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1 February 2010 - A new mandate, a new strategy and a new work programme. These significant developments for the ETF are now accompanied by a new brand - a new logo and a new strapline. |
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28 January 2010 - The ETFs work during 2009 and the planned activities for 2010 were endorsed by the Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs at their meeting on 27 January. In particular the MEPs appreciate the newly developed contacts and increased communication with the ETF through three new European Parliament representatives on the ETF Governing Board. |
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22 October 2009 - European Development Days (EDD) inn Stockholm (22-24 October) are Europe’s foremost platform for discussion and exchange on global challenges in key areas such as governance, climate change, international finance, trade, education and human and social rights. The EED hosts some 5,000 participants from every continent, representing over 1,200 organisations in the development community, including the ETF. |
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1 July 2009 - The new ETF director Madlen Serban, who took up her post on July intends to combine vision, pragmatism and team work. In a first interview published in the ETF magazine Live & Learn, Madlen Serban explains how a life spent wearing many professional hats has brought her to become the new director of the European Training Foundation and what her vision for the organisation will be. |
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11 May 2009 - Thousands of citizens took part in the Europe Day celebrations on 9 May in Turin. The launch of the photo exhibition "Turin is Europe. Europe in Turin" in the city centre received a lot of interest, and in the evening around 2000 people attended a gala concert of Beethoven's ninth symphony, organised jointly by the Teatro Regio di Torino and the ETF. |
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8 May 2009 - pose of the Eastern Partnership launched at the Prague summit on 7 May is to promote democratic and market-oriented reforms, to increase prosperity and strengthen stability, bringing lasting and palpable benefits to the citizens of all participating countries. In its Work Programme 2009, the ETF has already prepared initiatives to support this partnership. |
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8 May 2009 - More than one hundred local photographers have during the last weeks documented that the home town of the ETF, Turin, is Europe - and Europe is Turin.
A total of 180 photos were submitted to the photo contest and on the occasion of the Europe Day on 9 May, a jury selected the best photo taken by Marco Carulli, Turin. |
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7 May 2009 - On Saturday 9 May the ETF will celebrate its 15th anniversary with the citizens of Torino. From early morning to late evening, the special day will be marked by a number of activities in the capital of Piedmont: In the morning a big photo exhibition and a spectacular globe will be launched in the Torino city centre and the festivities close in the evening with a gala concert at the Lingotto concert hall. |
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16 April 2009 - Madlen Serban, 52, Director of the National Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Romania, has been appointed as the next Director of the European Training Foundation. |
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23 March 2009 - As the world slides into a crisis that affects employability around the globe, education and training continue to climb up the ranking of policy priorities everywhere. The European Training Foundation (ETF) is preparing for a greater demand on its expertise in human capital development in some of the prime partner countries of the EU, ETF Director Muriel Dunbar states in an interview published in the latest issue of the Parliament Magazine |
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3 March 2009 - The European Parliament on Monday 2 March designated three European experts as observers for the Governing Board of the ETF. The nominations follow the change of the ETFs governance introduced by the ETF's recast regulation in January |
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20 January 2009 - Jean Lambert, a former teacher from London and Green MEP since 1999, visited yesterday the European Training Foundation in order to "to learn more" on ETF's activities in its 29 partner countries. "We should link education, training and climate protection. Climate protection is a collective responsability and education plays a key role in that process", she says in this interview. |
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15 January 2009 - Europe's Education Commissioner Ján Figel’ on qualifications frameworks: "dynamis in education is valuable for internal development". |
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15 January 2009 - The 16 December 2008 saw the second reading in the European Parliament of the vote on the ETF's recast regualtion. Europe's Education Commissioner Ján Figel’ is enthusiastic about the role the ETF can play given its new mandate. |
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15 January 2009 - Following over two years of intensive work and negotiations between the EU Institutions, the European Parliament on 16 December 2008 unanimously agreed to strengthen the EU’s external support in education and training by adopting a new, stronger mandate for the ETF. |
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15 January 2009 - On 16 December 2008, the European Parliament unanimously agreed on the common position for the ETF recast regulation |
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16 December 2008 - A large majority of the European Parliament today voted to strengthen the EU’s external support in education and training by adopting a new, stronger mandate for the European Training Foundation (ETF). |
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4 December 2008 - The ETF Governing Board on 27 November adopted the ETF Work Programme 2009 and its related budget. The overall objectives of the ETF's 2009 Work Programme are to support the European Commission in the development and deployment of external assistance and to support the continuing development of partner country capacities of human capital development |
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21 November 2008 - The European Council on 21 November has given the ETF mandate to foster lifelong guidance in third countries and to further developing activities on the anticipation of future skills needs and skills mismatches. The Council conclusions were prepared during the French 2008 Presidency and adopted by the Council on Education, Youth and Culture. |
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10 September 2008 - To coordinate relations between the EU Institutions in Brussels and the headquarters in Turin, ETF has as of 1 September appointed Marleen Voordeckers, former Head of the Tempus Department, as liaison officer. |
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30 June 2008 - The transfer of the Tempus programme back to Brussels marks the end of more than 13 years of European Training Foundation support to cooperation between universities in the European Union and the countries surrounding it. With the start of the fourth phase of the programme, the work of the department in Turin will be taken over by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in Brussels. |
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17 June 2008 - The ETF Governing Board (GB) adopted the agency’s Annual Report for 2007. GB members, from 30 countries, asked for it to be forwarded, together with its Assessment and Analysis, to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Court of Auditors. |
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3 June 2008 - The first EQF implementation conference will gather some 230 representatives of national authorities, social partners, industry sectors and stakeholders' organisations in Brussels on 3-4 June 2008. ETF Director Muriel Dunbar chairs a workshop on how EQF can link vocational education and higher education. |
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26 May 2008 - An international summer school on “Migration – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe” jointly organised by the UN, University of Turin and the ETF will take place in Turin from Monday 8 to Friday 19 September. The summer school offers an intensive programme to study EU migration policies, skills development for legal migration and legal status and rights of migrants. |
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29 January 2008 - The proposal by the European Commission to broaden the mandate of the ETF to cover human resources development in a lifelong learning context - and expand the ETF's geographical scope - is strongly supported by the members of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. |
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18 December 2007 - The European Parliament, on Thursday 13 December 2007, endorsed the EU's overall budget for 2008 of 120 billion euro, including 17.984.000 euro for the ETF. |
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20 November 2007 - The ETF Governing Board on 20 November 2007 adopted the ETF Work Programme 2008 and its related budget. The overall objectives of the ETF's 2008 Work Programme are to support the European Commission in the development and deployment of external assistance and to support the continuing development of partner country capacities of human resouces development. |
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12 November 2007 - With an area that stretches from Iran to to the Cook Islands and from Mongolia to New Zealand to cover, the UNESCO office for the Asia Pacific region has a huge job on its hands. Derek Elias is a Programme Specialist for Technical Vocational and Training and Education for Sustainable Development at the UNESCO Regional Office for Education managed to fit in a visit to the ETF on a rare trip to Europe. |
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7 November 2007 - Bernard Lehideux, Member of the European Parliament, today met the ETF Director, Muriel Dunbar, the ETF management and experts to exchange views on the ETF recast Regulation proposed by the European Commission. The regulation determines the work of the ETF, and on behalf of the Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committte, Bernard Lehideux is preparing a report on the new proposal for the European Parliament. |
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9 October 2007 - This year’s ETF yearbook focuses on practical tools that promote quality in VET in transition countries such as national qualification frameworks, teacher and trainer development and key competences. |
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27 September 2007 - ETF Yearbook 2007 on “Quality in vocational education and training: Modern vocational training policies and learning processes” published and launched during Portuguese presidency of the EU. |
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25 August 2006 - The European Commission finalised its third external evaluation of the ETF from 2002 to 2005 and it is now preparing a Communication on the ETF to the European Parliament, the Council and the Economic and Social Committee. The ETF will draw its own action plan as a response to the main recommendations of the evaluators. |
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23 August 2006 - The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Directorate General for Development Cooperation) signed in July its new framework agreement for cooperation with the ETF for the period 2006-2008, and approved a first contribution of 300000 € from the Italian government to support the ETF project on learning processes. |
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5 January 2006 - The European Parliament, on Thursday 15 December 2005, endorsed the EU's overall budget for 2006 of 111 billion euro, including 19.450 million euro for the ETF. The budgetary authority's approval gives ETF the necessary resources to implement its 2006 Work Programme as adopted by the Governing Board on 29 November 2005. |
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