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This reflection workshop will focus on the needs of learning providers and ways to improve the quality of learning delivery.

The workshop is a follow-up to last year’s event and will help identify our work priorities in supporting learning providers for the next three years.

Take part in the discussion #learningproviders

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Cedefop and the OECD are co-organising a one day experts’ forum on the role of VET and VET-related measures to help adult refugees, including people in clear need of international protection, to quickly integrate in the labour market and on how countries have responded to the recent arrivals.

The event aims at supporting exchange of national experiences and discussing possible European VET and VET-related solutions that could support relocation of adult people in clear need of international protection on the European territory, favouring a rapid labour market integration and possible co-operation mechanisms between a transit country and a host country.

Discussions are expected to have both a technical and policy nature, and will be interdisciplinary with issues touching upon VET, active labour market policies and migration.

The event will bring together:

  • ministerial representatives involved in policy-making in the EU and OECD countries, but also experts in ministries that directly support this process;
  • representatives of the research community;
  • representatives of EU and international institutions, including the European Commission, European social partners, ETF, UNHCR and ILO.
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The second Policy Learning Forum (PLF) on the writing of learning outcomes in VET will build on the positive experiences from the 2015 PLF on the same topic, further deepening the exchange of experiences between national experts in this area.

The PLF will take into account the findings of the ongoing comparative study of learning outcomes based VET qualifications (carried out in a cooperation between Cedefop, ETF and UNESCO) and will be invited to discuss the first draft of the new Cedefop ‘Handbook on writing learning outcomes’.

The PLF provides a platform for European cooperation on the application of learning outcomes; allowing for the identification of common challenges as well as solutions.


Part of the European vocational skills week.

 

 

Take part in the discussion: #VETlearningoutcomes

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This joint Cedefop-UNESCO global skills conference aimed to discuss the implications of global economic trends and market forces for anticipated skill needs and mismatches, and the responses of education and training systems building on labour market intelligence.

The conference:

  • discussed how information on global trends in skill needs was used by countries to review and renew their education and training provisions and how qualifications frameworks (at sector, national, regional and global levels) could support coordination and dialogue between education and training including labour market actors across different regions of the world;
  • provided a platform for sharing best practices in skills anticipation and matching approaches and discussed possible ways forward;
  • offered possibilities for setting up and sustaining a modern infrastructure for data collection – a ‘data revolution’ – allowing robust analysis on anticipated skill needs with real-time labour market intelligence, contributing to the effectiveness of informed policy-making

Global policy priorities, challenges and applicable solutions which could be applied in different regions of the world were debated by experts in skills, along with representatives of governments and social partners in a series of discussions structured around two key themes:

  1. Global trends and skills: common forces, different challenges
  2. Education and training for a global economy: using informed decision-making to adapt to a new landscape
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The 14th ReferNet annual Plenary meeting will welcome the 30 new partners under the 2016-19 Framework Partnership Agreement, and the ‘National representatives’ in charge of validation.

The meeting will aim at informing on the latest EU VET policy developments, preparing the 2017 Work plan and sharing experience on the scope and process of validation. VET policy reporting, the Mobility Scoreboard and the Thematic perspective on outreach and guidance will feature on the agenda. Various cooperation models such as knowledge-sharing on EU VET policies, peer review, hands-on workshops and joint reflection will be used.

The annual meeting also offers a space for opening new channels of cooperation and communication between partners.

Take part in the discussion #refernet


  Part of the European vocational skills week.

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Since the late 1990’s, Cedefop has worked systematically on validation of non-formal and informal learning. It was time to come together to reflect on the past, look at the present and think of the future of validation in Europe.

On 28th and 29th of November 2016, Cedefop organised the conference ‘How to make learning visible: strategies for implementing validation of non-formal and informal learning’ in Thessaloniki, Greece. With over 200 experts from all over Europe, we discussed how to make validation of non-formal and informal learning a reality.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all participants for their involvement and active participation. All of you have contributed in making the event informative and interactive.

The conference produced a lot of material that will be used to inform European policies in the coming years! We have developed some videos and a brief summary with the main conference outcomes. You can access all presentations at the programme tab above. You can also find further information about validation at our project webpage.

Please feel free to share any of this information!


Any further inquiries on the topic can be directed to our expert Ernesto Villalba Garcia Ernesto Villalba Garcia

Don’t forget to follow updates through our twitter account and our #ValidationEurope hashtag, where you will find all discussions around the topic.

We hope to see you soon again!


  Cedefop's validation conference was part of the European vocational skills week.

 

 

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This first European vocational skills week will take place from 5 to 9 December 2016 with events in Brussels and parallel activities in Member States, EFTA and EU candidate countries at national, regional and local levels.

This is to improve the attractiveness and image of vocational education and training. To showcase excellence and quality and raise awareness of the wide range of opportunities.

A series of activities will take place in Brussels (press conference, 'VET for life' conference, workshops, European business forum on vocational training, closing event with award-giving) and across Europe.

Cedefop will be actively involved. You can register your event here.

Take part in the discussiοn #EUvocationalskills

Working with us
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AO/DLE/TCRs and flash TCRs on Apprenticeships/008/16
Closing date
06/09/2016
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AO/DSI/SPEV/Qualifications_EQF_levels_3&4/011/16
Closing date
08/09/2016
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AO/DIR/GKO/Stakeholder_feedback_services_PMS/010/16
Closing date
12/09/2016
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AO/DSL/VKVET-GRUSSO/Real–time LMI 2/009/16
Closing date
19/09/2016