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The International Agency Working Group on Career Guidance (IAG WGCG) currently including Cedefop, European Commission, ETF, ILO, OECD, UNESCO and World Bank, has launched a series of webinars comprising career conversations with international career development experts who discuss leading issues with the IAG agencies.

While celebrating the European Year of Skills and with VET institutions striving to enable individuals to reach their full learning potential, 1 in 10 young people in Europe still does not qualify in upper secondary education (9.6% in 2022). These low-educated young people, known as early leavers from education and training, are more likely to experience lower levels of professional accomplishment, well-being and life satisfaction. They face an increased risk of becoming unemployed or inactive and are widely known as NEETs: people who are neither in employment nor in education or training.

This synthesis report, based on a survey carried out during 2022 with Cedefop’s reporting network ReferNet, aims to provide a better understanding of the phenomenon of early leaving from vocational education and training (ELVET). Such understanding is a necessary precondition for designing effective responses to help individuals to equip themselves with the appropriate skills to cope with future transformations and to thrive in life.

This report is the third volume of a Cedefop study on developing EU standards for monitoring and evaluating lifelong guidance systems and services, expanding the evidence base on outcomes and impacts of career development support. It aims at generating better understanding of the costs of publicly financed measures connected to career development and career guidance for adults.

Extending the scope of qualifications frameworks beyond formal education is a European trend that can strengthen the link between learning and the labour market and increase mobility.

The European Green Deal will lead to the creation of about 2.5 million additional jobs in the European Union, provided that its targets are met, and securing quality jobs and sufficient skills is pivotal to making this happen.

This report summarises the outcomes of the first (micro) phase of the thematic country review (TCR) on upskilling pathways in Italy. It reflects the perspectives of both the beneficiaries of the approaches considered and the actors involved in their implementation. The TCR focuses on outreach, guidance, tailored learning and on the crosscutting dimension of governance in relation to these three areas. 

European cooperation on vocational education and training (VET) is a success because the European Union has a clear vision about the future of VET, acknowledging its pivotal role in dealing with today's megatrends.

The European Year of Skills has been a great start, but to make and shape a just twin transition, we need a skills revolution, and that takes much longer than a year, Cedefop Executive Director Jürgen Siebel told the meeting of Directors-General for Vocational Education and Training (VET).

This report is part of a Cedefop project on developing European standards for monitoring and evaluating lifelong guidance systems and services (measures and activities). It proposes indicators according to type (input and process, output, outcome, impact), target elements (such as practitioner competence, client satisfaction, increased knowledge, and skills of service users) and characteristics for each indicator.

Supporting European Union Member States and national organisations to develop and implement vocational education and training (VET) and skills policies is a major element of Cedefop's mandate, and as part of that the Agency welcomed in Thessaloniki a delegation from Sweden's KFS-Företagens Trygghetsfond (The Job Security Council – Transition Fund) in Thessaloniki, for a knowledge exchange meeting on 1 September.

Cedefop is inviting vocational education and training (VET) institutions from 29 countries to become ReferNet partners and help take the network to its first quarter of a century of contribution to the exchange of knowledge and policy advice on VET in Europe.

In February 2024, Cedefop and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) organised the fifth Policy Learning Forum on upskilling pathways: a vision for the future.

The event took place at EESC premises in Brussels, on 06/02/2024 (09.30–17.00 CET) and on 07/02/2024 (09.00–13.00 CET).