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#GLADnetwork is moving to a next stage. In June it will launch an analysis of work-based learning and social partnership in South East Europe, in July it will share knowledge and practice on participa...

Since its inception in 2017, the ETF Forum for Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been one of the effective tools to strengthen cooperation amongst EU partner countries...

The European Training Foundation (ETF) is launching a new round of the Torino Process with a specific focus on monitoring the performance of education and training systems in a lifelong learning persp...

We are pleased to inform you that the ENE initiative on Digitalisation is organising a webinar dedicated to Digital Pedagogies on 31 May 2022 from 11.00 to 14.30 CEST.

DIGI ENE is one of the initia...

We are pleased to inform you about the to the online event ETF Network for Excellence - GRETA - Greening Responses to Excellence through Thematic Actions, taking place on Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 12:00...

The (re)School Sprint '22 SHOWCASE EVENT took place last Friday. A wonderful community of education dreamers from all over the world met to share what they had been working on for 2 weeks. Watch a...

The ETF launched GLAD to offer a space to exchange on governance of VET, LLL, Skills development, learn form different countries’ experience, co-organise small activities and engage the diversity of...

On 19 May, the members of the ETF Forum for Quality Assurance will gather online to have a deep-dive into the Montenegrin Strategy of Vocational Education and Training system, and the Quality Assuranc...

Did you know that “Skills Week” in Albania is initiated by Albanian Skills- National Association for Skills Competitions on 2018, inspired by the European Vocational Skills Week launched by Europe...

ETF NETWORK OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

SISI: SHARING INNOVATION IN SOCIAL INCLUSION

📌Blended Peer Learning Visit - hosted by the School of Hospitality and Tourism in Tirana, May 18 ( at the p...

I have the honour to accompany and mentor two exciting projects that have been taking place at the Aviation Academy in Belgrade during the past weeks (The Collaborative, authentic and personalised ped...

WorldSkills International is an international organization founded in 1950 and recognized by the United Nations.
Since its inception, WorldSkills has built an impressive presence on the world stage o...

To share the entreTime experience on how to embrace entrepreneurship into teaching  and reflect on design principles and maxims for innovating in the establishment & maintenance of learning resilien...

This training seminar is organised for the staff of the pedagogic institutes from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is composed of a series of 4 online sessions that will complemented by a face-to-face works...

Are you curious about what the teams are developing during the (re)School Sprint 2022? Then join us for the SHOWCASE EVENT on May 13th. You will have the opportunity to discover what teachers, sch...

The ARISE project is holding an ARISE webinar on "Using digitalisation to overcome vocational exclusions for training".

This webinar will present BIMcert and ARISE toolkits which provides an agi...

On Wednesday 27 April 2022 we organised the webinar 'New roles and competences for contemporary educators - introducing the ETF READY Model'. 

The ETF READY Model (Reference model for Educators' ...

Are you keen to internationalise your agri-food business?

We can help you!

- If your company is in #Albania, #BosniaAndHerzegovina, #Kosovo, #Montenegro, #NorthMacedonia or #Serbia, "Create the F...

ETF, UNIDO and Schneider Electric share their knowledge on the skills need for energy transition (in and out of EU), learn from and engage with other researchers, policy makers and practitioners, and...

Register now for this upcoming EntreComp Europe Open Space Webinar

Thursday 5 May 10:00 – 11:15 CEST
Online in English & Spanish

The Spanish Chamber of Commerce and the EntreComp Europe Practice...

This meeting aimed to present and discuss the first draft of the National Implementation Plans and the selected priorities of the five EU Candidate Countries and to present the Torino Process in the S...

This blog post addresses three areas of assessments and learning behaviour. The first area describes the importance of assessments and their contribution to learning. The second area deals with the in...

On this World Creativity and Innovation Day, how much does your school emphasize on creativity and innovation skills?

"Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should trea...

Deadline extended until 1 May

Would you like to contribute to the development of better skills anticipation tools? Would you like to transform your ideas into actions and share your knowledge with o...

🌍 Experts at Imperial College London have warned about the rise of "eco-anxiety" among children. They also highlighted the fact that "for the eco-anxious, more concerning than even this apocaly...

On the 3 March, ETF ENE team with Shimon Peres High Tech school from Israel organised the SISI: Virtual Peer Visit to Shimon Peres High Tech and Arts High School, Tel Aviv, blended Peer Learning with...

On the 1 of April, Istanbul Turkey Ministry of National Education jointly with ETF ENE team and one of key Turkey member: Tink Technology & Humanity College, Istanbul, organised the blended Peer Learn...

Ukrainian version below

Education, training and labour market systems are increasingly challenged by global developments such as digital transformation, globalization, demographic change, climate ch...

Grades are seen as a way to give feedback to students, help them understand their strengths and weaknesses, where they stand in the class. It helps rank students, sort them for university admissions,...

GEMnet, the network for supporting girls in STEM education, invites you to a 1-hour-crash-workshop on

“Gender, identity, and intersectionality in STEM education”

This workshop provides you with an...

Tell me and I forget,

Teach me and I remember,

Involve me and I learn

- Benjamin Franklin

Studies indeed show that engaging students in their learning process increases their attention a...

Heraclitus famously claimed that the ever-present change, known in philosophy as "flux", is the characteristic feature of the world. Education, training, and lifelong learning are not an exemption €..

The Women Economic Forum estimates it will take 140 years to close the gender gap with the current trends, but what about the Digital Gender Gap?

The webinar will present a few digital tools and tea...

We often hear that, in order to keep up with the many changes taking place in our societies and education systems, 21st Century educators must change their role and practices, evolving from a "gate-k...

There has been encouraging progress in the validation of non-formal and informal learning across the European neighbourhood, new research by the European Training Foundation has revealed. Developments...

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn” said Albert Einstein. Not teaching when you are a teacher might seem counter-intuitive, but is it that s...

As I explained in a previous post, this year our school created a new space, the entrepreneurial classroom, to train and develop entrepreneurial skills in our students, according to the EntreComp de...

Last Friday 25 March the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) adopted Agreed Conclusions on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of clima...

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

The conference was held online on 1 December 2021, with around 160 participants from the six Western Balkan countries (WB6), regional organisations, EU institutions and intern...

In the first three months of 2022, the Amal and Ort school educational networks, the two leading high schools chains in Israel, conducted a qualitative process of looking at READY (Reference model for...

NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM IN AZERBAIJAN

In the context of changing labour markets and more frequent requirements for skills development and transitions over a lifetime, ETF initiate...

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in

Leonardo da Vinci

We indeed see that interested students tend to work harder, to pay more attention, and to empl...

Најбоље промене у школама се дешавају када су наставници део те промене!

Тренутно сам укљученa у ЕТФ пројекат за подршку иновацијама у наст...

The best changes in schools happen when teachers are part of that change!

I am currently involved in an ETF project to support innovation in teaching and learning in Serbian vocational schools....

NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM IN ARMENIA

Never before in history has career guidance been so important. In face of labour markets disrupted by changing work organisation, digitalisation...

As I explained in a previous post, this year our school created a new space, the entrepreneurial classroom, in order to train and develop entrepreneurial skills in our students, according to the Entr...

A solid set of employment support services to job seekers has emerged on the political agenda recently in Georgia. Some recent youth surveys studying education to work transitions, found that most of...