This is the first national Further Education & Training (FET) Strategy for the Green Transition and aims to shape the response and contribution of the sector towards meeting Ireland's climate action targets to halve Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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The strategy was developed by SOLAS, in partnership with consultants KPMG and in consultation with Ireland's sixteen (16) Education and Training Boards (ETBs), public bodies, government departments and key industry stakeholders. The strategy examines crucial sectors including construction, agriculture, transport, energy, hospitality, and finance, identifies critical skills gaps, and presents strategic and sector specific recommendations. The strategy also outlines ways in which FET can equip...
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
To highlight the opportunities for Vocational Education and Training organisations to enhance Transversal Skills through participation in Erasmus+ funded mobility projects and examine the value of Erasmus+ mobility opportunity as a mechanism for the acquisition of Transversal Skills for VET learners and staff.
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The above report was carried out under the direction of the National VET Team. VET Team is a national panel of key experts from across the Further Education and Training sector that advises Léargas on VET practice, policy, recognition and accreditation of skills. The purpose of the VET Team is to promote and support the implementation of EU VET tools in projects funded by Erasmus+.
The report explored the concept of transversal skills to establish consensus in terms of definition and identify...
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The National Education System Development Plan for the period up to 2027 aims to support the internationalisation of VET through calls for participation in mobility for educational staff and learners, and developing a strategy for the internationalisation of VET.
Key indicators are defined as:
number of learners in VET involved in mobility activities;
number of educational staff in VET involved in mobility activities.
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Internationalisation of VET involves supporting international mobility for educational staff and learners, as well as transnational cooperation among VET providers, particularly through the Erasmus+ programme. Through mobility and transnational cooperation, learners will strengthen their language, digital, and other skills while gaining the opportunity to undertake work-based learning abroad, and teachers will enhance their teaching skills. This measure will also support transnational...
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It is important to develop professional collaborations that involve students and teachers in Hungarian vocational training in regions outside the borders. This can generate a positive trend in the labour market, that would strengthen the integration and the relations of Hungarian vocational training in Hungary and beyond.
The goal is to support the development of the professional and general skills of Hungarian communities beyond its borders in a way that matches increasing European and...
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The working group of the VET Innovation Council, Vocational training development in the Carpathian Basin, mapped future opportunities. The working group carried out the mapping between 2021-22. At its November 2022 meeting, the VET Innovation Council adopted the findings and proposals of the working group. The department responsible for VET development of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation has already started to elaborate the concept for the development of vocational training in...
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BMBWF, which is responsible for the VET schools (i.e. three- to five-year school-based VET programmes), is pursuing the following specific goals with the establishment and further development of a structure for increased internationalisation in VET:
promotion of international competences among students and teachers;
supporting VET schools in implementing their internationalisation projects/strategies;
promoting the European and international dimension in VET schools;
promote Erasmus+...
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The Erasmus+ VET team Austria, located at OeAD, the Agency for Education and Internationalisation, plays an essential role in pursuing these goals. This is a network of professionals with expertise in European VET topics and Erasmus+. OeAD, in cooperation with BMBWF, has defined the following procedure in connection with the above objectives.
Activity 1: Status quo survey and feedback from practitioners
In the course of this activity, interviews with practitioners from Boards of Education and...
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Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF)
Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD)
The Federal Government wants to support further the development of VET in the partner countries and to strengthen Germany's international cooperation in VET. The aim of the Federal Government's bilateral VET cooperation is to help partner countries effectively integrate elements of practice-oriented or dual VET into their respective systems by sustainable support in line with the partner country's context and needs. Another objective is to support German companies abroad in their efforts to...
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The subject of bilateral VET cooperation is usually the intentions of a partner country to reform its VET system. Project funding in international VET cooperation serves to make expert knowledge and implementation competences from Germany available to the partner countries. Examples of good practice are developed and tested on various VET topics and can stimulate reforms in the partner countries. Pilot projects are funded by BMBF, which regularly publishes relevant funding guidelines to...
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Federal Foreign Office (AA)
UNESCO-UNEVOC
Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK)
With the Excellence Initiative for vocational education and training (VET), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing targeted impetus for a necessary boost in attractiveness and modernity. The aim is to contribute to the necessary change in society's appreciation of VET. The Excellence Initiative for VET is a crucial part of the Federal Government's skilled labour strategy.
The initiative aims to increase the attractiveness of VET for all young people. A special...
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With the Excellence Initiative for VET policy projects are combined into an overarching agenda. Individual activities will be launched successively during 2022 to 2026. Over EUR 750 million have been earmarked for this purpose.
In order to give new impetus to VET, the Excellence Initiative focuses on three central fields of action.
Improving individual opportunity support for talents in VET, to ensure that skilled workers and young people can develop their potential in the best possible way:
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Portugal's participation objectives are in line with those of these skills competitions:
reinforcing the value of integrating worldwide standards of excellence in vocational training performance;
enhancing the social status of vocational training, encouraging the recognition of vocational paths as successful alternatives for insertion into working life;
promoting new technology-based skills, strategic for the development of the economy, according to European and worldwide evolutionary standards;
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WorldSkills and EuroSkills are aimed at all young people aged between 17 and 25 who have completed or are attending a qualification programme in vocational education and training. They aim to demonstrate the individual level of skills, rigour and mastery of techniques and tools for the exercise of each profession in the competition, through practical performance tests evaluated according to demanding criteria and in accordance with internationally established technical prescriptions by...
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Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP)
The strategy views Norwegian participation in Erasmus+ and the European Education Area as crucial for increasing the quality and relevance of education, and believes that this contributes to solving major societal challenges related to inclusion, diversity, digital and green transformation. The government is aiming at wider participation in Erasmus+, so Norway can make full use of the opportunities offered by the programme.
The government has set the following goals for participation:
to...
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The strategy is focused on strengthening and improving Norwegian participation in Erasmus+ and the European Education Area, in order to provide more learners, youths and students, teachers and staff with opportunities for intercultural learning and exchange in Europe. The quality of education and training is to be further developed through international cooperation.
The government also wants more Norwegian interests to be able to cooperate with the best environments in Europe in order to...
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The programme aims to develop micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Portugal by strengthening the professional skills of their employees in those areas.
The main objective is to qualify and train human resources in order to:
increase their employability, promote the integration of unemployed people in companies and contribute to preventing the risk of unemployment, in the case of the employed, and simultaneously increasing their contribution to the success of the employer's...
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The training courses are part of the national catalogue of qualifications (CNQ) and the training content is included in the thematic area of internationalisation.
The programme training is composed of a set of short-duration training units (UFCD) of the CNQ with a maximum duration of 350 hours.
Whenever deemed useful and pertinent, although not mandatory, the training paths, available online or face-to-face, may be complemented by work-based learning (WBL), with a minimum duration of 140 hours...
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Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP)
Portugal Global - Trade and Investment Agency (AICEP)
National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education and Training (ANQEP)
To improve the quality of VET and diversify its learning opportunities through internalisation and learning mobility.
To monitor and further expand the use of mobility opportunities.
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The following measures are foreseen:
promoting learning mobility in VET: supporting the internationalisation of VET, including support for the implementation of Europass, improving data collection and analytics, monitoring and analysis of learning mobility;
participating in Erasmus+ and other development and cooperation projects, and mobility schemes to mobilise best international experience;
participating in EU-level debate and development activities on the creation of key profiles for VET in...
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The Ministry's long-term objective and task is to create conditions for all higher education institutions to provide quality education to students in full-time, combined and distance forms of study, as well as through lifelong learning courses that are open to the general public; to carry out research, development, artistic and other creative and professional activities, the outputs of which will support the social, economic and cultural development of the country; and, to make higher...
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The SP2021+ formulates a general vision for higher education and its significance for society.
Six priority objectives have been set:
develop competences directly relevant to life and practice in the 21st century;
improve the availability and relevance of flexible forms of education;
improve the efficiency and quality of doctoral studies;
strengthen strategic management and the effective use of capacities in research and development at higher education institutions;
build capacity for the...
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To improve approaches to developing and implementing VET curricula and examination as well as recognition of prior learning.
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VET provision, curricula, examination
In December 2016, the ESF project 'Development of sectoral qualifications system for vocational education development and quality assurance' was launched to develop new occupational standards and modular VET programmes for most of professional qualifications (sectoral qualifications).
In 2017, amendments to the Vocational Education Law specified the legal framework for the modularisation of VET programmes. VET modules were included in the State vocational...
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The aim of the measure is to establish, through bilateral governmental or other types of agreement with EU member countries and third countries, short and long-term VET mobility programmes to boost and support global economic cooperation and workforce mobility, and to promote professional skills that can be acquired in the Hungarian VET system.
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Based on the example of the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship created in higher education, the mid-term VET policy strategy 4.0 envisaged creating and operating a VET Stipendium Hungarian Scholarship.
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to inspire innovation in learning, as well as continuous improvements to governance and business processes, and the use of state-of-the-art technologies;
to encourage a socially responsible approach towards the surrounding environment, customers, employees, clients and the public;
to open up programmes to employees and the public, while enabling the adoption of transparent and clearly communicated decisions;
to help ensure employees are experts in their fields;
to achieve a high level of...
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In 2017, the EU allocated as much as EUR 25.7 million for implementation of the Erasmus+ programme in Lithuania. Almost 900 eligible applications were submitted for grants in the country per year. Some 297 education and training applications were received in 2017. A sum of about EUR 11 million was allocated to higher-education establishments; more than EUR 3.5 million to VET institutions and about EUR 500 000 to general education schools. Pupils, students and education staff participating in...
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The objective is to strengthen Nordic cooperation and ensure continuous safety in the Nordic region.
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This paper discusses the most important development features of Nordic cooperation. The first chapter describes a number of measures that have been implemented in recent years to follow up the government's goal that Nordic cooperation should be developed and strengthened. In the second part of the report, the government, based on current societal challenges, highlights how we can work to ensure the Nordic region remains safe. The Nordic countries cooperate on education and research projects...
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The priorities of the VET system development programme 2016-20 are directed at increasing relevance, quality, excellence, attractiveness and inclusion, as well as the international dimension of VET.
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The VET system development programme 2016-20 provides the strategic framework for VET development and reform. The programme was adopted by the Croatian Government in September 2016 and a related action plan was adopted two months later by the ministry responsible for education. It is planned according to the following principles:
quality assurance, which will increase the transparency of VET, strengthen confidence in the system and lifelong learning;
partnerships, which will ensure and...
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TPR is primarily aimed at strengthening the capacities of EQAVET national reference points (NRPs) and VET providers in quality assurance at European and national levels. It complements national quality assurance mechanisms and also drives reflection on the national quality assurance framework based on the transnational exercise.
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The Agency for VET and Adult Education (ASOO) is involved in a transnational peer review exercise in cooperation with three other EQAVET NRPs. In 2017, five quality areas along with the corresponding quality criteria were examined in one transnational peer review meeting and follow-up consultations. In 2018, four quality areas were revised (Pedagogical framework and planning the pedagogical process, Teaching and learning, Assessment and certification, and Learning results and outcomes) and a...
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A national team of ECVET experts is in place since 2014 to promote general understanding of ECVET principles and provide informative support to vocational schools.
In 2017-18, several seminars and an international conference were organised with the participation of ECVET experts on the practical application of ECVET principles. In 2018, ECVET National experts prepared the e-brochure Why ECVET, and organised a webinar addressed to representatives of vocational and adult education, teachers,...
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The overall aim of the activity is to raise the overall competitiveness of Latvian VET system and VET providers, with a particular emphasis on Baltic collaboration. Internationalisation has been set as a priority in individual development strategies 2021-27 of VET institutions. BAfA aims to share experience in implementing vocational education reforms in the Baltics, with the focus on introducing work-based learning and apprenticeships, and to promote examples of good practice.
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In 2014, the Erasmus+ project National authorities for apprenticeships: Implementing work-based learning in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (WBL-Balt)' was launched, led by the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science. The project partners were: the Ministry of Education and Science (Latvia), Employers' Confederation of Latvia, National Centre for Education (Latvia), Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia, Ministry of Education and Science (Lithuania), Qualifications and Vocational...
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Ministry of Education and Science
The Association of Mechanical Engineering and Metalworking Industries of Latvia
Fostering cooperation between higher education and economic sectors to match supply and demand for qualifications more effectively, and expanding the trades and qualifications campuses initiative were among the national policy priorities in VET for 2016-20. The second generation of campuses aims at establishing VET as an excellence pathway, strengthening the linking between the world of education and the world of business. It is part of the actions taken under the continuing reform of May...
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In the reporting period, the initiative was further extended through labelling 95 campuses covering 12 growth and job-creating sectors: food and food-processing; chemistry and biotechnologies; creation, design, audiovisual; infrastructures, construction, eco-construction; materials, innovative materials; mobility, aeronautics, terrestrial and maritime transport; digital, telecommunications; business services, logistics; innovative services, mechatronics; tourism, gastronomy; energy...
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Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research
Ministry of Labour, Full Employment and Inclusion
Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
Ministry of Economy, Finance and Recovery
Ministry of National Education and Youth (until 2024)
Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports (from 2020 till 2022)
Ministry of Labour, Employment and Professional Integration (until 2022)
The aim of the measures is to provide legal security to both employers and training organisations that offer alternance training schemes involving training mobility abroad.
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Apprentice mobility was enshrined in the Labour Code (2017). New legal provisions have come into force, aimed at removing obstacles to long-term mobility in Europe for apprentices and trainees in alternance training schemes. Recent laws reforming the Labour Code (March 2018) and vocational education and training (September 2018) include measures that apply to all young people under the apprenticeship contract (contrat d'apprentissage) and the professional development contract (contrat de...
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Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research
Ministry of Labour, Full Employment and Inclusion
Delegate Minister for VET under the education and labour ministers
Erasmus+ National Agency (Erasmus+ France Education and training)
Ministry of Labour, Employment and Professional Integration (until 2022)
Ministry of National Education and Youth (until 2024)
Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports (from 2020 till 2022)
The Strategic plan for vocational training aims to make VET more responsive to the needs of the productive system, meeting skills demands in a quick and prospective way.
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The new government, in power since June 2018, reorganised the administration. The change of name in the education administration state, now the Education and Vocational Training ministry (previously Education, Culture and Sports), reflects the new strategy to promote VET. In October 2018, the Government presented the Strategic plan for vocational training under education authorities. In February 2019, the Council of Ministers published the Agenda for change (Agenda del Cambio). The agenda...
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Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (until 2023)
Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports
The objective of the new quality assurance approach is to support continuous improvement in teaching and learning and quality assurance in VET institutions. Transforming the accreditation process into a quality assessment process aids the development of a learning-centred school culture and increases the credibility of VET.
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A working group was set up to review the national approach to quality assurance. The group was composed of representatives of the education ministry, employer and employee organisations, VET schools and other partners.
In 2017, the group presented a proposal concerning changes in the assessment criteria and in the procedures and principles for the quality assessment of VET. Based on the working group's proposal, and in line with the EQAVET Recommendation, amendments to the Vocational...
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Ministry of Education and Research
Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (until 2022)
The objective of the funding programme is to ensure the quality of training and thus increase its attractiveness and to enable young people to have equal access to training, irrespective of gender, origin or personal disadvantages.
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Since 2016, the Austrian Economic Chamber, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW), has funded up to 100% of the costs of projects supporting quality, gender equality and social integration in apprenticeships:
the quality strand addresses quality management and quality assurance in apprenticeship training, including training tools, innovative testing methods and competence checks, and quality assurance of dual VET;
the gender equality strand addresses...
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Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO)
Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) (until 2022)
Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection (until 2020)
