Additional publications

In this section you will find further national and international publications on the subject of vocational education and training which were not produced within the framework of the ReferNet project partnership:

 

2024

• Building a European qualifications map - Development of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) across Europe (Cedefop, 2024): EN
• Next generation skills intelligence for more learning and better matching - Skills anticipation trends, opportunities and challenges in EU Member States (Cedefop, 2024): EN

 

2023

• Stemming the tide: tackling early leaving from vocational education and training in times of crises: synthesis report of Cedefop/ReferNet survey. (Cedefop/ReferNet, 2023): EN
• Going digital means skilling for digital - Using big data to track emerging digital skill needs (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training in Europe and eight national case studies (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• Skills in transition: the way to 2035 (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• Handling change with care: skills for the EU care sector (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• National policies for quality in initial VET mobility: little progress made: a new impulse needed (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• Global inventory of national and regional qualifications frameworks 2022 (Cedefop, 2023):
  • Volume II - National and Regional case studies
  • Volume I - Thematic chapters
• Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training. Case study: Austria, Cedefop research paper, No 95 (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• The future of vocational education and training in Europe: synthesis report (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• From linear thinking to green growth mindsets - Vocational education and training and skills as springboards for the circular economy (Cedefop, 2023): EN
• Investing in career guidance - The case for workers (Cedefop, 2023): EN

 

2022

• Setting Europe on course for a human digital transition - New evidence from Cedefop’s second European skills and jobs survey (Cedefop, 2022): EN
• Microcredentials for labour market education and training: Research paper (Cedefop, 2022): EN
• Teachers and trainers in a changing world - Building up competences for inclusive, green and digitalised vocational education and training (VET): Synthesis report (Cedefop, 2022): EN
• Defining, writing and applying learning outcomes. A European handbook – second edition (Cedefop, 2022): EN
• Comparing vocational education and training qualifications. Towards methodologies for analysing and comparing learning outcomes (Cedefop, 2022): EN
• The future of vocational education and training in Europe (Cedefop, 2022):
  • Volume 3: The future of vocational education and training in Europe
  • Volume 2: Delivering IVET: institutional diversification and/or expansion?
  • Volume 1: The changing content and profile of VET: epistemological challenges and opportunities
• Apprenticeships for greener economies and societies (Cedefop, 2022): EN

 

2021

• The green employment and skills transformation: insights from a European Green Deal skills forecast scenario (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• Enablers and disablers of cross-border long-term apprentice mobility: evidence from country- and project-level investigations (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• Review and renewal of qualifications. Towards methodologies for analysing and comparing learning outcomes (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• More perceptions: opinion survey on adult learning and continuing vocational education and training in Europe. Volume 2: views of adults in Europe (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• Apprenticeship governance and in-company training: where labour market and education meet. Cedefop community of apprenticeship experts: short papers (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• Investing in career guidance - Revised edition 2021 (Europen Commission et al., 2021): EN
• Skills development in the platforme economy (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• Cross-border long-term apprenticeship mobility (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• Spotlight on VET - 2020 compilation: Vocational education and training systems in Europe (Cedefop. 2021): EN
• Understanding technological change and skill needs: Cedefop practical guides. Volume 1 - 3 (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• Degital, greener and more resilient. Insight from Cedefop's European skills forecast (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• How many apprentices are there in the EU? Estimates based on Cedefop database on apprenticeship and reflections on available EU data sources (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• The role of work-based learning in VET in tertiary education. Evidence from the 2016 EU labour force survey (Cedefop, 2021): EN
• The next steps for apprenticeship (Cedefop/OECD, 2021): EN
• Overview of national qualification framework development in Europe 2020 (Cedefop, 2021): EN

 

2020

• Career Guidance policy and practice in the pandemic. Results of a joint international survey (Cedefop et al., 2020): EN
• Financing apprenticeships in the EU (Cedefop, 2020): EN
• Perceptions on adult learning and continuing vocational education and training in Europe - Second opinion survey
  • Volume 1: Member States
• Research paper: Key competences in initial vocational education and training: digital, multilingual and literacy (Cedefop, 2020): EN
• Developing and matching skills in the online platform economy - Findings on new forms of digital work and learning from Cedefop’s CrowdLearn study (Cedefop, 2020): EN
• Empowering adults through upskilling and reskilling pathways (Cedefop, 2020):
  • Volume 2: Cedefop analytical framework for developing coordinated and coherent approaches to upskilling pathways for low-skilled adults
  • Volume 1: Adult population with potential for upskilling and reskilling
• 2018 European inventory on validation of non-formal and informal learning: final synthesis report, Executive summary (Cedefop, 2020): EN
• The importance of being vocational: challenges and opportunities for VET in the next decade (Cedefop and ETF, 2020): EN
• European qualifications framework - Initial vocational education and training: focus on qualifications at levels 3 and 4 (Cedefop, 2020): EN
• Vocational education and training in Europe, 1995-2035 - Scenarios for European vocational education and training in the 21st century (Cedefop, 2020): EN
• On the way to 2020: data for vocational education and training policies (Cedefop 2020): EN

 

2019

• European inventory on validation of non-formal and informal learning 2018 update. Country report: AUSTRIA. (Luomi-Messerer, 2019): EN
• Apprenticeship for adults. Results of an explorative study. (Cedefop, 2019): EN
• Continuing vocational training in EU enterprises. (Cedefop, 2019): EN
• Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks 2019. (Cedefop, 2019)
  
  • Volume 1: Thematic chapters
• Online job vacancies and skills analysis - A Cedefop pan-European approach. (Cedefop, 2019): EN
• Spotlight on VET 2018 compilation - Vocational education and training systems in Europe. (Cedefop, 2019): EN
• 2018 skills forcast - Austria. (Cedefop, 2019): EN
• The changing nature and role of vocational education and training in Europe. Berichte und Case Studies. (Cedefop, 2019):
  
  • Volume 6: Vocationally oriented education and training at higher education levels
  • Volume 7: VET from a lifelong learning perspective: continuing VET concepts, providers and participants in Europe 1995-2015

 

2018

• Apprenticeship schemes in European countries. (Cedefop, 2018): EN
• Mapping the landscape of online job vacancies – Background report: Austria. (Cedefop, 2018): EN
• The European Higher Education Area in 2018. Bologna Process Implementation Report. (European Commission, 2018): EN
• The changing nature and role of vocational education and training in Europe. Berichte und Case Studies. (Cedefop, 2018):
  • Volume 3: The responsiveness of European VET systems to external change (1995-2015)
  • Volume 4: Changing patterns of enrolment in upper secondary initial vocational education and training (IVET) 1995-2015
  • Volume 5: Education and labour market outcomes for graduates from different types of VET systems in Europe

 

2017

• The changing nature and role of vocational education and training in Europe. Berichte und Case Studies:
  • Volume 1: Coneptions of vocational education and training: an analytical framework
  • Volume 2: Results of a survey among European VET experts