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    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance

      Belgium
      Germany
      Greece
      Spain
      France
      Ireland
      Italy
      Netherlands
      Austria
      Portugal
      Sweden
      United Kingdom
      Norway          
     
    EUROPE
    About Cedefop
    Bi- and multilateral cooperation

    POLICY
    Educational policy
    Initial vocational training policy
    Continuing training policy
    Employment policy

    PRACTICE
    New training organisations and programmes
    Certification systems - Quality of VET
    Financing of training
    Training of trainers
    Special target groups
    Vocational guidance          

     

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    Last update: 26.4.2001

          ... about Cedefop

      • Letter from the Director
      • Focus on competences
      • Cedefop presents its work programme for 2001
      • The Agora corner
      • eLearning taking off in Europe: survey results provide a fresh perspective
      • Cedefop study visits in the context of the European Year of Languages 2001
      • D/A/E/GR - Initiative of the social partners to develop innovative training modules in the use of geothermal energy

      		 

          EUROPE

      • Education Council approves report on future objectives of education and training systems
      • The social side of the European summit at Nice
      • European Training Foundation reviews the EU's Phare vocational education and training programme
      • D/S - European Year of Languages 2001 gets under way
      • New CD-ROM: 'Fit for Europe'

      		 

          Bi- and multilateral cooperation

      • Franco-German cooperation to combat youth unemployment
      • D/A - New Call Centre for information about work and training

      		 

          Educational policy

      • B - The workplace is the ideal place of learning
      • F - Lifelong learning: a collective guarantee against exclusion
      • NL - A knowledge society needs up-to-date education
      • NL - Lifelong learning and VET
      • S - Education for future growth and development - are Sweden and its regions keeping up?
      • UK - Learning and Skills Council opens for business
      • UK - Lifelong learning and qualifications in Scotland - an update
      • NO - New department for policy analysis and international affairs in the Ministry of Education

      		 

          Initial vocational training policy

      • B - Vocational education takes an experimental turn in Flanders
      • D - Alliance for employment regards improved training place situation as a success
      • S - Cooperation between school and working life - the possibilities to learn at the workplace

      		 

          Continuing training policy

      • B - CARREFOUR FORMATION (CF) in the Walloon and Brussels regions
      • B - The Flemish Minister of Employment announces the creation of a continuing training grant
      • D - New action programme to promote motivation for lifelong learning
      • D - BIBB announces competition for the award of the continuing training innovation prize (WIP) 2001
      • E - Experimental training and employment programmes to identify new insertion pathways for the unemployed
      • F - The arrival of the consumer in the field of vocational training
      • IRL - Dramatic increase in in-company training, but barriers remain
      • P - The creation of education and training courses for adults with a low level of education

      		 

          Employment policy

      • IRL - Government focus on skill development
      • UK - New Deal targets achieved - 250 000 young people move from welfare to work

      		 

          New training organisations and programmes

      • D - NAKIF project to promote self-directed and experiential learning
      • E - Open learning classrooms for adults using information and communication technologies
      • IRL - Training on-line - FAS Net College
      • I - On-line degree for foreigners in Italian language and culture
      • NL - New profile for advisory body
      • NL - New arts education programmes
      • A - New school-based Entrepreneurship Education
      • P - Portugal to have an on-line university
      • NO - Norwegian Board of Education established to develop quality
      • NO - VOX - new institute of adult education

      		 

          Certification systems - Quality of VET

      • D - Public sector-sponsored continuing vocational training under scrutiny
      • D - Certificate to facilitate a return to vocational
      • D - New brochure helps IT pioneers to get going
      • NL - Ongoing debate on qualification structures

      		 

          Financing of training

      • I - Training credit card for use in purchasing ICT skills
      • S - Plans to launch individual learning accounts from January 2002

      		 

          Training of trainers

      • GR - Development of a register for trainers in continuing vocational training

      		 

          Special target groups

      • D/F/A - Overview of skilling opportunities for women at the click of a mouse
      • D - PRAXIMO database - Model Projects: 'Young people in work'

      		 

          Vocational guidance

      • B - The Walloon network of skills centres (centres de competences)
      • D - 'Europa' careers guidance hotline
      • I - Guiding young people in the world of work: a vocational guidance month

      		 

           Belgium

    • CARREFOUR FORMATION (CF) in the Walloon and Brussels regions
    • The workplace is the ideal place of learning
    • The Flemish Minister of Employment announces the creation of a continuing training grant
    • The Walloon network of skills centres (centres de competences)
    • Vocational education takes an experimental turn in Flanders

    		 

         Germany

    • D/F/A - Overview of skilling opportunities for women at the click of a mouse
    • D/A - New Call Centre for information about work and training
    • D/S - European Year of Languages 2001 gets under way
    • Alliance for employment regards improved training place situation as a success
    • BIBB announces competition for the award of the continuing training innovation prize (WIP) 2001
    • Certificate to facilitate a return to vocational
    • 'Europa' careers guidance hotline
    • Franco-German cooperation to combat youth unemployment
    • NAKIF project to promote self-directed and experiential learning
    • New action programme to promote motivation for lifelong learning
    • New brochure helps IT pioneers to get going
    • New CD-ROM: 'Fit for Europe'
    • PRAXIMO database - Model Projects: 'Young people in work'
    • Public sector-sponsored continuing vocational training under scrutiny
    • D/A/E/GR - Initiative of the social partners to develop innovative training modules in the use of geothermal energy

    		 

         Greece

    • Development of a register for trainers in continuing vocational training
    • D/A/E/GR - Initiative of the social partners to develop innovative training modules in the use of geothermal energy

    		 

         Spain

    • Experimental training and employment programmes to identify new insertion pathways for the unemployed
    • Open learning classrooms for adults using information and communication technologies
    • D/A/E/GR - Initiative of the social partners to develop innovative training modules in the use of geothermal energy

    		 

         France

    • D/F/A - Overview of skilling opportunities for women at the click of a mouse
    • Franco-German cooperation to combat youth unemployment
    • Lifelong learning: a collective guarantee against exclusion
    • The arrival of the consumer in the field of vocational training

    		 

         Ireland

    • Dramatic increase in in-company training, but barriers remain
    • Government focus on skill development
    • Training on-line - FAS Net College

    		 

         Italy

    • Guiding young people in the world of work: a vocational guidance month
    • On-line degree for foreigners in Italian language and culture
    • Training credit card for use in purchasing ICT skills

    		 

         The Netherlands

    • A knowledge society needs up-to-date education
    • Lifelong learning and VET
    • New arts education programmes
    • New profile for advisory body
    • Ongoing debate on qualification structures

    		 

         Austria

    • D/F/A - Overview of skilling opportunities for women at the click of a mouse
    • D/A - New Call Centre for information about work and training
    • New school-based Entrepreneurship Education
    • D/A/E/GR - Initiative of the social partners to develop innovative training modules in the use of geothermal energy

    		 

         Portugal

    • Portugal to have an on-line university
    • P - The creation of education and training courses for adults with a low level of education

    		 

         Sweden

    • D/S - European Year of Languages 2001 gets under way
    • Cooperation between school and working life - the possibilities to learn at the workplace
    • Education for future growth and development - are Sweden and its regions keeping up?
    • Plans to launch individual learning accounts from January 2002

    		 

         United Kingdom

    • Learning and Skills Council opens for business
    • Lifelong learning and qualifications in Scotland - an update
    • New Deal targets achieved - 250 000 young people move from welfare to work

    		 

         Norway

    • New department for policy analysis and international affairs in the Ministry of Education
    • Norwegian Board of Education established to develop quality
    • VOX - new institute of adult education