Cedefop newsletter No 77 - February 2018

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Cedefop newsletter No 77 - February 2018

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ISSN number:

1831-5259

Main story:

Efficiency gains and sharing resources crucial for Cedefop’s core business

Cedefop Director James Calleja presented the achievements and future work of the agency in an exchange of views at the European Parliament in Brussels with the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the directors of the European Training Foundation, EU-OSHA and Eurofound on 21 February.

News from Cedefop:

Cedefop Director presents 2018 work programme at EESC

At a meeting of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels on 25 January, Cedefop Director James Calleja outlined the priorities of the 2018 work programme and gave a review of the previous year.

European Parliament delegation visits Cedefop

MEPs Anne Sander, Siôn Simon and Emilian Pavel, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL), visited Cedefop on 12 and 13 February and had a fruitful exchange of views with management and staff.

Cedefop Director James Calleja (right) and EESC's Pavel Trantina at the upskilling pathways policy learning forum in Brussels

Upskilling pathways discussed at joint Cedefop-EESC policy learning forum

Cedefop and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) jointly organised a policy learning forum (PLF) on ‘Upskilling pathways: a vision for the future’ in Brussels on 7 and 8 February.

Left to right: European Commission's Jan Varchola and Cedefop's Jens Bjørnåvold, Loukas Zahilas and Anastasia Pouliou

VET in the 21st century – Future trends and priorities

Cedefop's workshop on vocational education and training (VET) in the 21st century – future trends and priorities took place on 20 and 21 February in Thessaloniki.

Apprenticeship review: Greece

This publication is the final report of the thematic country review of apprenticeships (TCR) in Greece. The review took place between October 2015 and March 2017 at the request of the Greek Ministry of Education and the Greek Ministry of Labour.

National qualifications framework developments in European countries

The sixth Cedefop national qualifications framework (NQF) monitoring report confirms that NQFs play a key role in the European qualifications framework (EQF) implementation and in improving transparency and comparability of qualifications nationally and internationally.

Insights into skill shortages and skill mismatch

Skill shortages and skill mismatch are major concerns for policy-makers. The report calls on policy-makers to adopt a different mindset for tackling skill mismatch, focused on sustainable activation, continuous learning, job-task reengineering and promotion of higher-end product market/managerial practices.

Briefing note - Improving vocational education and training through data, analyses and exchanges

The European Union’s economic recovery has strengthened. But the economic downturn has accelerated long-term trends of globalisation and digitalisation that demand new skills.

Watch Cedefop ReferNet meeting participant interviews!

ReferNet partners talk about the most important vocational education and training/labour market policy developments in their country and their partner countries at the ReferNet annual plenary meeting on 29 and 30 November 2017 in Thessaloniki

Agenda:

First annual meeting of the European community of learning providers

13/03/2018 at 14:00 till 14/03/2018 at 17:00

Event

Thessaloniki

Greece

Cedefop involvement:

Organiser

Real-time labour market information and skill requirements

20/03/2018 at 08:30 till 21/03/2018 at 17:00

Workshop

Milan

Italy

Cedefop involvement:

Organiser

Skills anticipation methods and practices

14/06/2018 at 09:00 till 15/06/2018 at 18:00

Workshop

Thessaloniki

Greece

Cedefop involvement:

Organiser

3rd policy learning forum on defining, writing and using learning outcomes

21/06/2018 at 09:30 till 22/06/2018 at 13:00

Event

Thessaloniki

Greece

Cedefop involvement:

Organiser

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Items submitted by ReferNet, Cedefop’s European network for VET

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