Micheline SCHEYS is Project manager - interface between education and labour policy within the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training in Belgium.

Micheline Scheys, a sociologist and former researcher, has been at the forefront of education and training policy-making for the past 15 years. She advises the minister, grounding strategic objectives and measures on trends in broader society, international education policy and innovative developments in relevant scientific fields. She is also responsible for the short- and long-term planning, the co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation of policies.

As project manager at the crossroads of the policy areas education and training, labour and culture, she develops plans for the development and implementaition of the overarching delivery strategy for lifelong learning. Her project aims at reinforcing the gearing of education and training for the labour market and vice versa, thereby ensuring the continuity and communication across sectors regarding the development of a National Qualification Framework, the Recognition of Prior Learning, the education and training supply, the possibilities for quality workplace-based learning etcetera. Through her membership of the DGVT and of the GB of ETF and CEDEFOP, she assists at developing VET in an European context.