📅 ETF Network for Excellence (ENE) Webinar - 15th DECEMBER
CoVE Actually
Making vocational excellence happen through people, partnerships and policies across borders
What makes a Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) actually excellent? What makes it more than a name or a designation? And how does vocational excellence translate into better skills, stronger institutions and tangible benefits for people, businesses and regions?
Vocational excellence does not happen simply by establishing a centre. It requires strong institutions, committed people and meaningful partnerships with employers, public authorities and other stakeholders, working together to respond to changing skills needs and drive innovation.
The European Commission's new European VET Strategy, launched on 5 November 2026, provides an important context. Its ambitions for higher-quality and more flexible VET, stronger links with business and strategic sectors, and a stronger international dimension are closely connected to the potential of CoVEs. The proposed European Vocational Excellence Network, building on existing CoVEs, further reinforces this connection between institutional development, national reforms and international cooperation.
This ENE webinar will explore how CoVEs can turn these ambitions into practice. Drawing on ETF expertise and experiences from Türkiye and Africa, it will examine their contribution to regional development and smart specialisation, national VET systems and international cooperation.
Ultimately, the question is not simply what a CoVE is, but what makes it work – and how vocational excellence can actually happen through people, partnerships and cooperation across borders.
The online webinar will be held in English, with interpretation in French.
Please register here to participate
📌 Agenda coming soon — stay tuned!
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