Quality of education and training

Teachers and trainers are the backbone of high-quality vocational education and training (VET). To deliver excellence and care for inclusion, they need continuous opportunities to update their technical, pedagogical and transversal competences. Cedefop supports the implementation of European strategic objectives for accessible, high-quality professional development for all VET teachers and trainers.

Quality assurance in vocational education and training (VET) is a key priority at EU level to improve the quality of VET systems, and increase transparency of VET developments between Member States, thereby supporting mutual trust, mobility of workers and learners, and lifelong learning in line with the Union of Skills initiative and more specifically the EU VET strategy and the skills portability initiative.

In cooperation with the European Commission, Cedefop supports the implementation of the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET).