The ministers in charge of vocational education and training (VET) in the EU Member States, candidate countries and EEA countries, the European social partners and the European Commission endorsed on 30 November the ‘Osnabrück declaration on VET as an enabler of recovery and just transitions to digital and green economies’.

The proposed regulation is a response to the request of the Minister of Development, Labour and Technology regarding the introduction of new professions to the education system

The 18th ReferNet annual plenary meeting took place virtually on 2-3-4 December 2020.

Forecasts on the skills needs for individual European Union countries, including Poland, were published on the Cedefop website. The forecast is for the period of 2019-2030.

The skills that a person develops in the course of life depend on many factors. One of them is the functioning of the education and learning system in a given country. Education, training and labour market policies should respond to the needs of each country's economies and societies.

Cedefop announced the results of the #CedefopPhotoAward 2020 competition. The winners were students of vocational schools from Poland, Greece, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.