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

COVID-19 Education Response Webinar

Social Aspects of Digital Learning in TVET

Organized as part of UNESCO-UNEVOC's ‘Strengthening the Responsiveness, Agility and Resilience of TVET Institutions...

ETF webinar on assessment of teachers' and trainers' performance

After the webinar on self-assessment of schools (LINK), on graduate tracking (LINK), as well as on peer visits as external evaluatio...

Civil society organisations (CSOs) contribute to lifelong learning and the development of vocational skills, in particular through non-formal learning activities and support to informal learning. The...

Civil society organisations (CSOs) contribute to lifelong learning and the development of vocational skills, in particular through non-formal learning activities and support to informal learning. The...

Civil society organisations (CSOs) contribute to lifelong learning and the development of vocational skills, in particular through non-formal learning activities and support to informal learning. The...

Building on the launching event of the ETF Network of Excellence (ENE) last 3rd December

https://openspace.etf.europa.eu/events/etf-network-excellence-launch-co…, this event aims at continuing the...

Since 2020, ETF has conducted case studies designed to investigate how global trends impact developing and transition economies, and their skills demand in specific economic sectors. A specific method...

Dual education means both studying in vocational education and working in a field that suits your field. According to the government’s decision, in dual education, students study at least two days a...

The second session of the European Training Foundation (ETF) - ETF Network of Centers of Excellence (ENE) - Vocational Education Association (PIB) project’s virtual workshop series on practical advi...

Work via online platforms is a growing phenomenon globally, including the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Various forms of online and plat...

The countries of the Western Balkans are characterised by declining populations driven by low birth rates, ageing populations and ongoing emigration. Emigration from the region has been constant since...

First KIX EAP Regional Conference: Call for Abstracts

NORRAG is delighted to announce a Call for Abstracts for the 1st regional KIX Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Conference on Education...

Our modern European societies are characterised by diversity: diversity of social background, of origin, of language, of potential. This diversity must be embraced and accommodated if we are to create...

CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS: GOVERNING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR INDUSTRY 4.0

The fourth industrial revolution is under way. Digitalisation and automation are transforming the industrial landscape and w...

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion defines the platform work as all labour provided through, on, or mediated by online platforms in a wide range...

Since the emergence of platform labour economy (with the largest platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Uber), research in this field has focused on two broad directions:

Studies aiming to...

Entering the labour market is probably one of the biggest challenges a young person has to face. For university students, particularly challenging can be the school to work transition. As a recent gra...

We are ready to share findings of the ETF survey on CSOs role in Human Capital Development (HCD) in the time of the pandemic. Implemented in November and December 2020 in Albania, Jordan, Serbia...

Every teacher needs profeesional development form professionals to learn the best. But, what about listening to some advices from a colleague who has been working for more than ten years?

I never fo...

Multiple Intelligence is a widely accepted and adopted theory that is prevailing and is used in schools for different types of subjects. 

As is known, the Multiple Intelligences Theory, theorized in...

Linguistics is the study of languages, and as such, is of great importance to language teachers. Linguistics helps teachers convey the origins of words and languages, their historical applications, an...

The Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa online webinar series connects entrepreneurs, students, educators, makers, researchers and industry experts to exchange knowledge and experiences of sustaina...

60 pages paper describes the support offered to the Covid-19 process by vocational high
schools producing masks, sanitizing gels and overalls etc. throughout the process. 

You can also find latest...

School closures during COVID-19 have left over a billion students out of school. At the same time, all countries are undergoing the largest economic contractions of our lifetime, reducing public budge...

Policy advice must be evidence-based, address issues of continuity vs. change, and promote best practices. Those were the main conclusions of an online video conference called ‘Policy Advice: new id...

Regional Development has been one of the main European Union policies to support growth, competitiveness and cohesion of the different territorial units i the EU. the ERDF is one of the strongest and...

ЕФО организует онлайн-встречу, посвященную участию частного сектора в профессиональном образовании и обуче..

Since 2020, the Rivne region in North-West Ukraine has been the site of an exciting new experiment. Building off the EU's Smart Specialisation policy, local stakeholders are working in partnership wit...

As the COVID-19 crisis reminds us, the future can be fickle. That makes it doubly tough on educators and trainers who strive to prepare the next generation of workers, or help current wage earners dis...

A reflection of the emphasis Ukraine is putting on skills development may be seen in the decision by a major international mobile phone app and games developer, Gismart, to open its latest global offi...

African Continental Qualifications Framework - publication of final comprehensive Mapping report.

The African Union is developing the ACQF, working in partnership with the European Union, BMZ, GIZ...

COVID-19 Education Response Webinar

Digital Competence and the Future of Work – Pathways for TVET Institutions

Organized as part of UNESCO-UNEVOC's ‘Strengthening the Responsiveness, Agility and...

Cedefop is pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 2021 joint Cedefop-OECD symposium on Apprenticeships for greener economies and societies is now open.

Deadline for abstract submission...

Tink, Technology and Human Colleges is an applied technology mid to high school in Turkey. Based on an in house designed curriculum and e-learning platform, Tink has converted 21st-century skills trai...

Please have a look at statistics on digital learning skills

Academia has never experienced a faster pace of change.

We are convinced that the future belongs to those institutions that are nimble enough to stay in front of the wave of change and, more importa...

The ETF Network for Excellence (ENE) - was established in February 2020 already has more than 90 members in EU neighboring countries - recognises the growing strategic role vocational education and tr...

On 4/03/2021, the event “Supporting young job seekers in the recovery period” was held online. The webinar, organised by the European Network of Public Employment Services, focused on the effort m...

In order to recognise lifelong learning it is important to have the right tools. Learning is moving out of class room on-line and in the workplace. With more and more emphasis on personalised path...

Launch of the 2021 Regional Report on Inclusion and Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia  

Building on the theme of the 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Rep...

The Torino Process ETF assessment for Palestine is available online in the ETF web page at the following link: 

https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publications/tr…

The Europea...

The Torino Process ETF assessment for Jordan is available online on the ETF web page at the following link: 

https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publications/tr…

The European T...

We are proud to announce that a new ETF study on Youth in SEMED is now available on the ETF website, at the following link:

Youth in transition in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean: Identifying...

In the first cycle of virtual coaching sessions of the ETF-ENE-PIB (the Vocational Education Association, Latvia) PIB representatives shared their experience in terms of developing career education pl...

In August 2020, the European Training Foundation in partnership with Omnia,  launched a baseline study analysing what and how Centre’s of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) autonomy is operationalized a...

The Digital Needs Analysis Tool for Teachers (DNATT) pilot aims to develop and test a self-assessment process to identify and analyse the digital competences of teachers in five South Eastern Europe c...

Registration and agenda of the webinar are available at:

The EntreComp Playbook - EUROCHAMBRES

What is the EntreComp Playbook?

The EntreComp Playbook is an innovative collection of practices...