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Last October Network of Networks held its fourth webinar, focused on how vocational education contributes to regional development, taking the Osnabrück Declaration as the thread of the webinar. The keynote speaker, Perttu Pölönen, opened the event. Mr. Pölönen is a Finnish futurist, inventor and author. He shared with us his view on the competences of the...

Transparency among VET systems and qualifications in Europe is essential to understand what we mean when we talk about VET in different countries. It´s always a challenge to understand which is the correspondance between our qualifications and qualifications in other countries and indeed this has been an exercise we´ve done and keep doing within Network...

According to the European Commission, despite all the differences, there are four common elements to each Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE): Learner centred approaches.Provision of several services in addition to initial training: training for workers, training for the unemployed, consultancy services, entrepreneurship services, etc.Alignment with regional strategies. RIS3 is mentioned several times.Collaboration with the key agents...

After spending over 30 years working in education and training and having witnessed the rise and fall of previous grand plans for economic growth and inclusion, it is tempting to view the Osnabrück Declaration with a degree of scepticism if not cynicism. However, forever an optimist, I offer the following observations.  Describing itself as an ambitious roadmap for...

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