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  • Adult learning: empowering adults through upskilling and reskilling
    Project

    The purpose of this project is to support the design, diffusion and implementation of VET policies and measures helping adults, especially the low-skilled, to achieve the knowledge, skills and competences required for work, employability and lifelong learning.

    Related Theme
    VET knowledge centre
  • Adult refugee legal mobility
    Project

    The overall aim of the project is to expand protection and solution opportunities through complementary pathways of admission to Europe and legal intra-EU mobility. For this purpose, the project will design a VET, skills and qualifications supported complementary pathway mechanism; such a mechanism takes from the beginning VET, skills and qualifications into account as a way to support legal mobility of refugees and has the potential of increasing labour market integration possibilities in the medium to long run.

    Related Theme
    VET knowledge centre
  • Anticipating and matching skills
    Project

    Cedefop’s European skills and jobs survey (ESJS) has revealed that about 45% of EU adult workers believe that their skills can either be better developed or utilised at work. European policy that mitigates skill mismatch can thus be conducive to raising productivity and improving worker well-being.

    But better matching a country’s skill supply to the needs of its economy is a dynamic process that requires policies to increase education and training responsiveness to labour market needs. Mitigating skill mismatch in an era of fast-paced digitalisation, AI and automation requires a well-developed skills anticipation infrastructure in countries and an integrative approach to skills governance.

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    Skills and labour market
  • Apprenticeships in work-based learning
    Project
    Related Theme
    VET knowledge centre
  • Changing nature and role of vocational education and training (VET) in Europe
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • Comparing VET qualifications
    Project
    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • Digitalisation, AI and the future of work
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
  • Early leaving from education and training
    Project

    Cedefop conducts research and develops tools to empower VET policy-makers and practitioners to tackle early leaving from education and training (ELET).

    Related Theme
    VET knowledge centre
  • European Company Survey
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
  • European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET)
    Project

    The European Union (EU) has several common instruments helping individuals in transfer, recognition and accumulation of their assessed learning outcomes, to achieve a qualification or to take part in lifelong learning. The European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) is one of these instruments; it uses flexible and individualised learning pathways, including transnational mobility.

    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • European qualifications framework (EQF)
    Project

    The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) is a common European reference framework whose purpose is to make qualifications more readable and understandable across different countries and systems. Covering qualifications at all levels and in all sub-systems of education and training, the EQF provides a comprehensive overview over qualifications in the 38 European countries currently involved in its implementation. In close cooperation with the European Commission, Cedefop provides analytical and coordination support for the implementation of the EQF and carries out a number of comparative studies and analysis on issues related to the implementation of the framework at EU, national and sectoral level.

    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • European skills and jobs survey (ESJS)
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
  • European skills index
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
    Statistics
  • Financing VET
    Project

    The project's objective is to monitor EU member states’ strategies and mechanisms for financing vocational education and training (VET) and to investigate their effectiveness and efficiency. This site provides information on investment in VET and on developments in VET funding systems and instruments. The analysis focuses on cofinancing, looking at roles of different stakeholders in sharing costs and responsibilities in VET.

    Related Theme
    VET knowledge centre
  • Future of VET
    Project

    The Future of vocational education and training (VET) project, covering the 27 EU Member States as well as Iceland, Norway and the UK, will contribute to a better overall understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing European VET in the coming years.

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    Skills and labour market
    Delivering VET and qualifications
    National VET systems
  • Key competences in vocational education and training
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
    Delivering VET and qualifications
    National VET systems
  • Learning cultures in organisations
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
  • Learning outcomes
    Project
    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • Lifelong Guidance
    Project

    Lifelong guidance aims to provide career development support for individuals of all ages, at all career stages. It includes careers information, advice, counselling, assessment of skills and mentoring. Quality guidance services should be available to all individuals, regardless of their employment situation, socioeconomic status, ethnicity or gender. Cedefop’s lifelong guidance project develops research and knowledge exchange for the improvement of guidance and counselling across the European Union.

    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
    VET knowledge centre
  • Microcredentials for labour market education and training
    Project

    The project will provide a better understanding of the role played by microcredentials in supporting labour-market-related and employment-relevant education, training and learning. The project findings will offer new knowledge on the characteristics of microcredentials, their added value to individual learners and employees, as well as their impact on existing qualifications and recognition systems.

    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • Mobility Scoreboard
    Project
    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • National qualifications frameworks (NQFs)
    Project
    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
    National VET systems
  • Opinion survey on vocational education and training in Europe
    Project
    Related Theme
    Statistics
  • Quality assurance
    Project

    Quality assurance in VET is a key priority at EU level to promote increased transparency of VET policy developments between Member States, thereby enhancing mutual trust, mobility of workers and learners, and lifelong learning. In cooperation with the European Commission, Cedefop supports the implementation of the EQAVET Recommendation of 2009 at EU, national and sectoral level.

    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
    National VET systems
  • Reporting on European training policy
    Project
    Related Theme
    National VET systems
  • Skills and jobs for the green transition
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
  • Skills forecast
    Project

    Cedefop Skills Forecast provides comprehensive information on future labour market trends in Europe. The forecast acts as an early warning mechanism to help alleviating potential labour market imbalances and support different labour market actors in making informed decisions.

    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
  • Skills in online job advertisements
    Project
    Related Theme
    Skills and labour market
  • Teachers and trainers’ professional development
    Project
    Related Theme
    VET knowledge centre
  • Transparency and transferability of learning outcomes
    Project

    The project looks at European and national policy initiatives promoting transparency and transferability of learning outcomes of the past two decades (2000-20) to examine how they have supported individual citizens’ lifelong and life-wide learning. Over a period of 3 years (2021-24), the project will analyse how the diverse initiatives have increased flexibility, allowing individuals to enter, re-enter and combine education, training and learning according to their specific needs and circumstances. Potential future polices choices and their implications will also be explored through a scenario approach.

    Related Theme
    Delivering VET and qualifications
  • Validation of non-formal and informal learning
    Project
    Related Theme
    VET knowledge centre
  • VET in Europe
    Project
    Related Theme
    National VET systems
  • VET statistics and indicators
    Project
    Related Theme
    Statistics

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