3s at the Dutch EU Presidency Conference on ‘Skills for a lifetime –towards a future proof VET’
The conference (16-17 February 2016, Amsterdam) on vocational education and training (VET) to be held in the framework of the Dutch EU Presidency will be focusing on vocational education that provides the fundamentals for a starting position on the labour market, and is at the same time capable of responding to learning needs that may arise in a subsequent career.
The conference (16-17 February 2016, Amsterdam) on vocational education and training (VET) to be held in the framework of the Dutch EU Presidency will be focusing on vocational education that provides the fundamentals for a starting position on the labour market, and is at the same time capable of responding to learning needs that may arise in a subsequent career.
Lifelong learning is therefore one of the three themes in the conference with the overall theme ‘Skills for a lifetime’. The conference provides inspiration and stimulation on three themes of interest to Europe:
excellence in VET, lifelong learning and internationalisation of VET.
The core of the conference involves demonstrating best practices and bringing together people employed in education and business. It builds on the ‘medium term deliverables for VET’ as adopted under the Latvian EU Presidency (Riga conclusions), and will also help implementing those.
Secondly, the aim of the Dutch EU Presidency is that the conference will also result in new ideas which could be input for the broader ‘New Skills Agenda’ as announced by the European Commission (to be published early 2016) and related discussions in the Council.
Karin Luomi-Messerer (3s) is invited to provide input related to ‘Theme 3: Internationalisation in VET’ in ‘Workshop B: Mobility and cooperation outside Europe’.
More information (including the programme) is available here