Vocational education and training in Europe

Vocational education and training (VET) is an important part of every society. eKnowVet is Cedefop's database with information on VET systems in 27 countries in Europe (EU member states plus Iceland and Norway). The eKnowVet database is organised around VET themes and contains three main information points:

• Overviews of national VET systems (thematic overviews) are prepared and updated annually. They describe the main features of the respective VET systems, using a common structure that allows for a transnational extraction of information.
• Detailed thematic analyses give a more precise description of each theme for each country.
• Comparative thematic analyses are being developed to present transnational comparative information on the different themes.

The themes are:

Institutional framework - provision of learning opportunities;
Initial vocational education and training;
Continuing vocational education and training;
Training VET teachers and trainers;
Skills and competence development and innovative pedagogy;
Accumulating, transferring and validating learning;
Guidance and counselling; and
Financing - investment in human resources.

Below you will find the link to Cedefop's thamatic overviews for the 27 participating countries in Europe: