work includes:
• the recognition of learning outcomes, including support to the development of National Qualifications Frameworks;
• the development and implementation of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), including sectoral qualifications frameworks;
• teachers and trainers in VET;
• Quality assurance in VET, with a focus on SMEs and the quality approaches within sectors;
• Lifelong guidance;
• supporting the development and implementation of European Credit System for VET (ECVET);
• the further development of the Europass initiative in the Member States – in close cooperation with the European Commission – by encouraging interaction with related initiatives and tools (EQF, ECVET, sectoral initiatives).


• Consolidated Study Visits Programme
• Familiarising acceding and candidate countries to EU policies and tools

3)  Area Communication, Information and Dissemination

This Area carries out activities organised in two main fields:

• Communication and (web and print) content management

The activities include:

• design and implementation of a comprehensive communication strategy ;
• web and publication content management, including managing and implementing corporate identity. Development and updating of web and publication policy and web maintenance, pertaining to Cedefop –s web site, the ETV and the Intranet;
• development and management of PR activities, including management of relations to key accounts and relation to Greek authorities.
• management of publications;
• management of language support and translations.


• Library, documentation, registration and archives

4) Area resources

This Area comprises:

• Finance and Procurement Service
• Human Resources Service
• ICT
• Facilities
• Accountancy