This new publication from Cedefop presents a renewed vision for VET’s future, addressing key challenges like adult learning, skill mismatches, and integrating VET with policy objectives. It advocates for a broader VET and Skills development (VET-S) approach.

Key insights and recommendations:

• – Embed lifelong and lifewide learning into all systems,
• – Inclusive VET-S systems for vulnerable groups,
• – Next-generation skills intelligence to address skill mismatches,
• – Quality assurance for new learning formats,
• – Innovation in VET-S, integrating work-based, digital, and experiential learning.

The publication highlights the importance of investing in adult upskilling and reskilling, and the need for collaboration to build inclusive, future-ready learning systems.

The publication is available on Cedefop’s website.