Publications

Madlen Serban - New ETF Director will combine vision, pragmatism and team work Country profile: Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz training to go further afield European Union looks to the East: Stronger relations with Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucausus Joining Minds for Armenian Education: Reform initiative sees danish seeds sprout in Armenia

This policy briefing examines the experience gained through an ETF-funded project focussing on vocational education and training supported income generation activities. The approach to poverty alleviation builds on existing vocational training structures in rural areas of Central Asia. Community development approaches are used to enhance skills, while costly and donor-dominated interventions are avoided.

This report is the outcome of a project, “Black Sea Labour Market Reviews”, which was initiated and funded by the European Training Foundation (ETF) to collect information and analysis of selected labour market and related human capital issues in six countries of the Black Sea region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).

We need a reform of minds - Ondřej Liska, lead education minister of the Czech presidency talks to the ETF about the importance of learning to the development of Europe's human capital. Country Focus: Morocco - the outward looking Moroccan economy within the framework of globalisation. Fifteen years of learning - the European Training Foundation celebrates a decade and a half of development. Euroepean Qualifications Framework - Contributing to a global trend in education.