An EU resident aged 18-30 in education and training? Then, you can win two fantastic trips: to Thessaloniki to visit Cedefop and join the opening weekend of the famous Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) in November, and to Brussels for the first European vocational skills week in December.

New occupational analytical highlights offer valuable insights on the trends for skills as well as analyses of the drivers of change for a total of 30 occupations.

Human capital and skills development and recognition are among the priorities of the Slovak EU Presidency in the second half of 2016.

At a high level meeting on the future of vocational education and training (VET) in Turin on 23 June, Undersecretary of Labour Luigi Bobba said that Italy has embarked on a process to bring the world of education closer to that of employment by promoting work-based learning and closer cooperation between school systems and labour market needs and economic growth.

At a UNESCO/UNEVOC conference on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day, on 15 July, in Bonn, Cedefop Director James Calleja said that one of the key reasons vocational education and training (VET) is not attractive enough to young and older learners and workers is education and employment authorities’ fear to reform it and raise its profile.

More than 20 Cedefop and European Training Foundation (ETF) experts took part in the first knowledge-sharing seminar of the two EU agencies in 2016, in Turin on 15 July.

ReferNet, Cedefop’s network of institutions providing information on vocational education and training (VET) in EU Member States plus Iceland and Norway, welcomed several new partners in July.

Committed and competent teachers and trainers are crucial to ensuring the quality and labour market relevance of learning, both in VET schools/centres and in companies, and whether in classrooms, in workshops, in labs and simulated learning environments, or at the workplace.

This thematic report provides insights into how validation arrangements are linked to the labour market.

This thematic report presents an overview of funding sources for validation of non-formal and informal learning and discusses associated issues such as sustainability and accessibility.

This thematic report provides an overview of validation monitoring of non-formal and informal learning across Europe.

This thematic report focuses on validation of learning acquired through open educational resources (OER), such as participation in massive open online courses.

Cooperation between employment and education authorities and Cedefop to equip Greek people with the skills needed to find and stay in employment was the topic of a seminar on 28 June in Thessaloniki.

Find out what Cedefop does in 2'20''! All you need to know about the first European Union decentralised agency's history, work, people and goals.

15/09/2016 at 09:00 to 16/09/2016 at 17:00

Workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece

Cedefop involvement: Organiser

Upskilling, re-skilling and employing adult refugees

Cedefop and the OECD are co-organising a one day experts’ forum on the role of VET and VET-related measures to help adult refugees, including people in clear need of international protection, to quickly integrate in the labour market and on how countries have responded to the recent arrivals.

03/10/2016 at 08:30 to at 18:30

Event, Rome, Italy

Cedefop involvement: Co-organiser

13/10/2016 at 09:00 to 14/10/2016 at 17:00

Workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece

Cedefop involvement: Organiser

Skills, jobs and sustainable development: global trends, local challenges

This joint Cedefop-UNESCO global skills conference aims to discuss the implications of global economic trends and market forces for anticipated skill needs and mismatches, and the responses of education and training systems building on labour market intelligence.

20/10/2016 at 09:30 to 21/10/2016 at 17:30

Conference, Paris, France

Cedefop involvement: Co-organiser

15/11/2016 at 09:00 to 16/11/2016 at 17:00

Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece

Cedefop involvement: Organiser

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28/11/2016 at 09:30 to 29/11/2016 at 16:00

Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece

Cedefop involvement: Organiser

This first European vocational skills week will take place from 5 to 9 December 2016 with events in Brussels and parallel activities in Member States, EFTA and EU candidate countries at national, regional and local levels.

05/12/2016 at 09:00 to 09/12/2016 at 18:00

Event, Brussels and across Europe, Belgium

Cedefop involvement: Co-operator

Reference: AO/DLE/TCRs and flash TCRs on Apprenticeships/008/16

Closing date: 06/09/2016

Initial VET qualifications at EQF levels 3 and 4

Reference: AO/DSI/SPEV/Qualifications_EQF_levels_3&4/011/16

Closing date: 08/09/2016

Reference: AO/DIR/GKO/Stakeholder_feedback_services_PMS/010/16

Closing date: 12/09/2016

Real-time Labour Market information on Skill Requirements: Setting up the EU system for online vacancy analysis

Reference: AO/DSL/VKVET-GRUSSO/Real–time LMI 2/009/16

Closing date: 19/09/2016