On 5 December 2017, 3s hosted the Cedefop event "Financing apprenticeships in the EU" at the Fleming’s hotel, Vienna.
Background
In November 2016, Cedefop launched a study on ‘Financing apprenticeships / dual VET in the EU’, with the objective to
- provide a comprehensive overview of financing arrangements for apprenticeships in the EU countries;
- elaborate a typology of financing arrangements for apprenticeship; map EU countries according to this typology;
- analyse the performance of the financing arrangements for apprenticeships; and
- provide recommendations on how to improve effectiveness of financing arrangements for apprenticeships.
Cedefop’s work has resulted in collecting significant information related to apprenticeship schemes in the EU, more specifically regarding cost categories (such as apprentice pay, social insurance contributions instructors wages, costs for material and equipment, apprentices travel and subsistence costs and examination fees), financing instruments (such as training funds, tax incentives, grants for companies and individuals) and financing arrangements (the whole system of financing of an apprenticeship scheme).
Workshop
As the project reaches its finalisation stage, the workshop provided the platform for national and methodological experts from across Europe to get acquainted with and discuss the results of the study. The results of the discussion among invited national and methodological experts, Cedefop staff and its research partners will inform the final report and Cedefop’s future actions.
3s (Jörg Markowitsch, Mariya Dzhengozova) acted as the project’s lead partner and hosted the Vienna event. Additional project partners are Visionary Analytics (Lithuania) and IKEI (Spain). 17 experts (among others, educational researcher, economists) from 11 countries (AT, BE, DE, EL, ES, IE, LT, NL, PL, RO, UK) took part in the workshop.
Please find enclosed the workshop agenda and a background paper.