Latest developments in Vocational Education and Training - 2025 EQAVET Annual Network Meeting overview

Poland hosted the 2025 EQAVET Annual Network Meeting, which brought together EU country representatives in charge of Quality Assurance in Vocational and Educational Training, National Reference Points for Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training, as well as staff members of the European Commission, European Training Foundation, Cedefop and a thematic expert. 

The EQAVET Annual Network Meeting (ANM) 2025 took place in Warsaw, Poland, on 12-13 June and gathered 64 participants from 32 countries, including 25 EU Member States and 7 non-EU countries. The host country, Poland, provided an overview of the systemic measures for quality assurance (QA) in Poland to make vocational education and training (VET) more effective, relevant and qualitative.

The ANM also provided participants with the opportunity to hear from four Network members’ initiatives, receive updates on EU policies, and engage in interactive discussions and networking.

Representatives of the European Commission presented EU policy updates on the Union of Skills with a focus on the Action Plan on Basic Skills, the STEM Education Strategic Plan and actions relevant for VET, as well as on Europass Mobility and on the Learning Lab.

The European Training Foundation (ETF) provided an update on its diagnostic tool to support self-evaluation of QA processes and procedures in various VET areas and identify and plan quality enhancement actions. ETF also presented its self-assessment tool, ISATCOVE.

Participants additionally learned about Cedefop’s studies on ensuring quality in the changing CVET landscape, and on key competences in IVET (digital, multilingual and literacy; entrepreneurship; citizenship), as well as OECD’s studies on leveraging AI for curriculum and qualification development in VET and on how AI can support neurodiversity in VET.

Lastly, the EQAVET Secretariat updated participants on the mutual learning and communication activities of the EQAVET Network since the last EQAVET ANM in June 2024, as well as shared some lessons learned from the first cycle of system level peer reviews organised in 2022-2023. 

Check out the flash report summarising the main outcomes of the discussion.