ETF GLAD Thematic Group highlights innovative collaboration models in the EU’s candidate countries

The new GLAD Thematic Group pilot initiative, launched in 2025 to strengthen collaboration and knowledge-sharing in the areas of vocational education, training, and lifelong learning, has led to the production of a paper capturing innovative collaboration models in the EU’s candidate countries. The soon to be published report, titled “Institutional Arrangements and Partnerships in Skills Governance for EU Candidate Countries within the Accession Framework,” it has been produced as a result of regular exchanges of group members to further support institutional arrangements and stronger partnerships and as learning and advisory input to wider EU discussions and developments on the topic. 

View and read the about the exchanges in the following blogs on OpenSpace.   

GLAD Network meeting: Building Strategic Partnerships for Inclusive and Excellent VET – best practices from Albania and Montenegro 

A Journey from Pilot Initiatives to Systemic Legislative Regulation: Formalising VET–Business Partnerships in Ukraine. 

GLAD Webinar Spotlights Adult Learning Reforms: Armenia and Moldova Share Ambitious Strategies 

Report: "Innovative models for collaboration and strategic partnerships development" 

Report: meeting of the thematic sub-group of the GLAD Network "Fostering partnerships" 

Discover more: Welcome and highlights from GLAD - the Governance, Learning, Actions and Dialogues Community and Network