Although successfully piloted in a variety of national and European projects and initiatives, the application of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and the European Creditsystem within VET (ECVET) principles into the different European vocational education and training practices was a challenging task that required facilitation and support in order to overcome existing misconceptions and uncertainty towards these European transparency instruments at a practical VET level. It was the euVETsupport projects major aim to facilitate the application of these instruments’ principles in VET praxis and therefore to lay ground for the further integration of these instruments into the European countries VET praxis with a special emphasis on the transport and logistics sector.

Since 2006 the Training and Skills Development working group of the Social Dialogue Committee for the Postal Sector had, by means of a project funded by the European Commission, conducted analysis and collected best practices to verify the level of implementation of the 2006 ‘Joint Declaration on Training and Skills Development in the Postal Sector’, giving particular attention to the skills and jobs needed in the changing industrial sector.

The road transport sector created more than 5 million jobs and a turnover of about 432,331million € in 2011 (Statistical Pocketbook (2011, EC). However, the current economic crisis is affecting the sector considerably. Therefore, an adequately trained workforce comprising the relevant knowledge, skills and competences required on the labour market are necessary.

3s was part of a consortium (lead by ICF GHK) providing support to the ECVET Users’ group and its working group.

The aim of the European BE-TWIN 2 project was to support the joint and coherent implementation of ECVET and ECTS in order to promote transnational and horizontal mobility of learners. 

This project aimed to explore how ECVET instruments can be used for enhancing the quality of compulsory internships in Austrian VET schools and colleges.

The European Network of Reference and Expertise in Vocational Education and Training (in short ReferNet) was set up by Cedefop (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training), in oder to meet the rising demand for information which is required for the comparison of current developments and political procedures in EU member countries.

This project aimed to provide an overview of existing training programmes in the field of voluntary  non-school youth work and to develop a set of mininum quality standards for these training programmes.

The ‘Analysis of the Continuing Vocational Training and Adult Education Surveys’ project aimed to provide a comprehensive panorama of continuing vocational education in Europe, exploring the newly available waves of the two most important surveys in this field (Continuing Vocational Training Survey 4 and Adult Education Survey 2).

The overall aim of the ICT-DRV project is to enhance professional drivers I/CVET in Europe with the means of technology-based training under special consideration of computer-based distance learning and simulator-based training approaches.