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21 octobre 2018

Belgium: Brussels opens Europe’s biggest counselling and guidance centre 'Cité des métiers'

HomeBrussels’ first counselling and guidance centre Cité des métiers was opened on 23 April 2018, in the presence of the European Employment Commissioner, Marianne Thyssen, and several ministers from the Brussels Region. Based on a multi-partner and bilingual initiative, this one-stop shop for life-long guidance and counselling is designed to improve access to all types of life-long learning, including vocational education and training (VET). More...

21 octobre 2018

Romania: initial dual VET

HomeIn 2018, the National Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training Development ran a campaign to enrol more learners in initial vocational education and training (VET) from 2018/19. It comprised local, regional and national actions targeting potential students, parents and the community as a whole. More...

21 octobre 2018

Ireland: supporting working lives and enterprise growth

HomeSOLAS recently published Supporting working lives and enterprise growth in Ireland. This is a new policy framework for employee development opportunities, with the specific aims of supporting working lives and enterprise growth. More...

20 octobre 2018

Norway: More opportunities for unskilled workers to obtain craft certificates

Home‘Craft certificate at work’ is to become a permanent arrangement, ensuring that more unskilled workers obtain a craft certificate. While the country needs more skilled and certified workers ([1]), many already in employment without a certificate seek education. Craft certificate at work is a new flexible pathway to obtaining a craft certificate and opening up the opportunity for more people to receive training, while maintaining their employment. More...

20 octobre 2018

Austria: digitisation promoted in new apprenticeship occupations

HomeIn the summer of 2018, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) is introducing seven new apprenticeship programmes, covering a wide range of fields from construction engineering assistant (Bautechnische Assistenz) and glass process engineering to E-commerce merchant (E-Commerce-Kaufmann/-frau). The training contents of eight existing occupations will also be modernised. More...

20 octobre 2018

The Netherlands: aligning VET qualifications with regional needs

HomeIn a move to strengthen the relationship between schools and the labour market, Dutch senior secondary VET schools can apply to join the Making room for the region initiative, which aims to develop qualifications in cooperation with region-based enterprises. Although qualifications are created at national level, this initiative allows VET schools to define learning outcomes in cooperation with regional partners, and to design education programmes responsive to regional developments. More...

20 octobre 2018

Romania: new ‘comfort & healthy footwear manufacturing’ qualification created

HomeIn 2018, the Erasmus+ Fit2Com Skills Alliance project created, piloted and certified a new ’expert in comfort & healthy footwear manufacturing’ EQF level 5 qualification and corresponding training. It aims to address the demand for comfortable, healthy and fashionable footwear in the project partner countries of Germany, Spain, Portugal and Romania. More...

20 octobre 2018

ITCILO delegation discusses ideas for collaboration with Cedefop

HomeA delegation from the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO), headed by Director Yanguo Liu, visited Cedefop on 4 September and exchanged ideas for collaboration in areas of mutual interest with Acting Director Mara Brugia, senior management and experts in the fields of skills development and adult learning. More...

20 octobre 2018

Lithuania: support for employment through validation of prior learning

HomeAssessment and recognition of competences acquired through formal, non-formal and informal learning is a significant factor helping people enter the labour market. In Lithuania, competence assessment is a distinct process separated from vocational education and training (VET) provision and performed by accredited competence assessment institutions. Currently 31 assessment centres are in place. More...

20 octobre 2018

Spain: Basque country VET innovation offers good practices for future employment

HomeVocational education and training (VET) in Spain, although small in terms of volume of students and graduates, has examples of excellence as in the case of the Basque Country. Transforming vocational training to respond to changes arising from the so-called fourth industrial revolution was discussed at the international congress Anticipating the future that gathered some 1 100 specialists from 47 countries in San Sebastian in May 2018. More...

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