Mark your calendars for 9 December! 📅 How can #NationalQualificationsFrameworks (NQFs) boost #transparency, #mobility and support a stronger #UnionOfSkills? Join our webinar to explore exactly that. 🌍 Cedefop will present new insights on #NQF developments across Europe and showcase the updated NQF online tool, designed to make qualifications information easier to navigate. 🔍 If you work in #skills, #qualifications, #mobility or #LifelongLearning, this session is for you. ✨ 🔗 Find out more and register here: https://lnkd.in/dzck_VzF
About us
Cedefop, – the European Centre for Vocational Education and Training (VET) – is the EU Agency dedicated to VET, skills, learning, and qualifications. Our journey began in 1975 with a clear vision: to equip everyone in Europe with the skills needed to succeed in work and life. Today, that vision is more relevant than ever. As the world of work evolves rapidly, Cedefop’s mission remains steadfast: to make skills, learning, and opportunities accessible to every citizen and workplace. Cedefop delivers science-based insights to inform decisions and policies. We support policymakers to create more effective and responsive education and training systems. By analysing trends such as digitalisation, automation, and the green transition, Cedefop helps bridge skills gaps and prepares for the future of work. Our work ensures that lifelong learning and career guidance programmes are future-proof. We promote quality jobs for all, ensuring that VET leads to stable, rewarding careers with fair wages and growth opportunities. Cedefop champions lifelong learning, inclusion, and equality. We foster collaboration between workers and workplaces to remain responsive and competitive in a rapidly evolving economy. By advocating for inclusive VET policies, equal opportunities and support for underrepresented groups, we empower both youth and adult learners with skills for fulfilling careers. The urgency to upskill and reskill millions of people, promote VET among youth and adults, and enhance employability while closing Europe’s skills gap has never been more critical. It is key to ensuring growth, inclusion, and prosperity for all. The future of Europe depends on how we respond to the evolving #worldofwork. Working together with the EC, Member States, and social partners, we strengthen skills, quality jobs, and a future workforce where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive. Join the #skillsrevolution #Cedefop50
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- Vocational education and training systems in Europe, Understanding qualifications, Analysing skills and competence needs, Analysing vocational education and training policies, Continuing learning, Supporting the development of lifelong learning strategies, skills shortages, and online jobs ads
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📢 Your feedback helps shape the future of our work. 🎯 Cedefop has launched its 2025 User Satisfaction Survey, and we invite you to share your experience with our tools, publications and services. ✨ Your feedback will guide improvements across our activities and strengthen our performance measurement system for the year ahead. 📊 📝 Take the survey here: https://lnkd.in/dbUVVeZE 🔗Find out more: https://lnkd.in/dZ5pgWE9 #Cedefop50 #Skills #VET #Evaluation #QualityManagement
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What’s happening in Vocational Education and Training across Europe? ⚙️ We’ve got you covered! Welcome to this week’s #VETFrontlines recap❗ 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Lifelong learning opportunities expand at universities. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dC_-zDkS 🇪🇸 Spain – Women’s participation in VET continues to rise. 🔗 Discover more: https://lnkd.in/dc9fdzsw 🇳🇴 Norway – A pilot wage subsidy helps companies upskill employees and adapt to labour market changes. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dKJ5xuT8 💬 A big thanks to our #ReferNet partners for keeping us updated on the latest national actions in VET Ministerio de Educación, España Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og kompetanse 📲 Swipe through the carousel to explore how national initiatives are shaping the future of VET across Europe and don't forget to share your thoughts in comments 💬📩"
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📣 New call for tenders is now open! We are seeking a contractor to develop a methodology for recognising foreign VET qualifications across the EU — a key step toward stronger #SkillsPortability and fairer #mobility. 🌍 If your organisation has expertise in comparative qualification analysis, recognition procedures, VET systems and European transparency tools, this opportunity may be for you!💼 📌 Find all details and apply here: https://lnkd.in/dWQEFP8Q #Cedefop50 #PublicTender #VET #SkillsMobility #Recognition #EUprojects
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📣 New on our website today!📰 Cedefop's updated #NQF online tool is now live bringing clearer, more accessible information to support transparency, recognition and mobility across qualifications systems. 🌐 As the EU strengthens its ambition for a #UnionofSkills, this upgraded tool helps learners, workers, employers and policymakers navigate #qualifications with greater confidence. 🔎 🔗 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/dAUJdNHX ❗And don’t forget: 📅 9 December — webinar on NQFs in action: what is their potential for the Union of Skills? 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/dZFHBYcF #Cedefop50 #UnionOfSkills #NQF #SkillsMobility #VET
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Are you in Brussels next Tuesday, 9 December? Join us at the European Parliament Info Hub for an insightful session hosted by MEP Idoia Mendia, organised by Schuman Associates. Our Executive Director Jürgen Siebel and expert Ilias Livanos will present key findings from: ✅ EU Skills Forecast ✅ Training and Learning Survey ✅ Sectoral trends in green and digital skills This event will foster dialogue between experts and stakeholders and explore innovative approaches to skills and education, including microcredentials and flexible learning pathways. 📅 Tuesday, 9 December 2025 🕘 10:00–12:00 CET 📍 European Parliament Info Hub 👉 Read the full programme and register here: https://lnkd.in/dTgNecNw
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Digital skills are essential for a resilient and competitive Europe – but not at all costs. Digitalisation must happen in safe and healthy workplaces. On 3–4 December, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) hosts the Healthy Workplaces Summit in Bilbao to discuss how digital technologies are transforming work, along with the opportunities and risks they bring. 🔍 Topics include: 📲Organisational risks in digital workplaces 📲Worker participation 📲Ethical aspects of digitalisation 👉 Join the 1st session tomorrow: https://lnkd.in/d2Jh_mVu
Digital tools that promise efficiency can also lead to psychological pressure, distraction and strain. 💡It is time to talk about the mental health risks that digitalisation poses to workers. At next week’s EUOSHA summit, this session will look at how digital technologies are contributing to new psychosocial risks and how we can protect workers’ mental well-being in a rapidly changing world of work. Bringing together voices from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), HIVA-KU Leuven, the University of Zaragoza, and the Austrian Labour Inspectorate, this session draws on research and practice to address one of the most pressing challenges of digitalisation. Chaired by Maurizio Curtarelli, Senior Research Project Manager at the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). 🔴 Watch live: https://lnkd.in/d77R2hWC #EUOSHAsummit #EUhealthyworkplaces
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🔴 We’re going live in 30 minutes! Join us on YouTube for a joint Cedefop–Eurofound discussion on SME digitalisation — the challenges, the opportunities, and what Europe needs to strengthen skills and competitiveness. ⚙️📊 📺Livestream starts soon: https://lnkd.in/dQMhNsks We’ll look at digital skills gaps, support measures and how digital tools and algorithmic management are shaping work in SMEs. 💼💻 If you work on #skills, #VET, #SME policy or #DigitalTransformation, this session is for you. See you online shortly!▶️ #Cedefop50 #Eurofound50 #DigitalSkills #SMEs #EUCompetitiveness
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To ensure Europe’s competitiveness and resilience, the #digitalisation of #SMEs must be guaranteed, not left to chance. ⚠️ The latest Cedefop & Eurofound report shows that SMEs’ digital transition depends on people, skills, awareness and access to tailored support. ❗Only 21% of SMEs provide ICT training to staff and lack of awareness remains one of the biggest obstacles. Digitalisation is advancing, but not evenly and not always strategically. As a result, many SMEs risk being left behind on this road.🚧 👉 Swipe through this carousel to explore key findings from our latest joint report with Eurofound. If you would like to join the conversation, there’s still time to register for our event tomorrow: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gBt5PnxR #Cedefop50 #Eurofound50 #DigitalSkills #SMEs #EUCompetitiveness
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📢 This week’s highlights in Vocational Education and Training across Europe #VETFrontlines 👇 🇦🇹 Austria – A new study confirms that apprenticeship training is a strong investment for companies. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dQyhPd2P 🇵🇱 Poland – VET–industry collaboration is being reinforced to better match labour-market needs. 🔗 Learn how https://lnkd.in/dHgCcgk8 🇸🇮 Slovenia – A new teacher-training model supports the implementation of modernised VET programmes. 🔗 Link https://lnkd.in/dj6DQmyt 🙌 A big thank you to our #ReferNet partners for keeping us updated on national VET developments. ibw - Institut für Bildungsforschung der Wirtschaft @Educational Research Institute Center RS za poklicno izobraževanje 📲 Swipe through the carousel to explore how countries are shaping the future of VET and share your thoughts in the comments!