The Erasmus+ project EXPECT collects examples of good practice on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in vocational education and training. The project partners from seven EU countries (including the UK) exchange their experiences via Peer Learning Activities.

A recent Cedefop workshop, held virtually on 26 and 27 November, discussed the challenges and opportunities facing European vocational education and training (VET) – with active contributions from the 3s team.

How can learning outcomes be delivered, acquired and assessed in digital VET? The 4th international ECVET (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training) conference, held as a ZOOM conference on 3.12.2020, dealt with these questions.

Cedefop (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) invites leading experts to submit papers for a reference publication on monitoring and evaluation of lifelong guidance systems and services for adults in a lifelong learning perspective. Abstract and CV are due by 31 December 2020.

The Erasmus+ project “OnTrack” aims to develop a tracking system on the level of vocational institutions, which can be implemented into the quality assurance systems of VET providers.

How can learning outcomes be delivered, acquired and assessed in digital VET? The 4th International ECVET Conference will provide answers to these questions.

In the Erasmus+ project “Mould4Plast” a further training course for plastic mould making is being developed.

This article published in the Eurispes magazine, summarises the outcomes of a working group on “Labour market information in times of crisis”, moderated by 3s expert Claudia Plaimauer and Michel van Smoorenburg of the Dutch Public Employment Service during the 15th annual meeting of the “European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring”.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently published the contributions presented during last year’s workshop on the use of big data for skills anticipation and matching. It includes a chapter on “Using big data and AI for identifying LMI in Austria” by 3s expert Claudia Plaimauer (chap. 2.1)

The publication comprises relevant experiences as well as good practices and good policies presented at the 3rd VPL Biennale .