ReferNet
ReferNet er et europeisk nettverk som samler inn og deler informasjon om fag- og yrkesopplæring i Europa. ReferNet består av EUs medlemsland, samt Norge og Island. HK-dir er Norges representant i nettverket.
I ReferNet utarbeider vi en rekke rapporter om norsk fag- og yrkesopplæring. Rapportene er på engelsk og gir god innsikt vårt yrkesutdanningssystem – til nytte for norske og internasjonale målgrupper.

Dette er de viktigste produktene fra ReferNet:
VET in Europe Norway: Denne rapporten er en systembeskrivelse av norsk fag- og yrkesopplæring, og vi oppdaterer den regelmessig. Rapporten gir en grundig oversikt over hvordan fag- og yrkesopplæringen vår er organisert, og inkluderer også korte beskrivelser av fagskolene, mesterbrevutdanningen og høyere utdanning.
Policyrapport: Her beskriver vi vår nasjonale politikkutvikling på yrkesopplæringsfeltet, sett i lys av målsettingene i det europeiske samarbeidet. Rapporten oppdateres årlig. Alle deltakerlandene utvikler sine nasjonale policyrapporter. EU-byrået Cedefop oppsummerer funnene og resultatene brukes til å utvikle EUs politikk innen fag- og yrkesopplæring.
Spotlights: Dette er konsise og omfattende øyeblikksbilder av videregående fag- og yrkesopplæring i EU-landene, Island og Norge.
Tematiske artikler komplementerer den generelle informasjonen i systembeskrivelsen. Årlig skriver vi flere artikler om temaer som EU-formannskapet prioriterer. Hvilke temaer som er prioritert, varierer fra år til. I år (2025) er minikvalifikasjoner ett særlig prioritert tema.
Nasjonale nyhetssaker: Vi lager forløpende nyhetsartikler om aktuelle hendelser og utviklingstrekk i norsk fag- og yrkesopplæring og på det norske arbeidsmarkedet. Disse artiklene inngår i Cedefop sitt nyhetsbrev, og når dermed ut til lesere i hele Europa.
Nyheter
Alle nyheter ligger på et eksternt nettsted og er på engelsk:
- News: VET teacher shortages – tackling Europe’s skills crisis from the roots up
- News: Green skills wanted: how the green transition is reshaping the labour market
- News: Towards qualifications recognition and skills portability: charting a path for Europe
- News: VET internationalisation: a strategic imperative for EU competitiveness
- News: Europass at 20: a vision realised, a future empowered
- News: Europe's VET revolution: from green skills to economic resilience
- Publication: Policies and tools for comparing and recognising VET qualifications in Europe
- News: From ambition to action: Cedefop's bold roadmap for Europe’s skills revolution
- Publication: Single programming document 2025-2027
- News: Skills forecast insights for a future-proof Europe
- News: Tracking vocational education reform across Europe
- News: Recognising all learning: the expanding role of national qualifications frameworks
- News: Tracking green trends in the labour market: how the Skills-OVATE tool informs skills intelligence
- Publication: The influence of learning outcomes-based curricula on teaching practices
- Publication: Towards EU priorities in VET
- Publication: Future-ready VET systems and skills
- News: Apprenticeships opening pathways to innovation and inclusion across Europe
- Publication: Delivering evidence from online job advertisements
- Publication: Meeting skill needs for the green transition
- Publication: Towards organisations as learning workplaces
- News: Cedefop skills forecast 2035: the twin transition and the demographic challenge drive demand for high-level skills
- News: National qualifications frameworks: strengthening transparency and mobility in the EU and beyond
- Publication: VET needs to go digital
- News: Bridging the gender gap in vocational education and training: national success stories
- News: Breaking barriers for young women not in employment, education, or training
- News: Closing the gender gap in vocational education and training: a path to inclusive growth
- Publication: What is new in IVET? Key pointers from statistics
- Publication: Skills empower workers in the AI revolution
- News: Breaking the cycle: tackling bullying and early leaving to empower learners
- News: Monitoring progress - key developments in national VET implementation
- News: IVET in focus - data driven solutions for Europe’s labour market challenges
- Briefing note - Cedefop labour and skills shortage index
- Publication: Transparency and transferability of learning outcomes: a 20-year journey
- News: Cedefop Labour and Skills Shortage Index: addressing shortages to boost competitiveness
- Research paper: Transparency and transferability of learning outcomes: a 20-year journey
- Welcome to STAS: Europe’s new tool for short-term anticipation of skills trends and VET demand
- Research paper: Beyond subsidising training costs
- Briefing note - Moving towards common policy goals and aligned progress reporting
- Research paper: The influence of learning outcomes on pedagogical theory and tools
- Policy brief: Tracking the green transition in labour markets
- Survey - How to get ready for AI in the workplace – Cedefop survey
- Policy briefs - Unlocking VET: Cedefop Releases the 2023 National VET
- Publication - What drives workers’ participation in digital skills training? Evidence from Cedefop's second European skills and jobs survey
- Publication - Exploring the emergence of microcredentials in vocational education and training (VET)
- Publication: The influence of learning outcomes on pedagogical theory and tools
- Publication: Tracking the green transition in labour markets
- Publication: Human capital utilisation, quiet quitting and employee retention
- Terminology: Terminology of European education and training policy
- Publication: Skills for people, competitiveness, sustainability
- Publication: Untangling labour shortages in Europe: unmet skill demand or bad jobs?
- Publication: European inventory of validation of informal and non-formal learning 2023
- News - EU post-2020 education and training targets: progress to date
- Publication - European guidelines for the development and writing of short, learning-outcomes-based descriptions of qualifications
- Publication - Apprenticeships and the digital transition
- Publication - Untangling labour shortages in Europe: unmet skill demand or bad jobs?
- country reports - European inventory of validation of informal and non-formal learning 2023
- Publication - Skills for people, competitiveness, sustainability
- Cedefops single programming document 2024-26
- Terminology of European education and training policy - 430 terms third edition
- Publication - Learning outcomes going global
- Eurofound launches Europe-wide survey on living and working conditions - link to survey
- Data insights - Work-based vocational education and training in the EU - more than you might think
- News - Skills matching and activation drive convergence of European skills systems
- News - All there is to know about European apprenticeships close to hand
- News - Skills intelligence at your fingertips
- News - Digitalisation affects all sectors and occupations
- Online toool - National qualifications frameworks (NQF) online tool
- Briefing note - Microcredentials: striving to combine credibility and agility
- Publication - Next generation skills intelligence for more learning and better matching
- Synthesis report - Stemming the tide: tackling early leaving from vocational education and training in times of crises
- Publication - Microcredentials for labour market education and training: the added value for end users
- Event - Greening VET
- Publication - Towards European standards for monitoring and evaluation of lifelong guidance systems and services (Vol. II)
- Research paper - Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and traning in Europe
- Publication - European inventory of NQFs 2022
- Publication - Going digital means skilling for digital
- Publication - Handling change with care
- Publication - The future of vocational education and training in Europe
- News - How much microcredentials are really worth
- Publication - Investing in career guidance
- News - Cedefop launches timeline of VET policies in Europe
- Briefing note – Big skills for small companies
- Publication - Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training
- News - Microcredentials quick to satisfy skills demand
- Publication - Inventory of lifelong guidance systems and practices
- News - VET practitioners' voice to be heard
- Publication - From linear thinking to green growth mindsets
- Publication - European guidelines for validating non-formal and informal learning
- Publication - The future of work is learning
- Programming document - Cedefop 2023-25
- Publication - The feasibility of using online job advertisements in analysing unmet EU demand
- Publication - The future of vocational education and training in Europe: volume 4
- Publication - Fostering skills use for sustained business performance
- News - Cedefop skills forecast: Green and digital transitions to have positive employment impact
- Publication - The future of vocational education and training in Europe
- News - Forecasting skills for a green future
- Call for tenders - Support to integrated monitoring of national implementation plans (NIPs)
- News - A skills revolution challenging conventional thinking
- Publication - Microcredentials for labour market education and training
- News - More employment, higher skills demand
- News - Jobs must match upgraded skills
- News - 'Vox populi' for the European qualifications framework
- News- Cedefop spreads the word with education and training glossary
- Event - Microcredentials – a labour market megatrend
- Event - Raising empowerment and inclusion among youth at regional and local level
- Event - Orienta4YEL Final Conference
- Event - Access to quality education and training: an intercultural approach
- News - Cedefop puts focus on adult learning
- News - 'Permaskilling' to tackle the permacrisis
- News - Cedefop travels Green!
- News - The European Year of Skills brings Cedefop centre-stage
- Event - The future of VET in Europe: trends and lessons for a global debate
- News - Cedefop – ELA join forces to deliver greater value to stakeholders
- Briefing note - Looking back to look ahead: what is the future for VET in Europe?
- News - Global Careers Month: solutions for global challenges in career guidance
For tidligere år, se ReferNet sin europeiske nettside:
Publikasjoner
Alle publikasjoner ligger på et eksternt nettsted og er på engelsk:
Ledig stilling i Cedefop
Alle ledige stillinger ligger på et eksternt nettsted og er på engelsk:
Events
Alle arrangementer ligger på et eksternt nettsted og er på engelsk:
5. november - 26. november Second Global Careers Month
18. september - Advisory group meeting: Citizenship education in IVET
25. - 26. september - Fourth Policy learning forum: Launching the European Vocational Teacher Survey (EVTS)
20. oktober - Financing adult learning: The role of public funding
23. oktober - Microcredentials and the future of learning
Om Cedefop - Offisiell informasjon
Cedefop er en desentralisert byrå i EU etablert i 1975, med hovedsete i Thessaloniki, Hellas, og et kontor i Brussel. Byrået ble startet av Rådets forordning (EEC) nr. 337/75, og fra 2019 er det drevet under forordning (EU) 2019/128.
Formål og mandater
Cedefop fungerer som EUs referansesenter for yrkesopplæring (VET), ferdigheter og kvalifikasjoner. De tilbyr forskning, analyser og kunnskapsgrunnlag for politikkutforming innen VET i medlemslandene.
De jobber tett med Europakommisjonen, nasjonale myndigheter, arbeidsgivere, fagforeninger, forskere og praktikere, og støtter verktøy som European Qualifications Framework (EQF), European Credit System for VET (ECVET), Europass, Skills Intelligence og European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQAVET).
Organisasjon og styring
Byrået ledes av en Executive Director, for tiden Jürgen Siebel, og styres via en Management Board med representasjon fra medlemslandene, arbeidstakere, arbeidsgiverorganisasjoner og Europakommisjonen. Cedefop mottar finansiering fra Europakommisjonen.
Oppdrag og målgrupper
Cedefop samler og formidler kunnskap som:
• Hjelper unge i overgangen fra skole til arbeidsliv
• Støtter tilbakeføring til utdanning for tidlige skoleavbrudd
• Bidrar til voksnes mulighet til omskolering og kompetanseutvikling
• Styrker veiledere og rådgivere med EU-perspektiv
• Fremmer mobilitet ved å gjøre kvalifikasjoner gjennomsiktige
• Understøtter politikkutforming og reform i medlemslandene.
Kontakt og design/profil
• Besøksadresse: Europe 123, 570 01 Thermi, Thessaloniki (Pylea), Hellas
• Telefon: +30 2310 490 111
• Logo og visuell identitet: Cedefop tilbyr logo i 23 språk, med retningslinjer for bruk tilgjengelig i “Media corner”