A Guide to Foresight for VET Reform

FRAME: Skills for the Future Foresight

A guide to the use of Foresight for vision building in the context of comprehensive VET reform.

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This guide was developed in the context of an EU-funded initiative to help candidates to EU accession prepare for the 2014–2020 funding cycle of the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA II). The overall goal of IPA II was to support the implementation of the reforms required to bring in the EU acquis, including rule of law, democratic governance, market standards, policies and practices, with a view to future EU membership.

One of the goals of IPA II was to encourage the development of strategies that employed a ‘sector-wide’ approach and that recognised the connections between policies for VET and other strategies, such as those for growth, employment and labour market development. The use of Foresight to develop a shared vision of VET reform was seen as a way to introduce such a new perspective.

The Foresight initiatives were carried out in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, North-Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. The results are available on the ETF website.

The Foresight actions formed part of a larger programme made up of four main components:

• a Foresight component to create a shared vision of what the VET reform programme is intended to achieve;

• an assessment component based on a Review of Institutional Arrangements to gauge the capabilities of the actors required to implement VET reform, as well as their ability to deliver on the reform agenda and their needs in terms of capacity-building measures;

• a monitoring component, founded on a system of defined indicators along with a roadmap for reforms drawn up as part of the Foresight initiative;

• a regional cooperation component to encourage mutual learning among VET policy experts from the candidates in South Eastern Europe and Turkey.

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