65
Cedefop newsletter
December
2016
ISSN number
1831-5259
Focus on European vocational skills week
Dear subscribers,
Last week, we experienced in Brussels and across Europe a highly successful European vocational skills week with more than 900 events and 650 000 participants. Cedefop is proud to have been an active partner of the Commission in supporting this first Europe-wide vocational education and training (VET) activity. Cedefop’s support to the European vocational skills week has been building up over the past few months through various activities organised to promote it. The policy learning forums on learning outcomes and on the professional development of teachers and trainers, the ReferNet plenary, the international conference on validation and the #CedefopPhotoAward were all activities that sought to attract participants’ attention to VET’s added value for jobs and for a better quality of life. As a strong believer in communication, the investment in the European vocational skills week can be described as ‘money down the brains’! We need to change the prevailing mindset that VET is a second option. Experience in several Member States clearly shows that where VET is strong unemployment is low. I hope you enjoy this second edition of Cedefop’s thematic newsletter.
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