The mission of the association is to voice the interests of providers of vocational education and training and adult education within the European Union, and to reach common European goals on the European policy level, in the member states of the European Union and European countries which do not form part of the European Union. More...

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Enhancing the global competitive position of European countries means recognising the importance of knowledge, education and lifelong learning.
In this context the European Commission regularly delivers 'Communications' and 'Recommendations' in order to speed up the common European education agenda.
Moreover, policy initiatives regarding education at the European level are increasingly endorsed by national governments. The same or even more applies to policy initiatives in other domains that can significantly affect the functioning of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) infrastructure, like internal market policies, integration/migration and social affairs. Taking these developments into account, participation in policy preparation at the European level is as important as participating in policy preparation at the national level. This ensures that policy initiatives take into account the practical effects at the level of schools and colleges.
The ambitions of political Europe regarding the European Vocational Education and Training Area (EVETA) cannot be achieved without creating proper conditions for VET and the active involvement of the providers of VET and Adult Education institutions. More...

ReferNet National partners. More...

ReferNet is a network of institutions created by Cedefop in 2002 to provide information on national vocational education and training (VET) systems and policies in the EU Member States, Iceland and Norway. Each national partner is a key organisation involved in VET in the country it represents. More...

For the 2017-20 period, three themes were agreed to be worked on in three parallel working groups:

• learning providers and the challenge of technology-enhanced learning (TEL): en­hancing teachers’ and trainers’ e-skills (working group 1); Access limited to the members of the group
• learning providers and EU mobility: rein­forcing learning attractiveness and em­ployability (working group 2); and Access limited to the members of the group
• learning providers and migration: empow­erment and integration through learning (working group 3). Access limited to the members of the group

The methodological approach of the community uses learning providers’ priorities and practical experience as a starting point. More...

EfVET - European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training

The European community of learning providers was set up in February 2017 by Cedefop and six EU-lev­el VET associations: EfVET, EVBB, EVTA, EUCEN, EUproVET and EURASHE, in order to complement the Platform for European associations of VET providers created by DG EMPL in 2015 which provides policy advice to the EU Commission. More...

More than 15 000 education and training specialists and decision-makers from 34 European countries benefited from learning and exchange between 2008 and 2014. Study visits was a programme, part of the EU lifelong learning programme, that provided grants to education and training professionals to go to other European countries and meet other professionals for a week of intensive learning. More...

To strengthen the evidence base for policy-making in the Copenhagen process, Cedefop has gathered research to examine VET policy priorities in its fourth report on VET research ‘Modernising vocational education and training’. More...