Coordination between the European tools: EQAVET, ECVET and EQF has been highlighted as one of the priorities of the EQAVET Work Programme 2010-2012.

The current QUALL newsletter (as of October 2011) includes a presentation of the WBL-TOI Manual. 3s formed part of the project partnership to develop the WBL-TOI Manual.

The newsletter can be downloaded here.

The current issue of the journal (2011/3) includes a contribution by Irene Psifidou (Cedefop), which describes different methods, approaches and tools from LdV projects, which were used for testing the EQF descriptors.

MOVET project wins the PLL award for "promotion of qualification transparency".

The European Training Foundation (ETF) supports colleagues in their partner countries through a new Qualifications Platform – a community of practitioners, experts and officials working on qualifications systems worldwide.

With a contribution from Karin Luomi-Messerer!

The current version of the EQF newsletter includes a contribution on the EQF-Ref project, which was coordinated by 3s.

Background context, examples and recommendations in view of internal and external quality assurance. By Karin Luomi-Messerer & Genoveva Brandstetter.

The Austrian Conference on Vocational Education and Training Research will be held for the third time in the Upper Austrian town of Steyr from from 5 to 6 July 2012. The deadline for the Call for Papers is 30 November 2011.

The conference takes place on 22 and 23 September 2011 at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Vienna, Austria), with 3s-colleagues contributing two presentation.