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The European Training Foundation (ETF) and the Public Policy Public Policy and Management Institute (PPMI) organised a joint Expert Seminar on the new forms of employment and, in particular, the platf...

Education, training and labour-market systems are increasingly challenged by global developments such as new and rapidly advancing technologies, demographic changes and environmental degradation with...

“Physical education and extra-curricular activities should foster an ethical education by
teaching values such as fair play, cooperation, equity, equality, integrity, peace, human
rights, and respec...

We are happy to inform you that the Torino Process ETF assessment for Lebanon is now available in Arabic.

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below some resources about the topic of inclusion and social cohesion:

South Eastern Europe, Israel and Turkey - Trends, perspectives and challenges in strengthening...

We will be joined on Wednesday 13 January at 17:00 CET on the ETF FaceBook channel by:

- Sandra Ribeiro, President of the Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality

- Jason Laker, P...

N(N)LE International Business and Economic Development Center carried out implementation EU funded project on “Contributing to the formation of the agenda and institutional preconditions for enhanc...

‘Water and Beyond’ will deliver insights on how to strengthen transboundary cooperation, build broader partnerships and trigger water investments in support of the Sustainable Development Goals a...

The new ESCO major version is published for consultations. ESCO, a classification of European Skills, Competences, and Occupations, was designed to reflect knowledge and skills required for occupation...

In 2002(!) the SER (a main Dutch government advisory body) called for action to promote ‘’lifelong learning’’. The Dutch politicians embraced the recommendations immediately. Fifteen years lat...

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. 

T...

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*.

T...

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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The technology should support you and not replace yo...

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...

Запись вебинара - русский язык / Webinar recording - Russian language 

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

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Meeting webpage

Registration link (Zoom)

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...