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The ETF Forum for Quality Assurance in vocational education and training (VET) met with representatives of education and tranining authorities from Eastern Partnership countries,  on 21 December. 

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The European Commission launched a consultation process for the ESCO new major version (v1.1) which will include new occupations and skills that have appeared since ESCO’s launch in July 2017*.

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The ETF developed and implemented VET Governance inventory (2016 -2018). This tool was based on a widely acknowledged analytical framework- Data Collection Tool (DCT) that allowed to produce (20) VET...

The ETF developed and implemented VET Governance inventory (2016 -2018). This tool was based on a widely acknowledged analytical framework- Data Collection Tool (DCT) that allowed to produce (20) VET...

The ETF and European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) organised a new joint event to present the preliminary findings of the SELFIE Work-Based Learning pilots, providing key informa...

The ETF’s #LearningConnects sessions bring together speakers for an online conversation on key topics for the community of learners worldwide. Ahead of the ETF and IIAS’s high-level round table on...

We can be sharing with all of skilled & semi-skilled youth team globally for coordination of exchange & program development, most welcome everyone

Designing efficient self-assessment system concerning digital technologies application in secondary education institutions has been under consideration of education policy makers in Georgia well befor...

The Covid-19 crisis has strongly affected education sector globally. How did Montenegro manage to successfully pilot the Selfie WBL at a time when life was severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemi...

For the ETF, the creation of lifelong learning systems is essential to human capital development. Turkey’s current government plans to become one of the top-10 global economies and policymakers are...

This African proverb perfectly highlights the importance of being able to adapt yourself to what is coming. And I could not find a better expression to describe what SELFIE means for the Turkish VET s...

Platform economy, collaborative economy, sharing economy, on-demand economy, gig economy - while there are still discussions on terminology to describe the new reality, the phenomenon is growing and g...

1. Accept the phase of Distance-Learning and patiently and purposefully try to make the best of it.

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From March to June, it was a bit like a crash course for a broad-based e-learning scenario.

What was to be expected when school started in September?

Possibly the following:

The last months wer...

Fundația Europeană pentru Formare (ETF) în perioada 19-20 noiembrie a organizat webinarul online cu tema Colaborare pentru buna guvernanță a Învățământului Profesional Tehnic (ÎPT) pe mai m...

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of work-based learning (WBL) can be implemented along the four dimensions of the IPOO model: Input, Process, Output and Outcome. What does this imply? To begin at the b...

On December 4, the second international webinar was held, aimed at studying the experience of implementing innovative technologies in distance learning in the countries of Central Asia and the Europea...

On November 11, 2020, the first international webinar dedicated to the topic was held: "Current issues of distance and digital learning in Central Asian countries". The topic of the webinar was not ch...

A key ETF webinar “Working Together on VET Good Multilevel Governance in Moldova” was held on 19-20 November as a validation of all work done reviewing VET system governance in Moldova. Our review...

Public-private partnerships for skills development

This new ETF publication is the result of a comparative analysis of different public-private partnerships in the field of VET from a governance per...

The analysis of case studies in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Serbia, Turkey and interviews with key stakeholders informed the design of a methodology to scale-up and integrate the SELFIE tool at system l...

The European Training Foundation (ETF), in collaboration with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Children's Fu...

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Включает запись сессионного зала по направлению «Техническое обслуживание и ремонт автомобильного транспорта»

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Organized by the BILT project

This meeting revolves around the key aspects related to the identification, integration and implementation of new qualifica...

In the time of the pandemic, the CSOs are reshaping the way forward how to adapt to the new reality. Fast-moving global developments and Covid-19 disruption have forced CSOs to innovate rapidly, to...

Exploring Distance and Online Learning in Central Asia: What is happening with learning?

Session 2. 

This online regional gathering represented an important step in the Torino Process, a parti...

The MED Mediterranean Dialogues 2020 launches the second edition of the “Youth Forum Contest – Ideas and Project at Work” - realised by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Internationa...

ETF Teachers' Week

Most countries around the world resorted to some form of lockdown as an initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vocational education and training (VET) suddenly moved o...

Most of ETF partner countries have some sort of national databases or registers of qualifications. Many consider the possibilities of establishing new ones or have plans for their further developm...

Contemporary curricula today meet with the big challenge to find the best and most efficient ways to develop key competences without undermining the importance of occupational skills and competences....

Having just carried an extensive review of recent research on personalised and differentiated learning I have been asked to highlight what I believe are the most promising practices.  With so much re...

Drawing on a wide range of expertise, this discussion will highlight and debate possible avenues for generic/transversal and occupation-specific green skills. In line with Action 6 of the European Ski...

The Conference - “Centres of Vocational Excellence as engines for VET development” will launch the ETF Network for Excellence (ENE). 

ENE is  unique in being an international network of CoVEs in th...

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Creating New Learning (CNL) project of the ETF is conducting a review of its studies identifying the key trends on innovation in teaching and learning and the most i...

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We are a startup from Prague in Czech Republic, focusing on making it easier for educators and administrators to search for,...

In 2018, ETF launched more in-depth research into the CSOs' role in VET's multi-actor policy dialogue. The analysis was carried out in selected countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean...

The ETF started to appraise the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in implementing vocational skills in 2015. The first milestone was the knowledge exchange about the CSOs role in the vocation...

How should New Learning look like?

After attending our CNL meeting in order to validate the results of 5 reviews of different themes related to CNL, I came to the following conclusions.

Which elem...

Autonomy is the right of an education provider to self-governance involving independent and accountable decision making in educational, organizational, financial, staff-related and other matters in pu...

Dear all,

Yesterday, we did contribute to an exciting online meeting (yes, online can be exciting !) in which about 40 colleagues discussed in several rounds about the 5 reviews and their outcomes t...

The European Union (EU) considers Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as critical partners in its external actions in shaping strategies to improve local ownership of development processes. EU defines...

Labour Market Information (LMI) in Transformation 
Focus on Big Data for LMI
Webinar of the Make it Match Network and partners 
10 December 2020, 13.00-15.45 (Universal Time) corresponding to 1...

Dear Sir/Madame,

On behalf of the TRACK-VET project partnership, we would like to cordially invite you to the virtual conference: “Developing, assessing and validating transversal key competences...

In a recent study the University of Leuven (De Witte K. & Maldonado J.E. (2020). De effecten van de COVID- 19 crisis en het sluiten van scholen op leerlingprestaties en onderwijsongelijkheid. https://...

ETF organise un Webinar sur « L’avenir des compétences dans le secteur agroalimentaire marocain », qui se tiendra le 25 novembre 2020, de 10 h 00 à 13 h 00.  Il s’agit de la suite des atelie...

Fast-changing skills needs, racing technology, environmental degradation and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor all point to the need for quality career guidance to serve individuals and econo...

Запишитесь на наш вебинар 20 ноября 2020 г. 10.30 -12.00 (центральноевропейское время)

13 мая мы провели вебинар «Новые идеи для итогового оценивани...

Sign up for our webinar 20 November 2020 10.30 -12.00 CET

On 13 May we organised a webinar with the title New Ideas for Assessment, which looked at how countries were responding to the pandemic...