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As part of a short study visit in Turin, the Palestinian delegation from the Ministry of Labour visited the famous incubator in Turin, I3P which belongs to the Politecnico di Torino. I3P won a price for best public incubator in the world and they are willing, in the future to coach Palestinian mentors.

The Palestinian Delegation from the Ministry of Labour visited today the COMETA school-enterprise. They were selected by ETF as a good practice in real-life education.

Dear Open Spacers,
Erasmus+ launched a call for establishing networks and partnerships for Adult Learning providers.

The call will support projects that either:
1. help to establish new national or regional networks of adult education providers; or
2. provide capacity-building support to existing national or regional networks of adult education providers; or
3. strengthen existing transnational networks of adult education providers.

These projects should help build up the capacity of Adult...

The conference Skills and Qualifications: Benefits for People is over but the discussion WILL continue on Open Space! ?
For the Toolkit, we were guided by these core questions:
➡️how do people know about skills and qualifications?
➡️What types of skills and qualifications do they need?  
➡️How do people acquire them?

During yesterday’s workshops and today discussions at the city of practice we reflected amongst many other subjects: how do countries need to change curricula,...

?Let’s recap:

➡️ Skills as a topic will continue to be a priority for the European Commission. According to Koen Nomden at the final panel of the Conference “we need to focus on empowering the learners”

➡️ Skills and life long learning are here to stay. But the reforms take time and “we need to move away from only policy reform to the interventions at the level of the teachers and schools” -Jeroen Willems

➡️ “We will expand our work on skills and include it into...

In an era of demographic change what do we say about the need for initial or post-secondary VET for adults? What about new, very short (e.g. 2-6 months) forms of VET to give new skills to adults?

Closing Session with colleagues from the EU Commission