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International ETF conference "Skills and qualifications - benefits for people" was held on the 6th and 7th November 2019 in Turin. The meeting aimed at gathering ETF partner countries on reforms and modernisation of their…

The third annual meeting of the ETF Forum for Quality Assurance in VET took place in Turin, Italy, from 8th – 10th October 2019. The ETF Forum was launched in 2017. Currently 16 countries of…

The latest policy developments in apprenticeships and work-based learning in the European Union's Candidate Countries were discussed in depth at the 4th regional seminar of the European Alliance for Apprenticeships, held in Skopje, North Macedonia…

The sixth annual summit within the Berlin Process Initiative for European integration of Western Balkans states was held between 3rd and 5th of July 2019 in Poznań. Heads of Governments, Foreign Ministers, Ministers of Economy…

The 8th Western Balkans Platform meeting was organized in Belgrade, on 3rd and 4th June 2019. It was opened by Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. During the first day Ministers…

The fourth negotiations meeting on Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications in the Western Balkans took place in Podgorica on 28-29 March 2019. Draft Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications included the following professions: Doctors…

On 21st and 22nd November 2018, European Training Foundation, the EU Agency in charge of developing training and education in the EU neighbouring countries, organized a conference Skills for the Future: Managing Transition. The conference…

On 10 July 2018 the UK hosted the Western Balkans Summit in London, the fifth summit convened under the Berlin Process. The UK Prime Minister Theresa May hosted the Western Balkans Summit in London on 10 July, demonstrating the longstanding commitment to the region and to European security. Heads of Government of the Western Balkans 6 attended the Summit, and also representatives of Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Slovenia, as well as Bulgaria and Greece and the EU institutions...

On 9th-10th of July the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union organised a VET expert conference: “The Future of Vocational Education and Training in Europe“. The conference aimed to initiate expert level discourse,…

Following the Western Balkans Summit Series and leading up to the Summit in London which will be held in July 2018, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development wishes to continue the support…