The European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) has published the EU Guidelines for Lifelong Guidance Policies and Systems: A Reference Framework for the EU and for the Commission, providing indications to policy makers on how to develop holistic career guidance systems. The guidelines cover all relevant sectors and policy fields, including employment, education, training, youth, migrations and senior workers. More...
Cedefop-DEVCO cooperation on Latin America
In November and December Cedefop welcomed three visiting groups in connection with its conferences on globalisation of vocational education and training (VET) and on maximising skills for jobs and jobs for skills.
Layla El Khadraoui from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) visited Cedefop to learn about its work on the formulation of the forthcoming EU regional VET programmes for Latin America and the Caribbean. More...
Maximising skills for jobs and jobs for skills in the era of the robots
More than 130 experts and representatives of governments, social partners, education and training, and the labour market discussed how technology and workplace change impact on skill needs and how to create partnerships to address skill mismatch at Cedefop’s high-level conference in Thessaloniki on 7 and 8 December. More...
Learning providers and the quality of learning delivery - Cedefop seminar
The Cedefop seminar on 10 and 11 December addresses the needs and priorities of learning providers in relation to flexibility and the role quality is playing in it.
The seminar is addressed to education and training providers, accrediting and labelling bodies, teachers and trainers, quality and e-learning specialists, learners’ associations, social partners, European and national policy-makers, and researchers in the field of learning quality. More...
Maximising skills for jobs and jobs for skills
More than one in four (27%) European employees are in dead-end positions with skills higher than needed to do their job and limited potential to grow. At the same time, 22% of employees say that their skills have not developed since they started their current job. These are some of the findings of Cedefop’s European skills and jobs (ESJ) survey, discussed at a high-level conference in Thessaloniki on 7 and 8 December 2015. More...
Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2016)

The Canada International Conference on Education (CICE) will be held from the 27th to 30th of June, 2016. The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. Submissions are accepted in English and French. More...
END 2016 - International Conference on Education and New Developments 2016

Education, in a global sense, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. More...
10th International Conference on Networked Learning

The Networked Learning Conference is an international, research-based conference. The focus of the conference is network learning in formal or informal settings in higher education and lifelong learning. More...
Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2016)

The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. More...
12th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2016

The ML 2016 conference will be held in the Algarve, Portugal, during 9 to 11 April 2016.
Mobile learning is concerned with a society on the move. In particular, with the study of “…how the mobility of learners augmented by personal and public technology can contribute to the process of gaining new knowledge, skills and experience” (Sharples et al. 2007).
The ML Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which illustrate developments in the field. More...