The winners were announced of the VET Excellence Awards 2018, an important event at this year's celebration of European Vocational Skills Week. Joanna Żebrowska won in the "Teacher and Trainer" category, the only representative of Poland nominated to this prestigious competition by the European Commission.
We invite you to watch a short film about the challenges relating to the dynamically changing reality facing vocational education and training. The film was prepared by CEDEFOP.
New report „Proposed Models of Including Non-formal Sector Qualifications in National Qualifications Frameworks” presented.
Report is based on an in-depth analysis of seven countries about the process of including qualifications outside of formal education in NQF-based systems, as well as discussions with experts and stakeholders.
The publication is the result of a 2 ½ year project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme: Developing organisational and financial models for including non-formal sector qualifications in National Qualifications Frameworks - NQF-in.
Project partners included national qualifications systems experts from Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Ireland, Poland and Scotland.
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More than 700 events in 45 countries - this is what the next edition of the European Vocational Skills Week will look like, to promote and improve the perception of vocational education and training in Europe.
A conference organised by IBE entitled Validation in the Integrated Qualifications System − from assumptions to practice took place on October 16. The conference was attended by representatives of the Ministry of National Education, awarding bodies and sectoral organisations, as well as many others. The speakers and participants discussed their experiences relating to validation.
CEDEFOP has presented a new tool - the European Skills Index (ESI), which aims to monitor and compare activities relating to the development of skills undertaken by individual EU countries.
September 2018 marks the start of the UniVet project (University or Vocational Education and Training), funded by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships Programme.
Cedefop has just published a report entitled "Guidance and outreach for inactive and unemployed - Poland" prepared within the ReferNet project.
The report presents the activities conducted to reach vulnerable groups affected by unemployment and inactivity, in particular young adults not in employment, education or training (NEET) and adults experiencing long-term unemployment (LTU). Two examples of outreach practices were chosen for an in-depth presentation: the activities of the Voluntary Labour Corps and the development of social cooperatives.
This research paper was prepared as a part of the CEDEFOP project The changing nature and role of VET (2016-18), as the third publication in a series. It presents the changes in European VET systems during the past two decades in a wide socio-economic context.
The research paper is accompanied by case studies of changes in the VET systems of 10 countries, including the case of the Polish VET system.
