ETF Yearbook

ETF Yearbook: Social Partners in Vocational Education and Training

This annual publication features articles by ETF staff on the role of social partners in vocational education and training, life-long learning and active labour market policies.

Short description:

The focus of this yearbook is social partnerships and their role in VET, life-long learning and active labour market policies. It contains a series of articles by ETF staff which crystallise lessons learned and their thoughts about the future, as follows:

• ‘A conceptual analysis of the social partners – genealogy, structures and examples of good practice’ by Søren Nielson

• ‘The European platform: A launch pad for innovation’ by MEP Britta Thomsen

• ‘How does social partnership work in practice in the European Union?’ by Petri Lempinen

• ‘A model for developing and optimising the effectiveness of social partnership in transition countries’ by Madlen Serban

• ‘Social dialogue and modes of cooperation in education and training in the Western Balkans and Turkey’ by Evgenia Petkova

• ‘The voice of social partners in the development of national qualifications frameworks’ by Jean-Marc Castejon and Borhène Chakroun

• ‘The new skills agenda: Developing short-cycle tertiary vocational education and training in partnerships for the future’ by Rosita Van Meel and Ulrike Damyanovic

• ‘Flexicurity: The need for strong social partners versus the reality in middle-income countries’ by Lizzi Feiler

• ‘Capacity development of social partners – can peer learning become a resourceful tool?’ by Margareta Nikolovska and Arjen Vos

• ‘Conclusion: Future scenarios for social partnership – the relevance of an industrial age social structure in the globalised knowledge economy’ by Søren Nielson and Xavier Matheu de Cortada.

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