France: strengthening quality assurance to boost trust in VET

Protecting learners, ensuring transparency, and fostering excellence across the continuing vocational training system.

France: New digital tool supports VET programme planning

Connecting VET schools, regions and companies helps match skill supply and demand. 

Luxembourg: megaLab 2025 links vocational training and gender equality

On 20–21 November 2025, more than 800 young people attended megaLab 2025, taking part in hands-on activities and interactive workshops focused on equality and diversity.

Italy: Data-driven coordination to strengthen youth training and labour market inclusion

A memorandum of understanding, signed on 31 October 2025, marked a decisive step towards a more integrated and data-driven public administration. 

Netherlands: career opportunities for VET graduates at Dutch central government

Lithuania: model procedure for skills competitions approved

In 2025, Lithuania’s Qualifications and Vocational Education and Training Development Centre (KPMPC) approved a model procedure for organising school-level vocational skills competitions.

Hungary: equal opportunities programme boosts support for vocational students

Hungary’s Equal Opportunities Programme (EOP) helps vocational students at risk of dropping out.

Preparing for 2040: four AI-powered scenarios for the future of continuing skills development

The landscape of continuing skills development (CSD) is facing profound transformation, driven by interconnected global forces including climate change, demographic shifts, evolving labour markets

Slovenia: school leadership central to competence-based VET reform

The third thematic conference of Slovenia’s VET modernisation project, held in Ljubljana on 14 October 2025, explored how school leadership can translate competence-based VET reforms from policy ob

Lithuania: EQAVET 2025 report highlights CVET quality in Lithuania

The results of the Erasmus+ project supporting the EQAVET framework to strengthen continuing vocational education and training (CVET), published in a 2025 report, reflect on the state of CVET quali

Making qualifications and skills more visible

As Europe faces persistent skills shortages, labour-market mismatches and the demands of the digital and green transitions, the need for transparent and comparable qualifications has become increas

National VET reforms: accelerating progress to meet renewed EU priorities

The second edition of  Cedefop’s VET policy briefs, charts five year

Belgium: Roofers Rally - game-based learning in vocational training

Discover Roofers Rally: Fun, collaborative learning for roofers!

Greece: new EQF level 5 vocational training academies meet local labour needs

Czechia: Short-cycle programmes — a fresh boost for professional education

The Czech Republic has taken an important step towards modernising its higher vocational education system.

Spain: new VET quality framework launched.

Spain introduces systematic specific evaluation plans for vocational education and training (VET), in line with social demands, labour market needs and international standards.

Malta: Closing the gap between VET provision and industry

The Bridge with industry initiative represents a strategic effort to close the gap between vocational education and the dynamic needs of the labour market.

Malta: forecasting skills needs in career guidance

Malta has launched a national research initiative to identify current and future skills needs of Career Guidance Practitioners.

Learning citizenship in VET: building skills for democracy

As European democracies face mounting challenges from misinformation and declining youth engagement, the European Union is elevating citizenship education to a fundamental pillar, positioning it al

How Europe’s SMEs are navigating the digital transition

Small and medium-sized enterprises remain central to Europe’s economy, yet their digital transformation continues to progress unevenly.