In the course of the Erasmus + project ‘Exploring experience and good practices in the implementation of European policies and instruments to support Lifelong Learning’, eight VET (Vocational Education and Training) experts from Bulgaria visited several institutions and organisations in Vienna between May 8 and May12 for finding out more about the Austrian VET system.
The 102/2017 edition of the ‛OeAD news‘ (Austrian Agency for International Mobility and Cooperation in Education, Science and Research) is related to the 2017 Erasmus jubilee.
The 2016 update of the European Inventory on validation of non-formal and informal learning provides a unique record on how validation is being used at national, regional and local level in Europe.
The PLA was organised by the ECVET secretariat (with 3s as partner) and will take place in Larnaca, Cyprus, 9-10 March 2017.
The conference was organised in the framework of the Erasmus+ project ‘Promoting and Implementing Quality Assurance in Higher Vocational Education and Training’ (QA HiVETnet).
The workshop provided an opportunity to reflect on initial findings from the ongoing Cedefop study on ‘The changing nature and role of vocational education and training in Europe’.
The key objective of this study is to contribute to better understanding of the comparability of qualifications from initial vocational education and training (IVET), assigned to levels 3 and 4 of the European qualifications framework (EQF) through the respective national qualifications frameworks (NQFs).
3s research laboratory is a Vienna-based research and consultancy firm working in the fields of cross-country comparative research on education systems and labour markets. We are looking for volunteers to contribute to a recently started project on mobility in vocational education and training.
The first meeting of the SPREAD project partners took place on 12 and 13 December 2016.
The ECVET Magazine No. 27, which provides an update on current developments related to the ‘European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training’, is now available for download on the ECVET Secretariat website.