3. Publications/études du CEDEFOP - Centre européen pour le développement de la formation professionnelle
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Briefing note - Microcredentials: striving to combine credibility and agility
Microcredentials hold promise for connecting people's skillsets with labour market demand in a rapidly changing world of work.
Briefing note - From 'greenovators' to 'green' minds: key occupations for the green transition
Under the European Green Deal, a greener future is the European Union's new growth strategy.
Briefing note - Lifelong guidance for persons with disabilities
Cedefop, together with its CareersNet partners in EU Member States and beyond, has collected examples of lifelong guidance policies and practices that support the rights and opportunities
Briefing note Big skills for small companies
This briefing note takes stock of policies and instruments EU countries deploy to encourage MSME training provision and to strengthen their training performance.
Briefing note - Working together towards attractive, inclusive, innovative, agile and flexible VET
In the framework of European countries' cooperation on VET and lifelong learning, Cedefop monitors, analyses and reports on countries' priorities and activities.
Briefing note - Ready, steady, go!
Cedefop 2022-23 activities help kickstart the European Year of Skills. In a context of crisis and accelerating megatrends, the Agency continues to focus attention on the vocationa
Briefing note - Looking back to look ahead: what is the future for VET in Europe?
In the current, fast-changing education and labour market landscape, there is a need to promote more learner-centred strategies and to build bridges between initial and continuing vocation
Briefing note - Empowering teachers and trainers to manage change
The professional development of vocational education and training (VET) teachers and trainers is crucial to helping them perform their many tasks.
Briefing note - Are microcredentials becoming a big deal?
Microcredentials are not new.
Briefing note - Vocational education and training as a life jacket
Young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) are absent both from the labour market and the education sector, thus facing a high risk of professional, digital and social e
Briefing note - An ally in the green transition
The transition to a green and more digital economy and society will upend the job market and create new skill needs across sectors and occupations.
Briefing note - High esteem but low participation
In 2019, Cedefop launched a pan-European opinion survey on adult learning and continuing vocational education and training (CVET).
Briefing note - Championing the skills revolution
Briefing note - A fresh look at guidance practitioner professionalism
Cedefop's briefing note offers new insights into how countries are modernising their career guidance systems and services. Defining practitioners' role and recognising their compe
Briefing note - Shifting our perspective on learning
As the world looks for a transition to a post-pandemic reality, changes are underway in many European companies.
Briefing note - Analysing and comparing VET qualifications
Vocational education and training (VET) qualifications must be relevant at national and local levels while opening the door to international comparability.
Briefing note - Trends, transitions and transformation
The Covid-19 pandemic is changing skill needs and reshaping jobs, while challenging our understanding and analysis of them.
Briefing note - Apprenticeship: a pill for every ill?
Following the financial crisis and the ensuing economic downturn in the past decade, apprenticeship sparked renewed interest among policy-makers both in Brussels and the EU Member States.&
Briefing note - The EU's port of call for VET
Supporting vocational education and training, skills and qualification policies from concept to implementation: Cedefop highlights 2020-21
Briefing note - Empowering people to cope with change
In the face of the current health crisis and the far-reaching labour market transformations it entails, the European Union and its Member States are taking action to provide all people in
Briefing note - Adult learning and continuing vocational education and training valued by Europeans
Insights from a pan-European opinion survey conducted by Cedefop.
Briefing note - NQF developments 2019
For years, the European qualifications framework (EQF) and national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) across Europe have helped build bridges across different countries and education and tr
Briefing note - Online working and learning in the coronavirus era
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has highlighted the vast opportunities of working and learning digitally.
Briefing note - Apprenticeships for adults
Apprenticeships for adults are one of the policy solutions to the need for supporting adults willing to train, while broadening the skills base of the working population across Europe.
Briefing note - On the move but not there yet
European policies on international mobility of students in initial vocational education and training (IVET) are working but more is needed.
Briefing note - Towards new horizons
Transition is the key word that marks the 2019 and 2020 policy framework in which Cedefop operates.
Briefing note - Not just new jobs: digital innovation supports careers
It is widely accepted that digital innovation is changing work environments and occupational profiles, impacting on people's learning and work.
Briefing note - Artificial or human intelligence?
Cedefop research shows that automation and artificial intelligence do not necessarily destroy, but rather transform jobs.
Briefing note - Qualifications frameworks in Europe: 2018 developments.
Thirty nine European countries are currently developing 43 national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) which have reached different stages of implementation.
Briefing note - The skills employers want!
Analysing online job vacancies is a promising approach to identify emerging jobs and skill needs, as it offers rich real-time information about the skills employers seek.
Briefing note - Preventing low skills through lifelong learning
Integrated and well-tailored pathways for people to acquire or upgrade basic skills at different points in life are increasingly used to prevent skill gaps and skill shortages.
Briefing note - Setting sail for the future
Helping to make vocational education and training fit for the future: Cedefop activities 2018-19
Briefing note - What future for vocational education and training in Europe?
To help in shaping future policies, a Cedefop project considers different routes and multiple options for vocational education and training (VET).
Briefing note - Cedefop's European skills index: new tool for informed policy-making
The European skills index is a monitoring tool, providing a snapshot of how countries' skills systems perform. It depicts a complex reality in a single measure.
Briefing note - Less brawn, more brain for tomorrow's workers
Work environments in the near future are expected to feature more autonomy, less routine, more use of ICT, reduced physical effort and increased social and intellectual tasks.
Briefing note - Reaching out to 'invisible' young people and adults
Low qualifications, disengagement from education and training and long-term unemployment are interconnected phenomena and tend to cumulate throughout a person's life.
Briefing note - Qualifications frameworks in Europe 2017 developments
As countries across Europe are pushing ahead with their national qualifications frameworks, Cedefop's briefing note examines the question of the frameworks' added value and contributi
Briefing note - Improving vocational education and training through data, analyses and exchanges
The European Union's economic recovery has strengthened.
Briefing note - Skills anticipation: looking to the future
Skills anticipation can be a powerful policy tool for decision-making.
Briefing note - Looking back to look ahead
As the current framework for cooperation in vocational education and training (VET) approaches its 2020 expiry, Cedefop is now looking further ahead to stimulate the debate on European VET
Briefing note - People, machines, robots and skills
Technological unemployment is a recurring theme, but joblessness in the digital age will depend on human, not artificial, intelligence.
Briefing note - Vocational education and training: bridging refugee and employer needs
Over the past two years, Europe has received an unprecedented number of refugees and asylum seekers.
Briefing note - Shaping, valuing and informing vocational education and training policy
Over the period 2017-20, Cedefop will continue to respond to changing needs.
Briefing note - Qualifications frameworks in Europe
As national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) are taking shape, their benefits become visible across the European Union.
Briefing note - Skill shortage and surplus occupations in Europe
Briefing note - Supporting training and learning abroad: the EU mobility scoreboard for initial VET
The mobility scoreboard takes stock of European countries’ provisions for learning abroad, offering a wealth of comparable information and examples of good practice.
Briefing note - Professional development for VET teachers and trainers
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 clas