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Highlight from Vienna

The third edition of the European Vocational Skills Week, organised in cooperation with the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU took place in Vienna between 5 and 9 November 2018. The Week aimed to promote VET as a way to help young and adult learners discover their talents.

Over 1800 national, regional and local events and activities were organised for the third edition of the European Vocational Skills Week. Events and activities have taken place in 45 countries including all EU Member States and 17 non-EU countries.

Watch our highlights video featuring the events and activities that took place in Vienna during 5-9 November, along with key campaign statistics and results.

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Over 80 partner and national representatives from ReferNet’s 30 countries took part in the Cedefop network’s 16th annual plenary meeting, including Malta, in Thessaloniki from 21 to 23 November.

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/news-and-press/news/record-attendance-2018-refernet-plenary-meeting?fbclid=IwAR0OGfDLtkM8ulkUyAIjinhgKdwDNL_e7XG40EXlbzcEQEj9mOlZDAZozN0

Refernet Malta attends the referent annual plenary meeting 2018 amongst the subjects being discussed, digitalization and the future of work.

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/events-and-projects/events/refernet-annual-plenary-meeting-2018-0

Vocational Skills Week 2018

Programme of Events

EPALE Awards

The Epale Awards ceremony was held recently. The award ceremony set out to acknowledge the work being done in the area of adult education in Malta.

Vocational Skills Week

The Vocational Skills Week in Malta will be inaugurated on Tuesday 6th November 2018 (Monday 5th November 2018 is a holiday) by the Minister for Education and Employment, Hon. Evarist Bartolo in a press conference at 9.15 with the following agenda:

Agenda for Press Conference on Tues 6th Nov at 9.15 – 9.45:

- Introduction: Stephen Cachia, Director General, Department for Curriculum, Lifelong Learning & Employability
- The VET Skills Week: Dr Francis Fabri, Permanent Secretary within the Ministry for Education and Employment
- Message by Hon Evarist Bartolo , Minister for Education and Employment
- Kick off Treasure Hunt in Valletta by students

Link to Press Release

The future of vocational education and training in Europe

The Austrian Presidency recently organised a conference of the future of vocational education and training in Europe.

One of the key challenges currently observed at the European level is the renewal of the strategic frameworks and target systems of Education and Training 2020 and to rethink the mechanisms of the European cooperation. The continuation of a strong cooperation between the Member States is a prerequisite for coping with the current challenges shared by the twenty-eight historically grown European VET systems and for realizing a shared vision. For further information please click here

NEW CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF SKILLS ASSESSMENTS

The call for proposals "Support for the deployment of skills assessments in the implementation of “Upskilling Pathways”" (VP/2018/008, EaSI programme) has been published. The specific objective of this call is to support the deployment of the provision of individual skills assessments (including for literacy, numeracy and digital skills) for low skilled / low qualified adults. The call is targeting national and/or regional authorities in Member States and other EaSI participating countries (if they so wish) and aims to support the implementation of the Recommendation on Upskilling Pathways. The total budget earmarked for the EU co-financing (max 80%) of projects under this call is estimated at EUR 1 500 000. The deadline for submitting proposals is 13/07/2018. The starting date of the action should be indicatively November 2018 – January 2019. The project's duration should indicatively be between 12 months and 24 months. A webinar to present the call in details and reply questions from potential applicants will be held in English on 29 May from 15h to 17h (Brussels time). To register to this webinar and for any further information potential applicants should write to empl-vp-2018-008@ec.europa.eu.

TOWARDS QUALITY AND EFFECTIVE APPRENTICESHIPS

The Council Recommendation of 15 March 2018 on a European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships (2018/C 153/01) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Recommendation aims at increasing the employability and personal development of apprentices and contributing towards a highly skilled and qualified workforce responsive to labour market needs. Quality apprenticeships also help encourage active citizenship and social inclusion by integrating people of different social backgrounds into the labour market. The framework sets out 14 criteria in relation to working and learning conditions as well as to framework conditions. It provides a common understanding among Member States and it will support their efforts to reform and modernise apprenticeship systems that provide an excellent learning and career pathway.

National News

One of the initiatives of the National Skills council are the Education-Business Encounters, where we bring together educational professionals and industry to identify ways and means of working closer together.This is supported by Refernet Malta.

http://newsbreak.edu.mt/2018/02/03/5962/

Please find proposal for "ReferNet action 2018". Deadline for submission of the proposal is 17/10/17.

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What is vocational education and training (VET) like in the smallest European Union Memeber State?

Watch our video to get an overview of Malta's VET system in a nutshell

Call for Audit to be carried out on the ‘EU Agenda for Adult Learning’ project and final report
View Quotation Requirements

A useful tool for senior management and policy makers

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/toolkits/vet-toolkit-tackling-early-leaving

New open call tenders on Validation of non-formal and informal learning and career guidance

Cedefop has launched a call for tender on ‘Validation of non-formal and informal learning and career guidance’.

This call has been published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union 2017/S 107-214359 of 07/06/2017.
Deadline of submitting tenders: 05/09/2017 (17h00 for hand-delivered tenders).

Requests for additional information/clarification should be received by 25/08/2017. The answers to such requests, if any, will be published on the call page, therefore please visit Cedefop's website frequently for updates.

You can find all related tender documents under the following link:

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/about-cedefop/public-procurement/validation-non-formal-and-informal-learning-and-career-guidance

Mcast focuses on vocational education

The development of VET (VocationalEducational and Training) degrees in Malta within the wider context of highereducation area was the main theme of the annual conference of the Malta Collegeof Arts, Science and Technology (Mcast) held last week. The conferencehighlighted the local experience in this area and explored developments in theSwiss system.

Spotlight on VET Malta

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publications/8106

Refernet Malta in Thessaloniki for induction course

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/news-and-press/news/new-refernet-partners-given-induction?NL=62

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